What to include in your portfolio for CSM Fashion Design? (& LCF, Parsons, IFM, RA Antwerp) — Transcript

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1. 0:00would you like to know how to create a
2. 0:02strong portfolio that could get you into
3. 0:04any top fashion School in the world in
4. 0:07this video I will try to demystify the
5. 0:09process of getting into some of the best
6. 0:10fashion design schools and I will share
7. 0:12with you insights that could elevate
8. 0:14your portfolio to a whole new level
9. 0:16getting into one of the top fashion
10. 0:19schools could be a huge springboard for
11. 0:21your career if you research some of the
12. 0:23most influential designers of our time
13. 0:25what you'll find most of them have in
14. 0:27common is the school they study at and
15. 0:30in most cases those are CSM which I
16. 0:32graduated from Royal Academy of Fine
17. 0:35Arts ifem or Parsons in Europe for
18. 0:38example
19. 0:39the teaching in this schools is
20. 0:40fundamentally different from what most
21. 0:43other schools offer because the focus is
22. 0:45on creativity and on the ambition to
23. 0:47push the industry forward however these
24. 0:50schools are notoriously hard to get into
25. 0:52there is very little guidance available
26. 0:54to help you achieve this and there's a
27. 0:56lot of misinformation online and unlike
28. 0:59what the popular opinion is more
29. 1:02important than your talent and
30. 1:04experience is knowing which criteria
31. 1:07these universities are checking your
32. 1:09portfolio by because then you can focus
33. 1:12your time and energy on perfecting those
34. 1:14specific skills which will drastically
35. 1:16increase your chances of getting in the
36. 1:19truth is that even if you do have solid
37. 1:21skills as well as Talent you're still
38. 1:23not guaranteed the entry and even if
39. 1:26you're not in this on your own maybe you
40. 1:28have a tutor or you're telling some
41. 1:29other type of a course most teaching
42. 1:32programs are too scattered and they're
43. 1:34not focused enough on the specific
44. 1:35requirements of the top BA program so at
45. 1:38the end will most likely leave you
46. 1:40confused and insecure in what you're
47. 1:43doing
48. 1:43due to the exclusivity of the
49. 1:45information related to the top courses
50. 1:47it is hard to know what to focus on
51. 1:50which work to include and how to present
52. 1:52it let alone be sure that your work is
53. 1:55creative and unique enough for many
54. 1:57students the reality of portfolio
55. 1:59preparations look like this
56. 2:01years of dreaming and researching about
57. 2:03a course
58. 2:04and months of preparing projects and
59. 2:07practicing skills
60. 2:09and digging for first-hand information
61. 2:11on random forums in hope they will find
62. 2:14the right advice which will help them
63. 2:16stand out in the thousands of
64. 2:18applications
65. 2:19or people make a very last minute
66. 2:21decision to apply and have a complete
67. 2:23lack of understanding of the process and
68. 2:25how to put together an exciting body of
69. 2:27work
70. 2:28well only those with the right
71. 2:30information
72. 2:31relevant skills and the right mindset
73. 2:34can apply with confidence that their
74. 2:37work won't go unnoticed my name is
75. 2:40isidora jurovich and I'm a london-based
76. 2:42fashion designer I study fashion at San
77. 2:45Jose Martins where I did both the
78. 2:46foundation and the ba course and during
79. 2:49and after my studies I worked at quite a
80. 2:51few london-based Brands as well as
81. 2:54Givenchy in Paris as a producer at one
82. 2:57Granary and as a woman as a Runway
83. 2:59designer at Burberry
84. 3:01and more recently I started working
85. 3:03independently for clients including
86. 3:05Kylie Jenner in the next few minutes I'm
87. 3:08going to share with you exactly how
88. 3:10myself and my students have gotten
89. 3:13ourselves a place on some of the most
90. 3:14competitive fashion courses in the world
91. 3:16how we got to be the part of the top of
92. 3:19the fashion industry and how you can do
93. 3:21the same I'm also going to share with
94. 3:23you the biggest mistakes that students
95. 3:25make when it comes to applying the three
96. 3:28things that differentiate successful
97. 3:30applicants from those who don't get in
98. 3:32and the key Concepts behind the method
99. 3:35for fashion portfolio course which will
100. 3:38drastically increase the chances of
101. 3:40getting in over the past few years I've
102. 3:42been dedicating to helping people who
103. 3:44are committed to two things
