Facing the 2021 fall application season with many difficulties, Natural Light Summer Festival presents a series of courses - Master's Journey, overseas training courses in fashion design. With more students' learning vision in special periods, it continues to be released in extra time! The first two series courses of Master's Journey are Design Innovation Studio and Animation and Illustration Studio. The admissions officers of top universities teach in groups, and famous teachers lead teams to visit top brands in the industry, revealing the creative secrets behind the art industry! With the help of the top student assistance force in the academic field, under the collision of multiple inspirations, the students have overfulfilled the phased learning task with a group of creative masterpieces! On the basis of past successful experience, we once again integrated domestic and foreign teachers' teams and launched the third master's tour. This time, we will focus on the field of fashion design and lead students to launch a new round of immersive industry in-depth learning trip!
Fashion Design Overseas Training Course
Overseas admissions officers+fashion designers sit in the classroom to teach, a new series of interdisciplinary courses in the field of fashion design, online+offline immersive brainstorming, meet the new creative experience of mixed media, use first-hand inspiration to land the most gorgeous creative projects, famous teachers lead teams to visit top teams in the fashion industry, and reveal the business secrets inside the industry, Count the creative skills of Christian Dior dominating the fashion industry, and explore the new expression form of fashion sustainable development!
Cooperate with admissions officers, colleges and famous designers, from textile design, accessory jewelry, fashion illustration, brand sales, media innovation Connect the art education classes of overseas colleges and universities, directly hit the employment direction of artists and designers, and take 5 days to pack the comprehensive interpretation of concepts, skills and inspiration, so as to gain a new height of comprehensive thinking awareness! recommend: How about natural light in Shanghai? Enrollment officer+industry pioneer group to create the strongest summer plan
Now let's take a look at the detailed arrangement of the highlight activities of this master trip!
1. From fashion show to retail and e-commerce
2020 is a year full of challenges and opportunities for the fashion industry. The impact of the epidemic has frustrated the offline sales of many fashion brands. The steady development of e-commerce has brought new hope. As future practitioners, the development trend of the fashion industry is also a mystery we have been exploring.
This class is organized by Joshua Hupper, a well-known fashion designer and owner of BABYGHOST brand Leading the teaching, he will start from his own experience, combine professional fields such as fashion design, fashion marketing, e-commerce platform, etc., to bring more levels of fashion interpretation to students, fully understand the current status of the fashion industry and learning content, further stimulate students' aesthetic ability and fashion skills, understand the different categories of fashion field, the differences between jobs and work characteristics, Preview career planning in advance and advance the fashion circle accurately!
Course schedule:
14:00, October 3
Course content: This course is hosted by Joshua Hupper, a fashion designer and BABYGHOST brand owner, and will prepare projects covering all aspects of fashion design and fashion business for students.
With the change of e-commerce platforms such as Tmall and Amazon in the way consumers and purchase decisions are made, it has also had a huge impact on the fashion industry, making high-end fashion more popular, and making luxury retail and other high-end brands reconsider customers' shopping habits and interactive shopping experience.
BABYGHOST has been a pioneer in this field by integrating high-end fashion and catwalk fashion with the ready to wear market through its digital purchasing experience. This course will introduce young designers to the knowledge they need to prepare for the rapidly changing market, the opportunities they will face, and the challenges they will face.
Course instructor:
JOSHUA HUPPER
Fashion Designer/Founder of BABYGHOST Brand
2. Collision between fashion and pure art
Fashion and pure art, abstract and concrete, aiming at the different extension of the two majors, explore the creative fields and expression forms that have never been tried before, unique professional learning experience of overseas art colleges, and the full harvest of immersive overseas classes. Students will learn how to transform concepts into landing ones, and reinterpret the traditional concepts of fashion design through new creative forms and media. Break through creativity, stimulate logical thinking, expand professional ability, and at the same time, get a comprehensive "big change" in thinking!
Course schedule:
17:00, October 3
Course instructor:
Echo Morgan
Central Saint Martin's College/Royal College of Art
Echo (Xie Rong), born in Chengdu, is an artist who combines performance, sculpture, printing and film production. He is also an excellent illustrator and graphic designer. He is a resident artist of London Design Museum. The window installations and art works of Selfridges in London department stores have been published in The Observer and Vogue (China) magazines, And therefore won the title of China's first fashion illustrator.
Undergraduate students studied in the Graphic Design Department of Central Saint Martin College, and graduate students studied in the Pure Arts Department of the Royal Academy of Arts. They have created art works for many well-known brands, and illustrated works for many well-known publications, including the magazine Jiaren. Her works of art have been exhibited in many countries. With keen cross-cultural understanding and communication skills, she served as a visiting lecturer at the Central Saint Martin College and the Royal Academy of Arts. She is currently an undergraduate professor of illustration at the University of East London. recommend: Is pure art good at Royal Academy of Art? Learners' online barrier free teaching gains RCA
3. Christian Dior Dream Designer Exhibition
DIOR - the most elegant and mysterious brand in fashion, 275 pieces of high-grade customized dresses, 8 contemporary top artists, and the manuscripts of designers of all ages of the brand Students will explore Dior's elegant world and dream journey together under the guidance of teachers. With the most authoritative college experience combined with the most artistic aesthetic ability, the team of famous teachers will become your exclusive "commentator". The passion of inspiration from the exhibition and works, the best first-hand materials from professional guidance will be transformed into the most eye-catching elements in your collection creation!
