Even complete beginners can master reliable techniques and cultivate rich sensitivity that are necessary for designers/pattern makers.

Design & Creation Course

Three years

Design & Creation Course is highly and widely regarded for its high level and outstanding work placement result. Students learn design, pattern making and sewing to master basic and advanced knowledge and techniques needed for fashion professionals.
Making full use of curriculum and methods of ESMOD Paris, ESMOD JAPON unique program aims at developing professionals who can immediately start their career in the fashion industry.

First year
General basic knowledge and techniques

Starting from how to use sewing machines and basics of illustration, you will learn general flow of innerwear production from design analysis to sewing such as skirts, shirts and dresses. It enables you to master fundamentals of making clothes.

Figurine

You will learn how to draw figurines, which mean fashion illustrations. You will draw flesh on a skeleton base model and divide it into 8 parts. It allows you to see how head, shoulder and chests should be placed on the illustration.

Skirt

You will learn skirts, which is a garment for flat part of the human body. Acquiring flat pattern cutting and draping techniques for skirts enables you to learn various items such as semi-flare skirt, flare skirt, mermaid skirt, panel skirt and pleated skirts with the full-scale mannequin.

First year curriculum

Stylism (design)

Illustration
Colour expression
Creative process
Flat sketch
Product variation
Portfolio creation: Skirt, shirt and dress

Modelism (pattern making & sewing)

Shirt
Blouse
Basic knowledge of flat pattern cutting, draping and sewing for dress making.
Collection realisation

Liberal arts

Marketing
Visual design
Textile
Croquis
History of clothing

Promotion exam

Stylism: Creating a dress portfolio
Modelism: Making a dress
Presentation of these works above

Second year
Applied techniques/Creation

You will learn techniques needed to make all the types of designs by realizing outerwear such as jackets, which requires high level skills. Our industry-academia collaboration project deepens your understanding of the fashion industry. It gives you a chance of practical creation which helps you to launch your own brand in the future.

Jacket

Tailored jacket is the basis of all of the other types of jackets. Study it and develop your aesthetics of volume and balance of clothes.

Industry-academia project

Industry-academia project is a part of our sustainability program where you create a new value by upcycling leftover fabric. Students work for design, patternmaking, sewing, PR and selling for their limited time brand which is launched by themselves.

Second year curriculum

Stylism (design)

Fashion illustration
Establishing your own style
Product analysis
Visual research
Portfolio creation: Suits, luxury casualwear, trend book

Modelism (pattern making & sewing)

Tailored jacket
Luxury casualwear
Trousers
Flat pattern cutting and draping for jeans
Collection realisation

Liberal arts

Marketing
Merchandising
Textile
Croquis
CAD
Trend research

Promotion exam

Stylism: Creation of your unique portfolio by referring to fashion magazines.
Modelism: Making outerwear such as blousons and jackets
Presentation of these works

Third year
Creative techniques/Creation business

Making full use of skills you acquired in first and second year, students create their own collection as a brand. After a jury by professionals in the fashion industry, it is released on the runway as their graduate collection. Focusing on wide range of activities in your future, we give you comprehensive instruction such as creation of a commercial line as part of the graduate collection.

Graduate Collection

Graduation Collection represents the culmination of your three year study. An atelier-like atmosphere merging stylism and modelism instruction enables you to deepen your concept and theme. You will visualise them with materials and designs to express and represent your own brand universe.

CLO

CLO is a 3D CAD system which enables us to make or modify experimental designs and patterns and simulate finished products on the computer before sewing. More fashion manufacturers and producers exploit it now. We introduce this software into our curriculum to let you learn the latest technology of the fashion industry.

Third year curriculum

Stylism (design)

Creating portfolios
Photo shoot

Modelism (pattern & sewing)

Flat pattern cutting, draping and alteration of coats
Womenswear
Menswear
Unisex
Children’s clothing
Knitwear
Lingerie
Personal collection project such as stage costume
Design
Patternmaking
Sewing
Release of graduate collection
CLO

Graduate collection jury

Exhibition
Presentation
Assessment

Student Interview
Nami Nosaka
Design & Creation Course student

After graduating from science university, I joined ESMOD. I made clothes on self-study when I was a high school student and I was missing the fun of that creation. I work part-time to pay tuition fee and materials, so I’m always paying attention to balance creation time and working time. I learnt CAD in the dedicated class because I want to be a pattern maker and it helps me a lot. It enables me to draw big patterns on the computer and I can work efficiently thanks to that.

Major future occupation of our students

Stylist (fashion designer)
Modelist (pattern maker)
Textile designer
Planner
Production manager
Dresser

Examples of work placement result

COURSES

Design & Creation Course