Couture Pattern Making Evening Wear / Special Occasion
- Program Duration: 14 weeks x 20 Hours a week
- Lecture: 8 hrs a week
- Lab: 12 hrs a week
- Lead Instructor: Nargas Khabazha
- Semester start: Jan, May and Sept
Price: Domestic $6,995
Installment Plans Available
International $8,450.00
Classes Include
Introduction
Pattern, Construction & Fit
Capsule Collection & Presentation
Hand Sewing Techniques
Textile
Pathway of your career
Become a student!
If you’ve dreamed of turning your passion into an exciting career in fashion, as a designer or in production, this is your chance to bring that dream to life. Perhaps you’re in the industry and need to upgrade your skills? Or you want to develop your existing skills to further a hobby? Or maybe you’re ready to launch an exciting second career. One-on-one education with some of the most creative brains in the business and first-hand experience in a professional workshop will help you build a portfolio fit for the world’s top fashion schools and brands.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed my courses at the Cut, so much so that I now have an amazing new career path!
Couture Pattern Making
In this comprehensive and specialized course, you will focus on the intricacies and techniques utilized in evening wear and bridal. Students will learn how to draft, construct and manipulate fabrics utilizing a variety of specialty fabrics and finishes, including beading, lace work, and tailoring, as well as learn how to drape in jersey and silk. At the completion of this module, you will draft and assemble two couture evening wear designs that reflect your personal design point of view and brand.
“Its amazing how much they can teach you in just 4 months! I came here having just basic sewing skills and now I know how to produce pretty much any of the clothes I see around!”
— Tanya Kim, Pattern Making and Assembly Student
Meet your professors
Nargas Khabazha
Nargas opened her first studio in 1997 as a pattern maker for private label of her own clothing line and developed her skill for specializing in special sizes for women. She was featured in the Vancouver Sun and north shore news as a realistic designer. In 2002Nargas launched her ready to wear collection for the chic sophisticated baby boomer woman, which sold across country. She then opened her own studio on west 8th Avenue to create and control a high-end garment. Nargas has over 40 years of extensive experience as a fashion technical instructor in pattern, draping, fitting and textile development. She has supported her students to showcase their design through a fashionable collection twice a year at the Vancouver Fashion Week from 2008 to 2025. Nargas share her passion and knowledge with her students and supports them as a caring mentor to the successful walk to the runway show. I moved to Canada in 1984 as anew arrival who chose metropolitan Montreal to settle in. A year later Nargas opened her own handcrafted shore store without any prior experience in the trade, in downtown Montreal. Soon she became specialist as a shoemaker or men. Few years later Nargas’ passion for design, landed her in the fashion design program at Lasalle college in Montreal. A year later she moved to Vancouver and continued at KPU Polytechnic college in the fashion program. Nargas opened her first studio in 1997 as a pattern maker for private label of her own clothing line and developed her skill for specializing in special sizes for women. She was featured in the Vancouver Sun and north shore news as a realistic designer. In 2002Nargas launched her ready to wear collection for the chic sophisticated baby boomer woman, which sold across country. She then opened her own studio on west 8th Avenue to create and control a high-end garment. Nargas has over 40 years of extensive experience as a fashion technical instructor in pattern, draping, fitting and textile development. She has supported her students to showcase their design through a fashionable collection twice a year at the Vancouver Fashion Week from 2008 to 2025. Nargas share her passion and knowledge with her students and supports them as a caring mentor to the successful walk to the runway show.
Program Price
Payment Plans are Available
(Doesn’t include books and materials, check program outline for details)
APPLICATION FEE (Domestic): $250
APPLICATION FEE (International): $500
TUITION (Domestic): $6,995
TUITION (International): $8,450
Books & Materials excluded
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If you’ve dreamed of turning your passion into an exciting career in fashion, as a designer or in production, this is your chance to bring that dream to life!
Instructor and materials subject to change
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This program is approved by the Registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills.
The Cut Design Academy is a PTIB-designated institution.