104. 3:46developing their design skills with
105. 3:48intent of becoming an industry leader
106. 3:50and having a lot of fun in the process
107. 3:53so if you're someone who has an ambition
108. 3:55to be a great designer you are
109. 3:58definitely in the right place and you're
110. 3:59going to love what I'm about to share
111. 4:01with you so this course is for students
112. 4:04who are already enrolled into Foundation
113. 4:06or other type of art design courses a
114. 4:09level students and Senior year high
115. 4:11school students as well as for people
116. 4:13with little or without any prior
117. 4:16experience who wish to enter the fashion
118. 4:18industry or fashion designers who just
119. 4:21wish to learn new skills to elevate
120. 4:23their work before we start I would just
121. 4:25like to share with you the results that
122. 4:26I've achieved using the method that I
123. 4:28base this course on
124. 4:30so for example csm's acceptance rate is
125. 4:33seven percent and last year eighty
126. 4:35percent of my students whose first
127. 4:36choice was CSM got accepted other
128. 4:40students got into universities such as
129. 4:42Westminster Kingston and ifm
130. 4:45and in the previous years I worked with
131. 4:47people who got into Parsons rural
132. 4:50Academy of Fine Arts and non-verb and
133. 4:52the foundation courses CSM
134. 4:54after helping many students to get into
135. 4:56the desired courses I started noticing
136. 4:58patterns of what people struggle with
137. 5:00the most and what they find the most
138. 5:03valuable when working with me so I
139. 5:05started developing a method which could
140. 5:07produce results for anyone regardless of
141. 5:09their background and experience
142. 5:12I compiled everything that I learned
143. 5:13from my studies as well as through work
144. 5:15with my students into a course which
145. 5:18makes this process a lot easier faster
146. 5:21and more fun now the best thing about
147. 5:23the method for fashion portfolio course
148. 5:25that I'm teaching is that it gives you a
149. 5:28breakdown of the whole design process it
150. 5:31teaches you the exact skill that you
151. 5:32need and it gives you the key
152. 5:34information regarding different
153. 5:35expectations and requirements of the top
154. 5:38courses
155. 5:39the exercises will be very Hands-On with
156. 5:42straightforward instructions so you can
157. 5:44rapidly strengthen the quality of your
158. 5:46work it works regardless of your
159. 5:48background and experience and because
160. 5:50these techniques are taught at CSM they
161. 5:53are guaranteed to produce you an
162. 5:55exciting outcome plus you will get to
163. 5:57see dozens of scheduled pages and
164. 6:00portfolio examples from my foundation
165. 6:02for a second even the final year of my
166. 6:05studies which is a very valuable source
167. 6:08for Learning and you won't be able to
168. 6:10find that anywhere else online
169. 6:12now among thousands of designers around
170. 6:15the globe I'm sure they've noticed two
171. 6:16kinds one would be the wannabe designers
172. 6:20who tend to copy other people's work and
173. 6:23generally there are people who just
174. 6:24follow the trends and the other kind are
175. 6:27leaders so big creative directors or
176. 6:29designers working for luxury brands or
177. 6:32emerging young talent that launches
178. 6:34their own Brands straight after college
179. 6:36these people create Trends and push the
180. 6:38industry forward so what is the
181. 6:41difference between those who become
182. 6:42industry leaders and those who copy
183. 6:45well having seen works of hundreds of
184. 6:48graduates during my five years at CSM as
185. 6:51well as through industry work I learned
186. 6:53that successful designers have certain
187. 6:55mindset and skills in place which
188. 6:58wannabees don't
189. 6:59wannabes focused on creating cool
190. 7:02designs without the research process to
191. 7:04back up the design decisions
192. 7:06when you focus on experimenting
193. 7:09researching drawing as well as learning
194. 7:12about art and design your process will
195. 7:15naturally lead you to an exciting
196. 7:16outcome
197. 7:17also starting a project knowing exactly
198. 7:19how it will turn out won't let you see
199. 7:22exciting possibilities that come along
200. 7:24in a process it is also much more boring
201. 7:26now I wanted to post for a moment and
202. 7:29let this next Point really sink in
203. 7:32because it's a big one and it's almost
204. 7:34the exact opposite of what everybody
205. 7:36else out there is telling you
206. 7:38final outcome doesn't matter
