Postgraduate Course in Beachwear Design Online

Postgraduate Course in Beachwear Design Online

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Training course

The specialisation in Beachwear Design is a training course that aims to provide specific technical skills in the design and creation of beachwear garments, including modelling, prototyping and production with a focus on trends and styles

The beachwear designer is a fashion professional specialising in the design of clothing and accessories for beach environments.
He is a designer who focuses his attention on the production and realisation of garments such as swimming costumes, sarongs and cover-ups.
This role requires a combination of technical design and modelling skills, creativity, and a deep understanding of the fashion industry.

The beachwear designer is a fashion professional specialising in the design of clothing and accessories for beach environments.
He is a designer who focuses his attention on the production and realisation of garments such as swimming costumes, sarongs and cover-ups.
This role requires a combination of technical design and modelling skills, creativity, and a deep understanding of the fashion industry.

What you will learn

The specialisation course in Beachwear Design aims to provide students with a comprehensive and in-depth training in the field of fashion design for beachwear.

Programme

1 Introduction to Beachwear Design

  • History of beachwear, evolution and current trends.

2. Merchandise

Study of materials for a 'beachwear' collection with relevant techniques of
processing and the subsequent use of each within a collection

  •  Textiles: fibres, yarns, fabrics
  • Weaving cycle
  • Textile surfaces: woven, knitted, non-woven, special fabrics
  • Fundamental shuttle and mesh reinforcements: analysis and classification
  • Properties of beachwear fabrics and accessories: elasticity, resistance to salt, chlorine and sun,
    quick-drying, hypoallergenic, anti-corrosion and heat-resistant metals
  • Characterisation techniques for design: ink jet and transfer/laser/fock colour printing, embroidery and application of rhinestones/hotfx studs/cords/fringes
  •  Accessories for decoration: rings, knot clasps, pendants, fringes...
  • Technical accessories useful for modelling: metal sliders / sticks / hooks and
    plastic/giki/rings, para-elastics, invisible elastic bands for interiors and rivets
  •  Labelling
  • Liners
  • Certifications and sustainability

3. Designing a Beachwear Collection

  • Anatomical bases, figure and plate drawing techniques, rendering techniques and
    colouring
  •  Analysis of beachwear types and their construction elements

4. Designing a Beachwear Collection

  • How to design and present a beachwear collection: moodboard, colours, material and workmanship sheets, 'line-up' development of swimming costume series and fuoriacqua

5. Focus on clothing fuoriacqua

  • Analysis of various types of clothing (sarongs, cover-ups, dresses...)

6. Specialist Focus: Sizes
1. Sizes and their differentiation according to products
2. Sizes and their different fit according to markets
3. The Conversion of Sizes in the World
4. How to Measure and Interpret the Size of Women's High Parts

7.Specialised Focus: Head Types and their Modelling Bases
Analysis of product types and their definitions in the Swim-Beachwear and
Fuoriacqua
High Parts:
- Functionality / Occasions of use
- Types of Basic Construction
- Differentiated cups
- Types of Padded Cups
- Pre-training techniques.
- Seamless / Bonding / Free-cut techniques
Low Parts:
- Functionality / Occasions of use
- Types of Basic Construction
- Seamless / Bonding / Free-cut techniques
One-piece costumes:
- Functionality / Occasions of use
- Types of Basic Construction
Fuoriacqua:
- Functionality / Occasions of use
- Types of Basic Construction

8. Elements of Marketing
Preliminary marketing analysis on:
- Definition of objectives
- Brand Positioning
- Target Consumer
- Marketing/Communication Strategies
- Multichannel
- Competitor Analysis

Style and Design
- Creativity and Research
- Travelling or web surfing?
- The main trade fairs
- The influence of social media: knowing how to weigh up the pros and cons
- Customer Approach
- Designing stylistic mood-boards
- Trend colours: knowing how to intercept and interpret them
- Design of a dedicated Colour Folder
- How a Collection is presented to the Customer
- The selection of and relationship with Suppliers
- Awareness of material costs and consumption
- Setting up a technical sketch
- The importance in mastering the fitting
- The relationship with the modeller
- The fundamental role of kindness in building a team

 

Job opportunities

Students on the Beachwear Design specialisation course will have access to a wide range of job opportunities in the fashion industry, including:

  • Beachwear designer for international and national fashion brands.
  • Owners of independent beachwear brands.
  • Product development experts for clothing and accessories companies.
  • Fashion consultants specialising in beachwear.
  • Production and procurement manager for fashion companies.

Furthermore, graduates could find career opportunities in fashion publishing, marketing and beachwear sales, as well as in education and vocational training in the field of fashion design.

Facilitations

Possibility of financing the enrolment fee Video CV editing and updating for dissemination to companies in the sector at the end of the training course in the candidate's region of preference.

How to apply

Fill out the information request form and we will contact you within a few days. In the selection of candidates the scholastic CV, work experience and motivational letter will be considered. It is possible and advisable to send a portfolio of previous works. The examining commission, considering these elements, will communicate the result of the selection and the admission to the Course by filling the application form.

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Sviluppo Europa s.r.l.
Via Albricci, 9 - 20122 Milan
P.I. 10282190965
unique code: M5UXCR1
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Province Register Office. chamber of commerce Milan Monza Brianza Lodi
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REA number MI-2519496
Share Capital 10,000

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