Haute Couture
Winter/Spring 2012 Courses Now Available Online!
The Competency-Based Certificate Program in Haute Couture caters to the segment of the fashion industry known as the women’s couture market. It provides an education that focuses on design and technology used in the manufacture of “made-to-measure” women’s clothing.
The program offers students the opportunity to enhance their skills in the following areas: couture sewing techniques and embellishments, couture garment construction, and couture design.
Students focus on:
- Couture tools, supplies, and their applications
- Couture Fabrics, interlinings, support materials, and trimmings
- Couture decorative techniques and embellishments: beading, embroidery, trapunto, etc.
- Couture construction technology: seams, hems, inner construction, and finishing techniques
- Historical study of haute couture and current trends
- Methods of measurement-taking and custom fitting
- The study of muscular and skeletal functions of the human body
- Figure analysis: differentiating various body types and proportions
- Haute couture design and portfolio development
Graduates of this program may be employed by design houses, couturiers, and custom tailors, or as entrepreneurs in their own couture houses.
Curriculum (13 credits):
- AP 242 Haute Couture Sewing Techniques
- AP 243 Haute Couture Decorative Techniques & Embellishments
- AP 244 Haute Couture Construction and Technology
- AP 275 Haute Couture Apparel Design
- AR 292 Haute Couture Portfolio
Student entering the program must have completed the required prerequisite courses, or have demonstrated the equivalent proficiencies, and possess proficiencies beyond entry level prior to registration.
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For General Advisement and Registration:
School of Continuing & Professional Studies
Office: D Building, Lower Level
212 217.3334 (Option 2)
conted@fitnyc.edu
For course specific information contact:
Cynthia Underwood, advisor
Building B Room 701
212 217.5000