Developing Fashion Marketing + PR Skills: Your Portfolio – Sample Portfolio Assignment

Assignment Instructions: Your Portfolio Suggested time to complete: 120 minutes It’s time to submit your final project! Throughout this Fashion Industry Essentials program, you have been working to polish your online personal brand, identify opportunities in the fashion industry that you would like to pursue, and demonstrate your fashion skills. Now you will pull all of that …

Developing Fashion Marketing + PR Skills: Fashion Marketing – Online Marketing Assignment

Alternate assignment #1: Online Marketing Suggested time to complete: 90 minutes For this assignment, you can use a real product or service you have developed, or the signature bag you designed in an earlier course. Using a free platform such as WordPress or Tumblr, design a marketing page for the product. Remember that the focus of the site is …

Understanding Fashion Production: Your Production Skills – Your Skill Assignment

Assignment Instructions: Your Skill Suggested time to complete: 60 minutes Recruit a friend to help with this assignment. Have them put on a piece of clothing that is too large or fits poorly. Using straight pins, adjust the fit of the item until the side seams hang straight, the sleeves touch the base of the thumb, the …

Working in Fashion Media: Your Media Brand – Your Audience Assignment

Assignment Instructions: Your Audience Suggested time to complete: 60 minutes If you are hoping to build a popular fashion blog, you will start every day by looking over your tracking numbers! But everyone who is looking to shape their online brand needs to pay attention to what is drawing attention to their profile and content. If you are …

Working in Fashion Media: Fashion Media – Cover Layout Assignment

Assignment Instructions: Cover Layout Suggested time to complete: 60 minutes Your portfolio, even if it is digital, needs a “cover” page. Start by searching online for images of  “digital portfolio cover” to see some examples. This is the first page of the PDF portfolio, or the opening screen on a website. It includes your name, the name …

Understanding Fashion Production: Fashion Production – Production Standards Assignment

Assignment Instructions: Production Standards Suggested time to complete: 90 minutes As anyone who has tried on clothing in a store knows, size is a relative thing. One brand’s size 12 is another brand’s 16. And “medium” could be anything from a size 4 to a 10. For this activity, head to a large clothing retailer that carries a …

Thinking Like a Designer: Your Collection – Your Inspiration Assignment

Alternate assignment #1: Your Inspiration Suggested time to complete: 30 minutes Select two or three objects from your inspiration explosion and place them on a neutral flat surface. For each object, try to get three or four “new perspective” images, capturing them in close-up, or from the bottom, for example. When taking these photos, think about the visual style …

Thinking Like a Designer: Collection Creation – Collection Sample Assignment

For this assignment, I actually completed two of the options. First... Assignment Instructions: Collection Inspiration Suggested time to complete: 30 minutes Clear a table and then set a timer for 5 minutes. Now dash about and gather up items that speak to you. Don’t think too deeply about what to get, just pick up anything that catches your …

Unlocking Visual Style: Your Visual Style – Your Story Assignment

Assignment instructions: Your Story Suggested time to complete: 60 minutes Your story is actually already written. You just need to put it into focus. The elements are around you. They’re in the scarf you found on your last trip. They’re in the classic desk you picked up at that estate sale. They’re in the poster on your wall. Everything that …

Unlocking Visual Style: Visual Style in Fashion – Visual Style in Fashion Media Assignment

Assignment instructions: Visual Style in Fashion Media Suggested time to complete: 60 minutes Part of being a fashion professional is developing an editorial eye. Whether you’re a designer, editor, or marketer, you’ll need to become an expert at recognizing patterns in media, grouping them together, and using them to tell a story.  A mood board like this can help you start seeing …