Henri Matisse was a French painter and sculptor who lived from 1869 – 1954. He is most known for his brightly colored paintings from the early 1900 pioneering what’s known as the fauvist style. Fauvism emphasized strong color and unique brush strokes instead of realistic or representational forms. He is also well known for his brightly colored cut paper patterns that depict organic shapes and he gained recognition as a leading painter of the modern art movement.

Gravit.io is a vector drawing tool that is used to draw objects in vector format as opposed to raster. You can use it to draw original logo designs and other graphics using the pen tool and the curve features of the pen. You can create an account using your school google credentials.

This article from the Museum of Modern Art features Matisse’s work during the last decade of his life his life. At the time Matisse painted with gouache, an opaque watercolor like paint, on white paper and cut a variety of organic and geometric shapes that he affixed to the wall. Read more about his process and see Matisse in action.

Mood Board

Using Photoshop, create a mood board that you will use to inspire your own fashion designs. The mood board should include images that inspire you; Ideas can include places you’d like to visit, articles of clothing, foods you enjoy eating, favorite colors and textures, animals or other things from nature, as well any other topic you enjoy. Use Google to gather a variety of images from the internet and save them into a folder titled Mood_board.

Sample Mood Boards and Featured Links

Sketchbook Inspiration Samples

Student Moodboard Samples

Fashion-era.com Link 1,  Link2,

Moodboard Task Guidelines

Use the following tutorial links as a guide to combine 25 or more separate images together to compose fashion mood board or collage. The finished composition should express a central theme or tell a story using a variety of different images to express a mood. A central part of the project depends on the your ability to find a variety of images that depict many different aspects of your theme.

1. Create a new document 11 inches by 8.5 inches titled Collage.
2. Copy images from the internet and past them your new Photoshop document.
3. If you save it, title the image but Do Not to delete the extension.
4. Find images that will work to build a background setting to the other images selected.
5. Open each image in Photoshop and use one of the selection tools to select and copy the area and paste it onto your collage document.
6. Gather images for your background areas using more than one picture.
7. Experiment with the various effects, distortion tools, brush hardnesses, and transparency settings.

Sample Student Moodboard Designs

Tutorial | Magic Wand Tool

Tutorial | Magnetic Lasso Tool

Tutorial | Quick Mask Mode

Creating Your Garment Sketches

Study the following fashion flats and examine how the garments are constructed. Take note of the names of common cuts and garments so you can search for specific garments. Google common dress and garment types and add the word “flat” to your search, find flats for all the garments you want to create in your line and save them into a folder you can use for reference. Use the images to help you draw the garments, getting familiar with the shapes and lines of the design, you are welcome to print the images or draw with them from the image on the monitor. You finished line should have three complete outfits.

Fashion Flats

Creating Your Line

Using the finished moodboard and garment shapes you’ve established, create a line of clothing that features three (3) complete outfits. To make the line look complete each outfit should include items such as a blouse, shirt, pants or slacks, jacket or coat, scarves, hats, belts, dresses, skirts, as well as a few accessories like bags or shoes. All the garments in your line should relate to elements evident on your mood board and should relate to each other and be interchangeable.

Tutorials: Photoshop Tools

The Magic Wand Tool
Follow this tutorial to use the Magic Wand tool to select
large areas of an image.

Magnetic Lasso and Quick Mask Tools
Follow this tutorial to use the magnetic Lasso to surround and select
areas of an image.

Photoshop Filter Gallery
Follow this tutorial to explore the various Effects and Filters
in the Filter Gallery.

Born in poor neighborhood of Paris, his parents sent him to apprentice at an umbrella maker’s shop. As a young man Paul would begin sewing fabrics together to create fashion designs for his younger sister’s dolls. In his teens Paul would sketch and design continuously bringing his finished sketches to couture houses who would often purchase his designs. He continued to sell his sketches until he landed a full time job with Jacques Doucet, a prominent fashion designer of the time. Later Poiret would move to the House of Worth where he designed simple dresses for the fashion house.

Poiret created some of fashions most revolutionary and celebrated designs of the early 20th century, becoming known as the “Picasso” of fashion world for the way he transformed woman’s fashion. His designs, considered modern at the time, freed woman from the the corset. His ability to capture his audiences attention with lavish parties, vibrant window displays, and a unique branding and marketing strategy unparalleled by any rival.

Poiret Project

Create several rough sketches of Poiret’s designs in your sketchbook, roughly shade with pencil or color pencil to show the draping of the garments. After completing several sketches redraw your favorite 3 onto the large paper. When finished scan the rough sketches and the finished drawings and insert them into your Google portfolio.

