Final Project Series: Parsons Paris Inside Fashion Design: Becoming a Designer for the 21st Century

An abundance of creativity goes into the making of a fashion trend. Top designers use a process that involves research, cultural awareness, construction, and sustainable materials to bring a concept to life. If you are curious about fashion and are thinking about a career in this dynamic industry, Parsons Paris fashion college prep program provides a compelling online course just for high school students that focuses on fashion design. Inside Fashion Design: Becoming a Designer for the 21st Century will teach you how to use this process to build a cohesive collection to tell a story, and how today’s fashion influences social change and the expression of identity.

Just take a peek at what you will learn:

• Explore how today’s fashion design is responding to issues like sustainability, diversity, and heritage preservation
• Discover how to choose the best fabrics for your designs, in particular environmentally friendly fabrics
• Receive an introduction of potential careers in fashion design, art direction, styling, and pattern making
• Determine research methods for targeting your audience
• Learn techniques to bring your ideas into the marketplace
• Create a design concept for a ten-piece collection (garments and/or accessories) through drawing and illustration

Plus, this fashion design course for high school students culminates with a special “Insider’s Challenge” Final Project that allows you to:

• Develop a personal narrative or manifesto to capture your personal approach to style
• Create a 1-minute video that takes viewers behind the scenes to showcase your design process, thinking, and research. Thinking about texts, visuals, photographs, drawings that you’ve done, and sound as well
• Construct illustrations for your signature collection of 10 silhouettes and accessories, from garments to products to materials. This will help you to really determine how you want to show your skills in fashion

As course creator and instructor Eros Antoniadis states: “The Insider’s Challenge is your opportunity to show us all the skills and all the knowledge you got from this course, and impress us with your instincts and your talent. Good luck.”

Even better: this Insider’s Challenge Final Project is a fundamental addition to your college application portfolio — an essential showcase of your work. 

Lucky for you, fashion design is just one of a variety of online courses offered by Parsons Paris. In addition to fashion design, you can experience courses in sustainability, the business of fashion, and building a brand. 

Learn more about Parsons Paris Online Courses here.