Fashion Design and Styling (stage 1)

Budding designers will be introduced to key concepts in fashion design and will be encouraged to develop their own visual identity and showcase their creative voice through their fashion designs.

Your young artists will explore the fundamental skills needed in fashion and textiles and have the chance to experiment with a wide range of fabrics, accessories, and textile techniques.

Each session will be led by our expert tutors to master the basic skills and techniques used in fashion design, resulting in a firm understanding of how to confidently design and turn ideas into wearable garments.

Along the way your young makers will utilise sketchbooks to better understand colour palettes and fabric manipulation as well as record fashion shapes. They’ll take part in practical workshops to consolidate their knowledge and put newfound skills to the test.

They’ll be shown how to translate their ideas using a variety of materials and professional fashion and textiles equipment. Throughout the sessions they’ll be working towards the end goal of creating their own fashion piece and using it in a fashion photoshoot.

• Explore key concepts in fashion design and promotion
• Research and experimentation with colour palettes, fabrics, and textiles
• 3D experimentation
• Fashion illustration and drawing the fashion figure
• Surface embellishment and screen printing
• Practical workshops in draping, sketching, deconstructing garments
• Creating your own fashion piece
• Photoshoot of designed garments

• Possess improved artistic and design skills
• Understand how to use a range of professional fashion and textile tools safely and effectively
• Have developed sound knowledge of colour palettes, fabrics, and textiles
• Be able to use a range of different techniques to embellish their designs
• Possess a fundamental understanding of the fashion skills and techniques required to design and create a garment
• Be the proud owner of a completed fashion piece, styled for a photoshoot, that showcases the development of their skills
• Have increased confidence in their own skills
• Have boosted creativity and imagination
• Untap their potential and talent
• Appreciate the importance of good time management
• Be encouraged to experiment and explore their ideas
• Appreciate teamwork and team building ethics
• Feel inspired by the new skills they've learnt and from sharing ideas with new friends
• Have the foundations to continue creating beyond this course

All students with 100% course attendance will be issued with an official AUB Saturday Art School certificate of attendance.

After this course, your young artist could:

• Expand their fashion design skills by taking our advanced Eco-Fashion Design and Construction (stage 2) course next term
• Continue to harness their creativity; explore our full range of Saturday Art School courses to see where their creative journey will take them next
• Look forward to the future and the next step(s) in their creative journey by exploring AUB's Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media
• Continue to develop their skills at home as a hobby

• We understand how important young creative artists are – they've so much potential, untapped abilities, and enthusiasm
• Your young artist will study at a leading specialist university – we know what we're doing when it comes to providing unparalleled courses
• We encourage your young artist to be themselves and explore their existing interests; as such we harness their natural style and flair to enable them to develop their unique creative voice
• Our tutors are industry professionals, so they'll learn from the best
• We cater for all abilities and have no formal entry requirements for this course, so there's nothing holding your young artist back
• Your young artist will learn in a safe and encouraging environment where there's no right or wrong way to be creative
• They'll learn 'by doing' and always feel fully included, respected, and supported
• They'll benefit from our incredible campus and its industry-standard studios, and use state-of-the-art equipment and software to unleash their creativity