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SAIC faculty member Compton Quashie, a Black artist wearing a blue shirt, and flowers in their hair.

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Compton Quashie

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Compton Quashie (they/them) is a Black, queer artist, designer, educator, and cultural worker whose interdisciplinary practice engages the intersections of fashion, performance, and diasporic studies. Grounded in both material research and community-based methodologies, their work examines how Black diasporic communities utilize textiles, fashion, movement, and sound as technologies of cultural preservation. Born and raised in Chicago’s Hyde Park, their practice is shaped by Black cultural spaces as sites of knowledge production, autonomy, and collective care. Their research investigates how aesthetics, craft traditions, and embodied practices circulate across the African diaspora, operating as mechanisms for cultural continuity and socio-political resistance.

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Description

Students in this course create, manipulate, and sew patterns that cover the lower half of the female form. Students learn to draft a basic skirt and pants to develop professional slopers, build waistbands, pattern pockets, and fly fronts.

Previous sewing experience is required. The SAIC ACE course Sewing Techniques: Fundamentals would provide you with an introductory experience.

Note: A sewing machine is required if taking this course online.

Note: A sewing machine is required if taking this course online.

Class Number

2433

Credits

1

Description

As a project-based course, Fashion Design III teaches primary and secondary topical research, and in the context of a historical and cultural framework, students establish their personal point-of-view in fashion. Students will create in-depth research journals and develop a personal visualization style. Students will learn expansive fabric manipulations that lead to distinct styling and collection development to support capsule collection (three looks) development in intermediate studio. Particular attention is given to the use of color, texture, patterns, and design refinement. 
Pre req: Student must have completed FASH 2900 or receive instructor permission. Instructor permission will be granted with the completion of any 2 of the following Fashion Design classes: FASH 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2023, 3005, 3016, 3033. For Summer 2024, this includes a portfolio review as well.

Class Number

1423

Credits

3