Fashion Design
Fundamentals
Instructors and Industry Experts
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) faculty, alongside working designers and experts from across the fashion industry, help aspiring fashion designers learn the skills needed to begin designing a fashion collection through Yellowbrick’s fashion design course.
Accelerate Your Fashion Designing Career
Build Expertise
Develop in demand skills and gain insights from leading academic professionals and industry experts through real-world case studies, self-paced projects and course assignments.
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Acquire the knowledge to boost your career with over 50+ on demand video lessons from FIDM faculty and industry insiders.
Set Yourself Apart
Earn a Certificate of Completion from the world renowned Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising to add to your resume and portfolio.
Curriculum
The fashion design course consists of five online modules and related skill-building activities. Each module takes 3-5 hours to complete and is broken into shorter lessons that students complete at their own pace. Upon finishing the course, students earn a non-credit certificate of completion from the renowned Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM).
Make It Personal
Identifying and cultivating your personal design aesthetic is essential before designing your collection. Find design inspiration by observing your surroundings. Through our fashion design course, students learn about the importance of a design journal: a personal notebook used for sketching and collaging, capturing ideas, documenting information, and recording anything else that inspires you.
Show, Don’t Tell
A mood board serves as a visual summary of the design ideas for your collection. Developing a mood board is essential to refining your initial concept and turning it into a formal draft. Learn about the process of building a mood board, modern mood board tools, and how to get creative with the items, textiles, and images you decide to include.
Fashion Sketching 101
Every design begins with an initial rough sketch. Study the evolution of sketching in fashion and go deeper into the overall modern process to build this important skill set. Learn how to draw a basic silhouette, refine your sketching techniques, and render fabrics to illustrate your ideas.
Muse and Market
A great designer understands their target audience. Learn how to research and analyze your market before making your final designs to determine materials and set your price points. Get an introduction to the concept of a ‘collection statement’: an elevator pitch for your collection that explains your inspiration, logic, and vision to others.
Your Final Designs
When it’s time to finalize your collection, pare down your designs and select the strongest pieces to tell the story of your collection. Learn how to identify the common thread across your designs to ensure its cohesion. Study the differences between a ‘look’ and a ‘piece,’ and how to create various ‘looks’ with a few pieces from your collection.
Hear From Yellowbrick Students
Since starting this course, I've been asked to feature my designs in a fashion show. This course really helped me understand the design process and is a valuable tool, especially for someone new to the fashion industry.
I've been able to expand my business since taking the course, as it gave me more knowledge to build upon and has allowed me to have a stronger foundation.
I'm more confident in the fashion world. I understand the business and how it works.
This course was really fun to do and I genuinely learned a lot from it. I am more serious about my goals and feel like I have the tools to actually pursue them.
I'm working on my first collection and hope to launch it soon.
Doing this course informs you and educates you on fashion design, which can help you open your eyes as you want to be in this industry.
I was able to add it to my resume, and it helped me get into the college I wanted to go to.
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Same full course either way: 5 modules, real industry projects, and your FIDM Certificate of Completion.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Fashion Design Fundamentals includes five on-demand modules covering the essential skills needed to identify and illustrate the concept for a collection and design a selection of pieces for it. Each module takes 3-5 hours to complete and is broken into shorter lessons and activities that you complete at your own pace.
Lessons are taught by Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) faculty. You will also receive career insights and advice from fashion designers and experts from across the industry.
No. There are no prerequisites. All you need is a passion for fashion, design, and learning.
Fashion Design Fundamentals is a non-credit course. Students who complete it earn a Certificate of Completion in Fashion Design Fundamentals from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) that you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Yes. The course is 100% online, self-paced, and on-demand, so you can study whenever and wherever you like.
It varies from person to person, but plan to dedicate about 30 to 40 hours in total. You have a full year of access, so you can pace yourself.
You will gain a significantly greater understanding of how fashion design works within the modern fashion industry. You will also receive a Certificate of Completion from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) that you can add to your LinkedIn profile and resume. This credential can open doors to a future in the fashion industry.
Students must be at least 13 years old to enroll.
Enrollment includes unlimited access to all course videos and materials for one year from your enrollment date. If you need more time after that, you can pay a monthly subscription fee to extend your access.
Most major credit and debit cards are accepted, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and JCB. If you enroll outside the United States, tuition is charged in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate.
You can withdraw within 24 hours of enrollment for a full refund. After that, you have up to 7 days to withdraw for a full refund minus a $100 cancellation fee. No refunds are issued after 7 days. Subscription plans can be canceled before your renewal date by emailing [email protected].
Tuition is $999 when paid in full. Two payment plans are also available at checkout: 4 monthly payments of $269 or 12 monthly payments of $99.