207. 7:42those applicants focus on the final
208. 7:44outcome instead of the process which is
209. 7:46the only way to come up with exciting
210. 7:48work
211. 7:49examiners also want to see mistakes in
212. 7:52formal failed experiments in your
213. 7:54portfolio
214. 7:55they're now looking for mature designers
215. 7:57they're looking for potential for growth
216. 8:00and hunger for Innovation and this is
217. 8:02best shown through experiments you need
218. 8:05to be willing to take risks and
219. 8:07sometimes even fail in the process of
220. 8:08discovery and the third thing is your
221. 8:12skills don't need to be extraordinary to
222. 8:14get in now remember that there are three
223. 8:16things that I said the successful
224. 8:18applicants have in their portfolios that
225. 8:20those who fail don't well those three
226. 8:22things are high quality research
227. 8:26and Innovative design development which
228. 8:29is basically a process or a technique
229. 8:31that they come up with as a result of
230. 8:33fruitless experimentation and thorough
231. 8:36research
232. 8:37and the third thing is effective
233. 8:39presentation
234. 8:40presentation can make a body of work
235. 8:42appear much stronger than it actually is
236. 8:46because it all comes down to this if you
237. 8:49don't have the tools to master these
238. 8:51three things your chances of getting in
239. 8:54are extremely low now let's get down to
240. 8:57business and show you exactly how you
241. 8:59can start creating a portfolio
242. 9:01there are two main things that you
243. 9:03should be doing at this stage primary
244. 9:05and secondary research and design
245. 9:08development and experimenting in other
246. 9:10words knowing how to translate that
247. 9:12research into interesting developments
248. 9:15and if you're not getting Innovative
249. 9:17type of work right now then let me ask
250. 9:19you two questions
251. 9:20what are your sources of research and
252. 9:23how much do you research before you
253. 9:24start developing
254. 9:26do you select your imagery analyze it
255. 9:29and then use that to inform Your Design
256. 9:30developments or do you rely on a
257. 9:33preconceived idea of why you want your
258. 9:35collection to be
259. 9:37have you ever tried to learn new or
260. 9:39improve your design development skills
261. 9:41it is so easy to get overwhelmed by
262. 9:43shiny things like expensive Fabrics or
263. 9:46complex techniques or this idea of a
264. 9:49perfectly finished garment when in
265. 9:51reality you should be focusing on
266. 9:53research and design development
267. 9:56successful applicants know these three
268. 9:58things where the quality research can be
269. 10:00found and how to translate it into
270. 10:02design developments
271. 10:04which design development techniques to
272. 10:06use and they also know that the
273. 10:09presentation is as important as the work
274. 10:11itself
275. 10:13when you have strong research and unique
276. 10:15design development creating a strong
277. 10:17portfolio becomes as easy as choosing
278. 10:20the best Sketchbook Pages the whole
279. 10:22process becomes much more enjoyable
280. 10:24because you'll be working with
281. 10:26confidence that you're doing the things
282. 10:27in the right way and While others are
283. 10:29looking for a way to make their
284. 10:31portfolio pagers nicer or more creative
285. 10:34you'll spend time developing a body of
286. 10:36work which won't need redoing or fixing
287. 10:39after it's been produced here I'll just
288. 10:41talk you through a few key Concepts that
289. 10:44matter for fashion portfolio courses
290. 10:46based on
291. 10:47the process starts by knowing how to do
292. 10:49quality research and where exactly to
293. 10:52look for it there are two types of
294. 10:54research primary which is your own that
295. 10:57means the work that you created or
296. 10:59gathered without the influence of other
297. 11:01people and this can include photography
298. 11:04observational drawings personal
299. 11:06possessions or art that you created
300. 11:09and the other type of research is
301. 11:11secondary
302. 11:12that is other sources not your own and
303. 11:14this could represent work of other
304. 11:16people in forms of imagery articles from
305. 11:20books magazines or the internet
306. 11:23once you have a solid body of research
307. 11:25which feels fresh and has a unique angle
308. 11:28you can start merging different elements
309. 11:30together by using design development
310. 11:32techniques
311. 11:33and designed to open techniques covered
312. 11:35in this course are 3D techniques such as
