Bachelor Fashion Styling and Design - Knitwear Design Specialization

Program Overview

The Bachelor in Fashion Styling and Design - Knitwear Design Specialization from LISAA Mode Paris is a three-year program that equips students with the skills to manage a fashion project from conception to completion. With a focus on knitwear design, the program combines traditional techniques with innovative research to develop complete fashion collections. Graduates are prepared for careers as fashion creators, designers, art directors, and more in the fashion industry.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Bachelor in Fashion Styling and Design - Knitwear Design Specialization offered by LISAA Mode Paris is a three-year program that equips students with the necessary skills to manage a project in its entirety, from the various phases of its creation to its conception. Knitwear requires a particular expertise, highly valued in the fashion market. Starting with a first year of common core in styling, this bachelor's program will train you from the second year in the knitwear designer profession. Starting with an understanding of the fiber and the direct mastery of the material fabrication, you will learn to combine traditional techniques with innovative research to develop a complete collection of fashion products. Fashion is a constantly evolving sector, disrupted by new trends, new technologies, new consumption patterns, and new concerns. The role of the stylist is to make sense of all these changes by integrating these new practices related to the evolution of their environment into their creations. Fast Fashion: Stylists must adapt with agility and adaptability, as brands are giving more importance to creativity to differentiate themselves. New Technologies: Their use allows companies to further personalize their customer experience. Stylists are better able to identify their targets and adapt their creations. This also concerns production technologies. The challenge lies in the ability to use technological tools in the service of the sector's professions while preserving manual know-how. Customer Experience: Companies are focusing their strategy on customer experience. The stylist must therefore know how to work in collaboration with all the support services. The advent of social networks has also changed consumer behavior. Methods of co-creating products are emerging, allowing companies to juggle between supply-driven marketing (from creators alone) and demand-driven marketing (arising from field feedback). Multichannel Distribution: Distribution methods are diversifying, improving the customer experience. Online commerce is experiencing strong growth, bringing forth e-commerce giants that are breaking market codes. To counter this, the stylist's work focused on the proposal, choice, and combination of products must be even more imaginative to offer consumers what they expect according to their values. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): As fashion is the second most polluting industry on the planet, consumers are now seeking products that are respectful of the environment and humanity. Sector players are therefore betting on research and innovation: new materials less energy-intensive in natural resources and without negative impacts on the environment, upcycling...

Objective

The skills acquired during this bachelor's program will prepare you to best integrate into professional life. Thus, at the end of the course, you will know how to:

• Define the creative brief of a collection respecting the brand's positioning
• Develop and structure a collection
• Manage the realization of a collection, from its prototyping to its conception
• Promote a collection to internal teams, partners, decision-makers, and/or fashion professionals

Outline:

The Bachelor in Fashion Styling and Design - Knitwear Design Specialization is a three-year program. It is possible to join the course from the first year or during the course. The Stylist - Knitwear Design training is offered in French or English. For a more Fashion business perspective, you can also opt for one of the master's programs offered by LISAA in e-learning and alternating: Master in Fashion & Luxury Management Master in Digital Marketing & Communication Master in Fashion Marketing & Eco-responsibility Master in International Fashion Marketing, the second year of which takes place at Regent’s University in London.

Assessment:

Assessment is carried out throughout the course. Continuous work plays a particularly important role in our assessment of a learner's progress. Assessments with a pedagogical aim, close to professional expectations, will punctuate the course. These assignments are carried out individually or in groups. Assessments in the third year are part of the certification process and are carried out in accordance with the criteria and procedures described in the qualification reference framework. This work must be completed individually. In semester 1

• Continuous work assessed regularly in the various units of the course
• A half-day DST at the end of S1.
In semester 2
• Continuous work assessed regularly in the various units of the course
• End of year jury (4 teachers)
In semester 3
• Continuous work assessed regularly in the various units of the course
• A one-day DST at the end of S3
In semester 4
• Continuous work assessed regularly in the various units of the curriculum
• End of year jury (4 teachers)
In semester 5
• Continuous work regularly assessed in the various units of the curriculum
• 1 examining board (2 teachers)
In semester 6
• Continuous work assessed regularly in the various units of the course
• 4 continuous assessment tests
• Two validating juries (5 teachers)
• One validating end-of-studies jury (3 to 6 professionals + one teacher)

Teaching:

The training employs multiple pedagogical methods to enable beneficiaries to acquire all the competences sanctioned by the targeted title. The pedagogy is designed to support, empower, and maximize learner autonomy through different methods:

• Lectures: Theoretical teachings.
• Flipped Classroom: Learners prepare a topic in advance and work on it individually during in-person classes.
• E-Learning: The school provides programs and tutorials on BlackBoard Learn.
• Blended Learning: E-learning complements in-person courses.
• Workshops: Intensive exploration of a theme or acquisition of the title through limited-time programs.
• Project-Based Learning: Projects are designed across multiple subjects and/or internal or partner school formations over a long period (semester).
• Practical Cases: Learners face real case studies given by partner companies, addressing a professional need.
• Autonomy: Autonomous work periods are included in schedules for learners to independently work on course topics.
• Professionalization: A team dedicated to professionalization assists learners, and conferences on sector-related themes are regularly offered.
In-person courses and their various approaches are deployed in most classes, detailed in the syllabus, and outlined in the course's pedagogical progression plan. The modalities of execution, monitoring, and evaluation of the action, as well as evaluation criteria, are communicated to teachers and assessors through the syllabus. Teachers and/or assessors support learners in the completion and follow-up of evaluative works. For BlackBoard Learn, technical assistance is provided by the integrated digital learning manager, ensuring that each learner can access all available educational documents and resources. Teachers and speakers are encouraged to upload their course materials on the BlackBoard Learn platform for year-round student access. Pedagogical assistance is provided by the program manager and/or pedagogical coordinator. The school offers learners the following services:
• Photo Studio and Computers: Available for use.
• Fablabs: Textile embellishment workshop (Laser Cutting, Digital Embroidery, plotters, presses), accessories workshop, knitwear workshop, screen printing workshop.
• Modeling Rooms and Sewing Machines: Overlockers, coverstitch machines, accessible throughout the year for autonomous use.
• Three technical monitors (Assembly, Knitwear, and Textile Embellishment) are available to learners by appointment.

Careers:

Depending on the size of the organization they work for, a stylist is required to work in a team with a pattern maker and manufacturers, or to take on these different roles alone. In the latter case, they delegate part of their activities to service providers and manage their coordination. Therefore, a stylist needs to be versatile and multidisciplinary. Consequently, the environment in which the fashion stylist/designer operates will influence not only their scope of work and the tasks assigned to them, but also their job title and their place in the production chain. Fashion stylists/designers can work in various sectors: clothing industry, wholesale trade, retail trade, production of films, videos, TV programs, sound recordings and music publishing, publishing, press... for fashion brands, couture houses, style offices, research offices, purchasing centers, department stores, online sales sites, textile manufacturing companies, leather, etc. With your Stylist/Designer of Fashion training, you can apply for numerous professions including :

• Fashion Creator
• Créateur textile
• Designer de mode
• Art Director
• Fashion Designer
• Graphiste textile
• Jeune créateur
• Collection manager
• Studio de création
• Styliste junior
• Knitwear designer
• Styliste sénior
• Styliste textile
• Styliste-designer textile