Tutorial | Basic Garment Form

Questions to Consider

Use the various links provided to gather answers to the questions below, discuss your findings with a classmate and be prepared to share your ideas with the class.

1. What are the distinguishing characteristics of Paul Poiret’s designs?
2. What cultural influences do you see in his work, show examples?
3. What are the different features of Paul Poiret’s designs?
4. What shapes, patterns, or colors appear frequently in Poiret’s designs?
5. How do suppose the garment is structured, how does it fit the body?
6. How is the fit of Poiret’s clothing different from the previous design era?
7. What is the difference between draping and tailoring? Which method did Poiret prefer?
8. Why do you think Paul Poiret is called the King of Fashion?

Vocabulary

Figure, the human form.
Form, a 3 dimensional object that has volume and takes up space.
Highlight, the lightest part of an object or form where light is hitting.
Haute Couture, House of high fashion.
Pattern, the repetition of lines or forms.
Shadow, the darker areas of a form or the shadow of the form.
Sketchbook, a book to practice drawing, formulate ideas and keep visual resources.
Texture, an element of design that refers to the surface, ex rough, smooth, fuzzy.
Value, an element of design that relates to the lightness and darkness of a color or tone.

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Paul Iribe Illustrations

Biography Questions to Answer

Use the link provided here to answer the following questions about Paul Poiret. On a new slide in your Google Portfolio create either a raw list of facts from the questions raised or compose sentences or a paragraph that will include the information about the designer. Title the slide, add a photo of Poiret along with few of his original dress designs in the same slide.

1. Where was Poiret born?
2. When was he born?
3. What was his father’s business?
4. What career interested Poiret while he was in boarding school?
5. What job did he have as a young man after graduation?
6. According to the article, what was Poirets’ ‘big break”, what did he sell?
7. What was his first full time job, who was his boss?
8. What was his first design at the new job, was is successful, how do you know?Answers to questions 9-12 can be found in this brief article
   
9. Where and when did Poiret set up his own shop?
10. What do you suppose are Orientalist and Neoclassical Style?
11. What did title did his success earn him?
12. What happened to Poirets’ popularity by the 1920’s?

Tutorial | Writing Content from Source Material

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Fatta’s Feud

We surveyed 100 people top 5 answers on the board here’s the question, name 5 different jobs Paul Poiret had in order to become the “King of Fashion”.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/poir/hd_poir.htm
http://wevoicefashion.com/fashion-philosophy/2014/12/21/paul-poiret
http://learningforgodsglory.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-poiret-1879-1944-french-fashion.html
http://godsavedadaism.blogspot.com/2012/05/critical-approach-to-paul-poiret.html

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As a young man Worth began working with various textile merchants in London where he learned about fabrics and the business of fabric supply. His passion for fashion design led him to study historical portraits, analyzing the dress and garments of the wealthy patrons in the paintings.

When he was 20 Worth moved to Paris which at the time was the center of the fashion world. He found work at a leading textile firm selling fabric, shawls, and other garments. He become the company’s most successful salesman and was given the opportunity to open a dress making shop within the building.

In 1852, with the creation of the Second Empire in France, Napoleon III becomes emperor of France as France, once again, becomes an imperial power. Empress Eugenie would become Worth’s most valued client designing dresses for the Empress. This upscale exposure and the increased demand for luxury goods throughout Europe and America, would raise Worth’s to prominence as the preeminent fashion designer of the time.

1. What are the distinguishing characteristics of woman’s dress design in the 19th century?
2. What are the different parts or features of 19th century woman’s dress?
3. What shapes are apparent in the Worth’s designs?
4. How do suppose the garment is structured, how does it fit the body?
5. What patterns are evident within the designs, how do they make the garments feel?
6. Why do you think Frederic Worth is called the father of haute couture?

Tutorial | Sketching a Garment

Biography Questions to Answer

Use the link provided here to answer the following questions about Frederic Charles Worth. On a new slide in your Google Portfolio create either a raw list of facts from the questions raised or compose a paragraph that will include the information about the designer. Title the slide, add a photo of Frederic Worth along with few of his original dress designs in the slide.