313. 11:38draping deconstruction and paper
314. 11:40manipulation creative drawing
315. 11:43observational drawing as well as Mark
316. 11:45making illustration and collage and
317. 11:49color and texture developments as well
318. 11:51as collection development
319. 11:53all these processes need to be driven by
320. 11:55risk-taking and experimentation and the
321. 11:58result of following these sequence of
322. 12:00steps correctly is an outcome that no
323. 12:03one has seen before and the best part
324. 12:06about it is that you'll finally have the
325. 12:08tools with which you can move your
326. 12:10creative process forward even when you
327. 12:12feel stuck the final step of this course
328. 12:14is portfolio presentation presentation
329. 12:17is a very broad term that covers
330. 12:20everything from how you lay out the
331. 12:22imagery in your portfolio and your final
332. 12:24illustrations to the creative direction
333. 12:27of your photo shoots or how you present
334. 12:29yourself in real life and online and
335. 12:32this is mostly learned your studies of
336. 12:34art design and marketing
337. 12:36in this course I will teach you how to
338. 12:38create a portfolio that will emphasize
339. 12:40your strengths and help you stand out I
340. 12:43will explain all the rules and logic
341. 12:45around portfolio presentation and I will
342. 12:47answer the most common questions such as
343. 12:49what to include how to know if your work
344. 12:52is strong enough how to organize
345. 12:54projects and how to organize content on
346. 12:57individual Pages as well as how to
347. 12:59communicate your ideas clearly and how
348. 13:02to create a strong layout we will also
349. 13:05cover topics such as photo shoots
350. 13:07interviews and personal statements so
351. 13:09just to sum up
352. 13:11to create a body of work which can get
353. 13:13you into any top fashion School you need
354. 13:15to get these four things in alignment
355. 13:17and those are research design
356. 13:19developments experiments and portfolio
357. 13:22presentation
358. 13:24when you get them in alignment you will
359. 13:25produce a portfolio which will really
360. 13:27stand out and this is only possible
361. 13:30through Guidance with examples
362. 13:32Focus practice of those key skills and
363. 13:35understanding of the full process so
364. 13:38this course will be perfect for you if
365. 13:40you're looking to secure a place at one
366. 13:42of the top global fashion programs if
367. 13:45you would like to understand what to
368. 13:47include in your portfolio and how to
369. 13:49present it
370. 13:50and if you would like to build a skill
371. 13:52set using techniques that are accessible
372. 13:55to insiders only
373. 13:57it will also be suitable for you if
374. 13:58you're looking for a mentor with
375. 14:00industry experience or if you would just
376. 14:03like to see some examples of CSM
377. 14:06sketchbooks portfolios garments and
378. 14:08briefs it is also for people who are
379. 14:11willing to have some skin and a game
380. 14:13show dedication and understand that they
381. 14:16need to invest their money in order to
382. 14:18grow their skill set and take their
383. 14:20career to the next level
384. 14:22the skills that you will learn will last
385. 14:24your lifetime and could not only get you
386. 14:26into your desired course but could make
387. 14:28you more prepared than anyone else in
388. 14:30that course so who is this not for
389. 14:33it is not for people who like the idea
390. 14:36of being a designer more than the
391. 14:38process of creating it is also not for
392. 14:41people who make excuses and don't take
393. 14:43responsibility for their own learning
394. 14:45and progress
395. 14:46and it's not for anyone who is not
396. 14:48prepared to roll up their sleeves get
397. 14:51out of the comfort zone and take action
398. 14:53to get results if all of this sounds
399. 14:55like something you're interested in then
400. 14:58here is what you will get exactly
401. 15:00the course contains all the key
402. 15:02information regarding the requirements
403. 15:04of different Top BA courses it contains
404. 15:07eight modules focusing on the most
405. 15:09important skills and hundreds of
406. 15:12research references and research
407. 15:14databases as well as hundreds of
408. 15:16Sketchbook pages and portfolio examples
409. 15:20also if you feel like you need photo
410. 15:21support as in addition to the course I'm
411. 15:24offering one-to-one consultations call
412. 15:27I look forward to sharing this course
413. 15:29with you to get instant access click the
414. 15:32link below