The world of fashion is filled with exciting opportunities for the young and old, experienced and apprenticed and classic and modern alike. Fashion is a sense of style and when it comes to style, there is no particular right and/or wrong. You could design a dress looking like it was splashed all over with paint or you could weld together pieces as jewelry. Anything can click, all it requires is a little honing and knowledge about some of the underlying fundamentals.

Beginning costume design and construction

This course is provided by MIT Openware courses, a leading online education portal backed by MIT University itself. The course expects you to have some basic know-how about designing and focuses on topics which reinforce your current knowledge. You learn to research different ideas, you learn about the production process, how designs are scrutinized and so on. Skills like draping and drafting are easily picked up with this course.

Costume Design – Tips and Tricks

This course is less theoretical and more practical making it perfect for fashion hardy students and the occasional enthusiast alike. You learn the skills involved in the whole process starting from brain storming for ideas and designs, moving onto sketches and prototypes and then designing and then the actual production phase itself. You learn alternatives for methods as well to employ the right tools at the right time.

Fashion and Popular Culture

This is a really good course for students and designers alike. Students can learn how to ‘fish’ for ideas while designers can get a refresher and add to their existing knowledge. The theme of this course rotates around culture and its impact on fashion. How demands for a particular demand increase and for others fall. You’ll learn to optimize your designing process and reaching out in a better way to customers.

Fashion Era.com

This site is all about fashion designing. Browse through the categories which include designs of different eras, what modern designs are preferred and so on.

Fashion design 101

This course is all about design. You learn how to spot designs, get inspiration and generally just develop ideas for newer and newer designs every day.

Seventeen.com; Fashion Blog

This is a well visited fashion blog with hundreds of mini-courses on the different aspects of fashion designing. You can get the tips in videos as well as step by step pictures.

Fashion Design Illustration

This course is provided by Udemy. It teaches you how to communicate and express your designing abilities on the canvas and designing sheet. The lectures are in video format.

Fashion Designing; Principles and techniques

This link routes you to a site from where you can download the perfect e-book for fashion designing techniques. A 144 page book with detailed illustrations, this book will serve as your all-in-one source for designing tips.

Sketching in Fashion Design 1 & 2

Two different sites, each gives detailed instructions on fashion sketching. The first one is a little general while the second on focuses on specifics.

Howcast.com; Fashion designing tutorials

Howcast.com; a well known online tutorials site has a great 11-video course on fashion design. The videos can be played in your browser for easy viewing. The videos feature renowned fashion designers giving expert advice and info on drawing techniques.

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