Exhibition site of "Christian Dior, designer of dreams"
Course schedule:
14:00, October 4
Course content: students will visit this exhibition, which will present many outstanding works, including 275 high-end customized dresses, design drafts drawn by Rene Gruwa and Christine Beral, as well as 8 Chinese artists (Xu Bing, Zheng Guogu, Liang Yuanwei, Gao Weigang, Liu Jianhua, Lin Tianmiao, Yan Peiming, Wang Guangle) Created works and artistic installations.
The exhibition is planned by Ole Cullen, which pays tribute to the brand tradition and freedom of creativity, and leads the audience on a journey of exploration to deeply understand the pioneering ideas of Mr. Christian Dior and his successors Eve Saint Laurent, Mark Boen and Maria Cia Kori.
4. "Abandoned" fashion
Old artworks, old fashion illustrations, old magazines, innovative materials+"second-hand" clothing? Is it renovation fashion? Or a big renovation of old things? With David Peck, the former admissions officer of Parsons, we broke through the boundaries of traditional clothing with subversive ideas and design intentions. Take old clothes as the design origin, create and explore, use different old things as the transformation elements and expression media, present new works through expansion experiments, and harvest new creative concepts never thought of!
Course schedule:
10:00, October 5
Course content:
Recycling, printing and cutting
Course instructor:
David Peck
Member of Natural Light Overseas Alliance
Parsons Former Admissions Officer
David Peck is a fashion designer and owns the fashion brand Miles David. He graduated from Parsons The New School for Design as a former admissions officer.
At present, he is a member of the board of directors of the Paris Academy of Arts, and serves as the vice chairman of Natural Light International Art Education, responsible for supervising and recommending the content of our fashion design courses.
David Peck served as an admissions officer at Parsons College of Art and Design in Paris, France and New York, United States, from 2006 to 2010. When he was in Paris, he also worked in famous fashion companies, such as Paco Rabane, Junichi Hakamaki and Robert Normand.
5. Workshop on Sustainable Design and Upgrading
Under the background of the times, sustainable design is undoubtedly the killer of the current collection of fashion works and the general principle of winning the offer from famous schools. In this series of lessons, we will help you to collect highlights into works!
A real presentation of brainstorming, a cross disciplinary practice and landing, a new fashion project creation mode, a breakthrough in the dominant thinking of online courses, a consolidation of teaching achievements of offline courses, and a double guarantee to further hone students' creation and exploration. Break and reorganize the concept knot of fashion design, carry out a breakthrough transformation of the original materials, reshape the definition and creation possibility of fashion design, and enhance the competitiveness of the collection of works with interdisciplinary skills!
Course schedule:
10:00, October 6
Course content: Students will explore the recycling and reuse of commonly used materials in clothing design and products, as well as those materials that are usually discarded after wear and tear, such as cotton, denim, canvas, rubber, and use the materials provided to practice this concept under the guidance of professors and instructors.
Course instructor:
Megan Suttles
Member of Natural Light Overseas Alliance
FIT New York Fashion Institute , Pratt, former admissions officer
Megan Suttles is the founder, owner, curator, educator and installation artist of Hot Wood Arts. She used to be the Deputy Director of Admissions at Pratt Institute, where she worked for eight years. Most of her personal works are site-specific installations, which she believes are space paintings. She creates an environment in which the audience can walk and experience.
Course schedule:
10:00 on October 3: Fashion Design Studio was launched
14:00, October 3: Introduction to Fashion Design
17:00, October 3: the collision between fashion and pure art
10:00, October 4: Project introduction
14:00, October 4: Dream Design Exhibition
10:00 on October 5: abandoned fashion
14:00, October 5: project development
10:00 on October 6: "Regeneration"
10:00 on October 7: project completion
14:00, October 7: Final project review
Tutor of course opening ceremony:
Chris Jessick
SVA former admissions officer
Chris Jessick is an independent artist, experimental film director and well-known musician. He is also a former SVA admissions officer. Graduated from SVA New York School of Visual Arts, majoring in film. After graduation, Chris set up his own studio in New York while engaging in film and television work, while serving as SVA's international admissions officer and marketing manager.
During his 9 years at SVA, he was responsible for the enrollment work in China, the review of international student works and scores, SVA's external publicity planning and video shooting, as well as the related work of interfacing with the enrollment departments of many American colleges and universities. Based on Mr. Chris's outstanding contribution to the school, he was awarded SVA Distinguished Staff Award in 2012.
Five days to pack the comprehensive interpretation of concepts, skills and inspiration, and get a new height of comprehensive thinking awareness! Interested students, please come to apply for natural light!
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