Designing a training program to develop the students' skills in building fashion design portfolios

Abstract EN

A fashion designer needs to present his ideas, technical drawings (flats), mood boards, and promotional fashion illustrations in effective ways.

Under the umbrella of fashion illustration, this research focuses on fundamentals of fashion drawings and presentation throughout the design process.

As the student of fashion design must present fashion ideas in an effective portfolio, as well as, using it for job interviews or having acceptance to an internship.

Fashion designer explores the skills required to create an effective portfolio, through learning, first, how to illustrate fashion ideas, second, how to represent garments technically, and finally how to compile mood boards.

The best way to build a great portfolio is to focus on the content.

It should showcase the designer's creativity, style, sketching ability, and knowledge of how to use colors, textile understanding, design development and problem solving skills.

Mainly, the problem lays on taught fashion design courses in the specialized faculties, these don't emphasize on how to build effective portfolios.

From that, the aim of the present research is to design a training program, where students' skills are developed, particularly, in the area of building fashion design portfolios.

The resultant data from the program questionnaire reveals that most effective items of the program was the first item "The content of the training program achieves its aims", then the fifth item "The training strategies achieve the program aims " in the second, then both the fourth item "The training activities are enough to develop the fashion students' skills " and the sixth item "The evaluation of each section is suitable for its objectives" in third place, and then the third item "The training aids are enough to transfer skills to students " in fourth place, then both of the second item "The program duration is enough to achieve its aims" and the seventh item "The general form of the program " in the last rank.