On November 1, 2024, students of the Department of Art and Fashion Design of the "Fashion Design" educational program of the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education visited the experimental workshop of the KASS fashion brand. At that time, brand designer Bohdan Kass, a graduate of our University and a stakeholder of the Department of Art and Fashion Design, was working on creating clothing models for the new SS24 season’s collection.
Despite the active work on the collection, the designer told the students in detail about the main stages of the realization of images created in sketches on paper, into realized models, intended both for presentation on the catwalk and for replication in the mass market segment.
The lecture, delivered by the expert-practitioner Bohdan Kass, covered a wide range of professional issues, and the information was useful for first-, second- and third-year students.
Thus, within the framework of the "Fundamentals of the Fashion Industry" course, students learned about the practical aspects of building a brand in the field of fashion, the means of collecting and analyzing information to justify a design project, successful Ukrainian and foreign artistic practices in the design of fashionable clothes.
The second-year students, in the framework of the course "Clothing Shaping and Mock-up", got acquainted with the shaping properties of various materials and constructive forming of clothing models of various purposes and assortments, the mutual influence of the functional and aesthetic components of the shaping means of clothing design.
The peculiarities of the use of various sewing equipment, equipment for cutting materials and wet-heat processing of parts and elements during the production of clothing models aroused the interest of third-year students, because in practice it deepened their knowledge of the course "Clothing Manufacturing Technologies" regarding the introduction of the latest technologies in professional activities, the study of technological processes in the context of the project task, compliance with design standards and technologies for manufacturing clothing models, etc.
The tour took place with the assistance of Anastasiia Yukhymchuk, designer of the fashion brand KASS, graduate student of the Department of Art and Fashion Design, an expert-practitioner who conducts classes on educational disciplines for students of the "Fashion Design" vocational training program at the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education.
We thank Bohdan Kass for the informative lecture and warm welcome of the KASS brand production team!
06.11.2024