1. Where was Frederic C. Worth born?
2. When was he born?
3. What job did he have as a young man?
4. What textile firm did he find work with when he arrived in Paris?
5. How well did he do as a salesman with Gagelin firm, how was he rewarded?
6. According to the article, what was in demand in France with the rise of Neopolian III?
7. Whose  patronage ensured Worth’s success as a popular dressmaker?
8. According to the article, what are the notable features of Worth’s designs?
9. What did Worth within his career do to earn the title “father of haute couture“?
10. How did clients buy garments at the House of Worth?

19th Century Silhouette & Support

Nineteenth century woman’s dress relied on supports such as crinolines, panniers, and corsets which were constructed with wire, or wale bone and wrapped with fabric. Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s site page Nineteenth Century Silhouette and Support as well as Eighteenth Century Silhouette and Support for a a look closer look the various garments of the era. Compare the fashions from the two centuries, how did fashion change, how did it stay the same?

Images: http://thedreamstress.com/2010/11/early-worth-gowns/

https://myfashionillustrations.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/charles-frederick-worth-at-metropolitan-museum-of-art/

http://shewasabird.blogspot.com/2014/03/charles-frederick-worth-dresses-at-met.html

https://sentsmemory.wordpress.com/tag/charles-frederick-worth/

“Crinoline, 1860-1870. MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, www.momu.be. Photo by Hugo Maertens, Bruges” by Crinoline, 1860-1870. Jacoba de Jonge Collection in MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, www.momu.be / Photo by Hugo Maertens, Bruges. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons –

What are the some of the distinguishing characteristics of woman’s dress design in the late 1900’s?
What are the common trends of the time, how would you describe them?
What patterns are evident within the designs, how are they applied to the garment?
What colors and what textures are evident within the designs?
Who where some of the major designers of the early 1800’s?
Who and what were some of the influences of the time?

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Use the images provided or search for original, authentic photos of  Victorian era clothing. The following images have been gathered from museum archives and websites foot noted below. To view or print the image in its original size click into the slide show, slide to the favored image, right click and select Save Image As. You can view or print the full size image as a reference to help build your sketch and final drawings.

Tutorial | Sketching a Garment

Sketching from observation is a good way to strengthen your drawing skills. A series of quick gesture drawings are sometimes more effective to the designer than a single heavily detailed illustration that takes longer to produce. Artists and designers generate numerous sketches of the subject in order to become familiar with its shapes, forms and proportion. The tutorial featured below demonstrates how to sketch lightly, build proportional shapes, and render details and draw contour lines to describe the form of the garment.

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Early Fashion Photography

The earliest photographs of woman’s fashion where often of the aristocratic and socially elite class in Europe at the time.  With the newly refined camera, from 1839 on, many Queens, Princesses, and Duchess enjoyed posing with their finely embroidered garments. From the point of view of photographic and fashion history, historians are able to date a photograph down to the year, due to the annual shift in trends and additions. Whereas, men’s fashions remained relatively static and unchanged for several years.

In the history of fashion and photography, Lady Hawarden Clementina is widely considered to be the first fashion photographer of all time, daughter of Admiral of Britain’s Royal Navy, Clementina was recognized in her time for her portrait photography as she garnered over eight hundred portraits of her daughters. Her short but prolific career as a photographer gained her many feature exhibitions and awards and made her a prominent photographer of the Victorian Era.

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Project | Patterned Photoshop Collage

Use the featured tutorials to guide you in constructing a multi-layered collage image in Adobe Photoshop. The Mudecu.be link provided can help you generate and garner multiple patterned samples that you will combine using the Blending Modes within the Layers Panel. A tutorial provides a shortcut view of the original youtube video by Cat Whipple titled, How to Photoshop Collage Art and the original video is embedded here. Create an image in the style depicted in the resource, select a subject from the search term 19th Century Fashion Photography. Collect a variety of vintage photos depicting subjects wearing different articles of Victorian era clothing. Create a vintage scene, complete with patterns, furnishings, in the style presented in the images and tutorials.

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Tutorial | Cat Whipple’s Photoshop Collage Layers

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Mudecu.be

MudCube Use this online painting tool
to generate a variety of patterns using the apps
pattern and swatches panels. Save the images
to your drive that you will use in the project.

