Fashion Design and Illustration
- Dates: July
- Length: 2 Weeks / Monday – Thursday
- Hours: 4PM - 8PM
- Instructor: Julie Berg
- Capacity: 12 students
Price: $795
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We’re excited to help you take your first step into your future career in fashion. Don't wait to follow your passion, express yourself, and follow your dreams now.
Fashion Design and Illustration 2 Weeks Program
Get ready to challenge yourself as you learn to apply and refine your illustrative abilities when you design and create your own tightly-edited 12 piece collection for a specific target market.
Overview
Looking to learn the basics to captivate the world of fashion design? The Cut offers you a variety of two-week intensive workshops designed to maximize your industry knowledge within a minimum time frame. In these hands-on workshops, students will be immersed in all facets of the fashion business. With lectures, class discussions, and hands on instruction students are taught by industry professionals in small group settings, receiving first-class learning in a real-life business environment. Each class is 2 weeks long at 16 hours per week, for a total of 32 hours. There are no prerequesites for our 2 week intensives. Acquire the skills you need to reach your academic and professional goals or complement your current full-time diploma or degree program, or simply build a competitive portfolio for graduate program applications to prepare for advanced study, or just simply become better at your craft.
Fashion Design, Illustration & Creative Direction
Join this introduction to fashion design and illustration to develop your technical skills as you conceptualize and create a tightly-edited 12 piece collection for a specific target market. You’ll focus on high-fashion croquis figures, illustration, textile rendering, and use multimedia tools to colour your sketches.
You Will Learn:
Housekeeping
Meet your professor
Hien-Nhi Nguyen
Graduated from Kingston University London in the UK with a Bachelor in Fashion Design, Hien-Nhi (Nee) specializes in crafting menswear and womenswear across casual, outerwear, and athleisure categories. She began her career as an intern with London womenswear brand Eudon Choi and German luxury brand ESCADA in 2016, before gaining international experience with fashion suppliers such as Itochu Prominent (USA) and Ess Tee Global Traders (Hong Kong). In 2021, she collaborated with a Finnish start-up to develop performance wear using recycled coffee grounds, a project that reinforced her commitment to sustainable innovation. She also worked as a designer at Pearl Global Industries, developing outerwear, tops, and dresses for global brands including Calvin Klein, Polo Ralph Lauren, Aritzia, and Zara. Now based in Vancouver, Hien-Nhi shares her expertise and passion as a fashion design instructor, helping the next generation of designers imagine and realize the possibilities of fashion.
Now it’s time to start
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!
*All our courses can be In person or Online Live.
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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.