Harper College - Halcyon Yearbook (Palatine, IL)

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Fashion Harper College's fashion design career course is not just another home ec. course. The goal set in these classes is to design garments with a professional look for the fashion design industry. The students are taught professional methods by professional de- signers and workers in the field. Originality is stressed, thus the designs are frequently unusual and very time-consu ming. The first phase in Fashion design is to learn to work with basic patterns, hand-drafted from de- tailed lists of measurements. Students then learn to adapt the patterns to different fabrics, sizes, styles, and figure problems. The goals of any fashion being to flatter the lines of the individual body, specific techniques are learned to highlight some char- acteristics and to downplay others. lt's exciting and challenging. The students are given free rein so that they'll avoid the ordinary and attempt the extraordinary, which often will involve a difficulty in some phase of production. People in the tectiles classes design their own fabrics. This involves learning the basic chemical characteristics and fiber contents of fabrics in order to be able to manipulate the fabric for the partic- ular design. One learns what fabric are applicable to particular designs. Illustration classes take designers who are often untrained as artists and teach them to picture their designs appealingly and completely for presentation to teachers or employers. This is one of the most important skills for the student to acquire, since there must be a transition from an in complete mental image to a detailed model. Students come in drawing stick figures, and finish drawing fash- ion layouts. The fashion field isn't an easy one to get into. Many students are already working somewhere in the field long before they leave Harper, trying to gain a foothold in the actual designing industry. But in two years, students have become profes- sionals with valuable, marketable skills. r1 ill , A Qt, tg. so L ' fir- 1 f jr .- W7 , X . O .. ,fl x CD53 T kg n Vi? - X, , T filly V! M X ' TW X ff i I if ,, , rf- J I F f N i ffll! X X X e ll if-I 'iw '- O Q 2 Q , - ...,,, - W ? fi R U69 WZ? 62535

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