Costume Studio III

(2-8 Credits)

Costume Studio III continues to expand the Third-Year students’ understanding of clothing through a deepening of their both their research skills and their exploration of fabric and fabrication techniques in the development of a design. Students will do an in-depth cultural and clothing research project in connection to their primary design class (Costume III) with the Indigenous Peoples Research project. The remainder of the course they will work in class on technical and detail drawings, explore fabrication techniques on the 1⁄2 scale form, and visit with New York Costume shops and Artisans to discuss their designs, for which some advance preparation will be required. Class visits to costume exhibits in local museums will focus on the study of fabrication techniques, and students may observe costume meetings and fittings by designers working in the major New York costume shops to learn about the process first-hand.