Images Sources

Robe à l’Anglaise, circa 1780, source: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman’s Robe with Petticoat, England, circa 1775, source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Day Dress, 1820, source, Austen’s Lady Susan, Mores, Manners Fashioning Society

Corset, Petticoat, Sleeve Hoops, 1830 source: Fashion History

Evening Dress, circa 1860, source: Austen’s Lady Susan, Mores, Manners Fashioning Society

Day Dress, 1860, source: Austen’s Lady Susan, Mores, Manners Fashioning Society

Dress with Crinoline, circa 1913. source: Victoria and Albert Museum

The Library Time Machine The first fashion photographer: Clementina, Lady Hawarden, By Dave Walker, retrieved 10.8.2016

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Fashion Flats

Flats are the front and back view of a garment as if it was laid flat out on a table. Flats show the details of the construction of a garment, showing pockets, buttons, stitching, and zippers and so forth. Use the various garment flats to help you sketch ideas for a design.

Textile Patterns

Pattern is an important element in fashion design and art. Pattern is the repetition of shape, line, or form, and many are recognizable and are widely known by name. The human eye is very attracted to pattern and using pattern in your designs is a very good way to keep your viewers attention.

Biography Task

The answers to the following questions can be found in the various articles about Christian Dior at Mr. Fatta’s Oscar De La Renta Magazine, there you will find all the information you need about the history and biography of Christian Dior. I encourage your to explore the different articles about Dior and try to find unique pieces of information that you can include in your research. As a guide, helpful links are embedded in some of the questions to guide you in your initial search. Create a slide in your Google Portfolio that addresses the following questions, work to compose complete sentences from the information you gather, exemplar work would feature the research in at least 2 complete paragraphs.

1. What are the general facts about Oscar’s; birth date, birth place, parents, etc?
2. What did Oscar dream of becoming before deciding to be a fashion designer?
3. What famous woman has Oscar designed dresses for?
4. Whom did Oscar marry, how did she influence his career?
5. What happened to his wife?
6. What are the distinguishing characteristics of Oscar’s designs?
7. What shapes, patterns, or colors appear frequently in his designs?
8. What prestigious Boards did Oscar serve on?
9. What were the circumstances  of his death?

When writing a biography it is important to write the information using your own words and to not copy from the web site or source material. Read the material and identify the main ideas and facts, reorganize the facts, combine ideas from different sources, and use synonyms to create your own biography. Use the following tutorial below to guide you in writing your own biography about Oscar De La Renta from the links provided.

¹Oscar de la Renta Biography.com, Biography.com Editors, The Biography.com website, https://www.biography.com/people/oscar-de-la-renta-9270239, September 24, 2017, A&E Television Networks

Fashion Design Task

Use the images featured here and develop a series of sketches in your sketchbook to create 3 figures wearing original De La Renta’s designs. Trace the finished sketches onto large marker paper, darken the lines. Scan the line drawing before coloring it to print it out on marker paper if needed.

Color the sketches lightly and shade darker to show shadow and highlight to create form in the work. Add any textures, patterns and details to your sketches as well.

Label the sketches with the tile of the garment as shown on the source site, list the creation date, and write any pertinent information about the design. Include swatches of color, pattern, and texture with the sketches and the notes to highlight those elements of the design. Peruse the featured slideshows below for samples of couture sketches.

1. Create 3 sketches of De La Renta’s Designs on fashion croquis (figurers) Include hair, and facial features.

2. Scan the pencil drawing before coloring it in. Print the scanned work onto large drawing paper.

3. Color the printed scan using markers

As students progress through the year they will develop the technology and software skills needed to create a variety of computer-generated images throughout the course. Traditional media such as drawing, painting, and sketching are also covered in the class. While meeting the NY State standards for the arts the course will also aim to strengthen student writing skills by integrating standards in ELA, and build a thematic base using standards from social studies, technology, science, and more.

Responsibilities.
1. Attendance: Regular attendance is required and students are responsible for getting to class on time. Excessive absences and/or lateness will result in a letter home to parents/guardians and cut slips will be submitted to house deans if necessary. Detentions may also be issued in most the extreme cases and students are responsible for any missed work from absences. Students who expect to be absent for extended periods of time will be required to complete a series of projects using Online Paining Tools with their Chromebook or home computer with assistance from home tutor, the classroom website, and teacher student discussions.

2. Participation: Students are expected to keep an active focus during instruction and discussion times and actively participate during that time. Students are to maintain the classroom work flow on their User Interface (UI) and confine themselves to the applications and websites directly involved with the assignment. Students are expected to conduct themselves in a responsible manner in accordance with an academic setting. Students are expected to work continually on the assignments and/or any related activities during class time and remain seated until the bell sounds. Students who do not meet these expectations will be penalized participation points and may loose network and Internet privileges associated with their account.

