Week 1
- Various fashion careers, salaries, and educational requirements
- How to structure a fashion-focused resume
- How to look for a job in fashion
- Interview skills
- Internships

Week 2
- Sketchbooks
- Finding inspiration and translating it into your designs
- How to catalogue you ideas and reference materials

Week 3
- Illustration skills you should have before beginning a fashion program
- The difference between technical flats and illustrations
- Various mediums to work in
- Computer illustration programs
- Translating ideas and magazine images to an illustration

Week 4
- Fabric knowledge and experimentation
- Basic sewing and pattern skills you should have before beginning a fashion program

Week 5
- Stock up before your first day
- Shopping for supplies
- Insider suppliers and contractors
- International suppliers and ordering online

Week 6
- Working in fashion
- How to design a fashion line
- Knowing industry styles and terms
- The most important skills you’ll need
- Your resume and portfolio

Week 7
- A career in fashion
- Working in a fashion house, on private contract, a boutique, or beginning your own line
- How to put together a collection
- Pricing your work
- In-house and outsourcing
- Marketing your work and yourself

Cost: $350 including gst (This course has a maximum of 15 students.)

Course duration: 2.5 hours a week for seven weeks (During holidays—summer, Christmas, spring break—this course runs as a week-long camp and students come to the studio three hours a day for five consecutive days.)

Prerequisite: None!