Overall Programme and Goals

• To experience Fashion Design in a hands on way, gaining the tools to enable chanichim to transform their vision into reality and create a garment from beginning to end.
• To explore the broad spectrum of the professional design field in Israel – from young and upcoming fresh designers to the top end famous ones.
• Learn what it takes to become a fashion designer and to succeed in the field.
• To meet Israel’s bubbling and creative fashion industry.

The Year Course Fashion Design Track is an addition to the traditional Year Course programme, offering Community Volunteering, Jerusalem Studies, and the Israeli Experience sections. Each component features extended opportunities for volunteering, learning, and cultural enrichment.

YC Fashion Design offers an intensive educational programme and hands-on experience in one of the most competitive, exciting and innovative areas. Chanichim will meet leading fashion industry professionals who designed and influence what people will wear tomorrow, as well as working side by side with up and coming young Israeli designers to learn how to cope in the real world.

After completing an intensive first semester, learning all the basic courses that a first year student in design school would learn, chanichim will start working on their own project mentored by professional designers sharing ideas and guiding. The whole programme will be lead towards the final project, to be presented in a public fashion show at the end of the year.

No prior experience is needed in order to be a participant in this programme, only the desire for fashion and the creative hands to fulfil the mind’s imagination! This programme is appropriate for chanichim who are willing to work hard and want to challenge themselves on the path to a creative career in the fashion industry.

No special Hebrew level is required.

Community Volunteering (September – November)
Living in Holon Community Volunteering (CV) chanichim will take part in the regular CV programme as outlined in the Year Course Brochure.

During the first semester in Israel, chanichim will go through an intensive training programme designed to introduce them to the fashion world. Twice a week chanichim will take professional courses that are identical to courses taken by first year fashion design students in leading schools all over the world:

• Creative Interpretation – Learn how to translate ideas into fashion, develop collections by draping, keeping in mind appropriate fabrics, colours, trimmings, and workmanship, using draping and patternmaking skills.
  
  
• Concepts in Fashion Planning - Interpret new silhouettes currently showing in the New York, Paris, London, and Rome collections into original designs to meet the demands of the fashion industry's various market segments.
  
  
• Draping: basics - Learn fundamental draping procedures, including the importance of grain, balance, and structure of a garment, and their application to current trends.
  
  
• Textile Design – Discover the artistic and multi faceted world of textile design: get practical experience with printing and dyeing techniques; learn artistic approaches to fabrics with weaving, beads and more.
  
  
• Tailoring Techniques - Design room practices for developing patterns and garments Includes construction, assembly, decorative details, and finishes for tailored clothes.
  
  
• Model Visualisation Techniques - Design room practices for developing patterns and garments Includes construction, assembly, decorative details, and finishes for tailored clothes.

An example Community Volunteering weekly schedule:

Jerusalem Studies (December – February)
The Jerusalem studies section will be the same section as referred to in the Year Course brochure. However one course that will be mandatory for all the Fashion Design track participants: Jewish Art History.

On top of the regular courses, there will be an informal education opportunities for the Fashion Design track chanichim in a weekly group meeting/tour to special places:

• Visiting Hadassah college and taking part in the Print and Graphic design workshop that can enhance chanichim’s knowledge and artistic technique, or an
• An artist class featuring a comic artist that can broaden chanichim’s horizon in the search for new ideas and inspirations.

Israel Experience (March – May)
Living in apartments in the city of Ramat Gan (15 min. from Tel Aviv), 6 chanichim will live in each apartment, and will receive stipend money to buy food and supplies. Chanichim will be assigned to volunteer with young designers that are taking their first steps in the fashion world and working with them chanichim will become familiarised with the local fashion scene and exposed to the life of a young professional.

Most of the day will be dedicated to work on the final project. Chanichim will design a garment that will be presented in a glamorous fashion show at the end of the year.

Once a week there will be a group activity with the madrich/a.  Activities will include:

• Meeting a leading designer and visiting their studio, learning from them in person about their speciality: bridal gowns, sports wear or bathing suits.

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