3. Network Accounts: Students are required to follow the district’s computer use policy, respect district and student data, and use the computer equipment with care. Students are required to save and maintain their project files within the (H:) drive of the network and back up project files to a course folder in their Google Drive. Lost files and the excuse, ‘it got deleted’ is not valid. Additionally, document titles will be required to follow a strict formula that will utilize a combination of snake_case and CamelCase document titling. Last name with the first initial in camel case, followed by an underscore (_), followed by the project name in camel case, a number, and finnaly the file extension. Example: FattaL_SharkWhite02.jpg, FattaL_SharkHammer.jpg Ok, It’s hard to explain.

4. Internet Service Accounts: Students will be required to maintain the student Google Account established by Middletown City School District. Students are also required to create and maintain certain Internet accounts that will enable them to meet the instructional goals of the class.  Students are required to maintain account access to all Internet Service Accounts throughout the year; failure to remember or retain login information will adversely effect class participation and assessment percentage points on the final average.

• Google Accounts: Students are required to maintain the Student Google Account that has been established by the district. While utilizing a variety of applications within Google, students are required to use Google Slides to maintain a digital portfolio of completed work that will be used to assess student proficiency throughout the course. Specific guidelines for the portfolio will be discussed in class and are outlined on the site. Student email addresses will be utilized as the user name for any Internet Service Accounts associated with the class.

• Learnboot: Each student will have access to an Learnboot account that will enable them to review project grades and evaluate overall classroom performance. Students will be provided login information for accounts that have been established.

• Digital Tutors: Digital Tutors is a video tutorial service that will guide students through the basic workings of a program. Advanced students are required to create a free account with DigitalTutors.com using their Google email account. Completion of viewed videos within the Digital Tutors site will be included within students’ overall assessment.

• Quia.com:  The course will utilize an online assessment tool called Quia, it will be used throughout the year to help assess student proficiency with terms and concepts being studied. Students will be provided login information that they are to keep readily available.

• UI and Classroom Browsers: Students are required to keep a clean and efficient workflow on their desktop free from any distracting elements and websites. Students are expected to disable extra task bars on Internet browsers and maintain all default settings on tools within the applications. Students are expected to be able to access often used websites and applications instantaneously from the Start menu and Bookmarks/Favorites bar.

5. Distractive Devices: Students are expected to keep personal devices in a pocket, bag, or backpack and out of plane sight. Social networking, texting, gaming, and other uses of technology not related to class activity is not allowed.

6. Grading: Projects 80%, ELA Essays 10%, Participation 10%. A Final Exam and Final Project is  assigned at the end of the year will be 1/5th of the final grade for the course. Projects are assessed against project rubrics and student’s own skills and abilities. Students are to evaluate their own projects and submit their self-assessed grade with the finished projects within their Google Slides Portfolio.

7. Procedures for exiting the classroom in an emergency: Remain quiet and listen to all directions, gather immediate personal belongings, exit the class through the front door, remain quiet, exit the building through the front door, walk the back of the main parking lot and gather on the grass where attendance will be taken.

8. All students are directed to review the course syllabus and be prepared to be quizzed on the information. The above expectations will be evaluated daily and constitute the first project grade and will significantly impact interim report cards and progress report results.  Students are required to share the above information with their parents/guardians and instruct them to email Mr. Fatta from at louis.fatta@ecsdm.org

Pixely Fatta Movie

Rubric

First Day’s Site Stats September 2014

Fashion students will need a sketchbook that they can use to sketch and draw in daily. A variety of sketchbooks are available at art supply stores and online. Some sketchbooks have the fashion figure already drawn very lightly on the page which saves the fashion designer a lot of time. Below are a list of specialty sketchbooks as well as basic sketchbooks you will find online or at a store near you.

Sketchbook Inspiration Samples

Sketchbook Types

Fashionary sketchbooks are the very best in fashion sketchbooks and
suited for the serious fashion design student. The book includes
pages of handy reference charts, pattern and fabrics types,
sample composition flats, and lightly printed figures to draw designs on.
Fashion Sketpad A great tool for aspiring fashion designers who love to sketch
clothes but don’t have the skills to draw proportional figures, the skecthpad
is filled with 420 figure templates and 20 different poses.

Fashion Design Workshop offers budding artists the perfect introduction to the fundamentals of fashion figure drawing. Step-by-step projects cover a range of looks—from sophisticated and elegant to cool and casual. The book also contains tips on accessorizing with purses,
shoes, hats, and more.

 Creating a skirt form

 Creating a pleated skirt form

Creating a darted skirt form

Variations of Pleats and Darts

Download the template