• Fashion terminology
• Introduction to Design: Definition and Sources of design
• Classification of Design: Structural and Decorative design
• Design process : Concept, Research, Design Exploration, Conceptualization
• Elements of design: Line, form, color, texture and shape.
• Principles of design: Balance, proportion, rhythm, emphasis and harmony.
• Appreciation of dress design in terms of principles of design.
• Designing & selection of clothing according to age, sex, season, occasion, personality, complexion and figure.
• Design Development and Design Work Sheet
• Introduction to Fashion, Theories, Principles of fashion and Fashion cycle.
• Fashion Research Analysis, Fashion forecasting and factors favoring and retarding fashion
• Contemporary Indian Fashion
• Fashion Designers –
o National – Ritu Beri, Raghvendra Rathore, Tarun Tahillani & Sabyasachi Mukherjee
• Textile Designers –
o National – Geetanjali Kashyap, Satyapaul, Rohit Bal, Ritu Kumar
1. Frings, G., Fashion from concept to consumers, Prentice Hall International, New Jersey, 1991
2. Lyle, Dorothy S., Contemporary Clothing, Benette & Mc night Publishing Co. Peoria Illinois, 1983
Books Recommended:
1. Castelino, M., Fashion Kalediscope Rup & Co., Calcutta. 1994
2. Burn, Leslie Davis., The Business of Fashion, Fairchild Publications, New York, 2006
3. Waddell Gavin, How Fashion Works , Black Well Science Publishing ,India, 2005
Links:
[1] https://jewellery.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/fashion-foundation