The École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués DUPERRÉ, a parisian state founded college of applied arts, offers this year a series of creative workshops in Textile and Fashion design.

These workshops will allow the applicants to deeply increase their skill in creativity and develop their ability with experimental and innovative methods.

The school

> French school, founded in 1856, Duperré aims at developing courses in textile and environmental design.
Attached to the tradition of arts and crafts skills, it thus works at questioning the stakes inherent in those fields.
As a state-of-the-art fashion school, it is also filled with high-performing equipments (silkscreen printing, knitting, sewing, draping, thermoforming, laser cutting and computer design).

Moreover, as a major school, it keeps close connexions with luxury industries and contemporary design. Consequently, it sets out to regularly updates its teaching in order to match it with creative and innovative practices.

The courses will be given over 5 days from 9 am to 5 pm with one hour noon break.

Each student has to choose one workshop from these following descriptions :

> ATELIER 1 / “ creativity exercice ”, clothing focus

>> This workshop will experiment with different creative methods in order to constitute indexes of containing shapes, (clothing and accessories). It aims at creating a range of shapes whose outcome will be the making of models coming from different modalities of research.
Those creative methods question the relationship between clothing or/and accessories, fashion and the mass memory.
Those methods are experimented with a creative games which question at turns the clothing, the accessory, their stylistic identities and their functions. It is about here to leave behind expected and conventional configuration of clothing and object to explore new ways of resolving forms. This atelier is based on practical experience, the ability to own the object, to manipulate it and to question its limits, also based on our capacity to be surprised by incongruous and unusual possibilities of shape making.
>> With David Meyer, accessories designer, he also teaches Fashion communication and studio practice at Duperré’s fashion department,
and Anne-Cécile Sonntag, fashion designer, she teaches in the fashion creative studio at Duperré.
>> Open for 14 students (english or french language).

> ATELIER 2 / “ volume ” clothing and draping focus

>> This atelier focuses on reconsidering the figure, the notion of proportion, of « tombé, and the average body shape. Through a prior reconsideration of proportions of mannequin, one can therefore reconsider the proportion of the clothe which is dressed in. Creating a new unconventional size , we can question the unstructuring of clothing form and its consequences of wearing it. Here to return to the formulation of the body origine constitutes the first stage
of a longer exploration of ways of structuring clothing. This attempt to cast the body before casting the clothing represents a new method of exploring clothing forms.
>> With Valerie Batelot, technical designer, professor of pattern and draping.
>> Open for 8 students (english or french language).

> ATELIER 3 / “ embroidery ”  textile focus

>> This atelier examines the historical models of this art (uses, meanings, specific settings, confection of clothing fragments in which history and modernity establish a new dialogue.
>> With Ollivier Henry, he’s specialized in XVII, XVIII, and XIXth European dress,
opera and theatre dress maker, teaches embroidery at Duperré.
>> Open for 7 students (english or french language).

ATELIER 4 / “ textile exploration ” textile focus

>> This workshop questions textile as a flexible material and its impact on form. It uses techniques of embellishment, skills related to the treatment of the textile surface, in order to change its aspect touch or « tombé ». It will develop a technical and aesthetic approach around the textile and clothing materials.
This workshop falls in two parts.
A first experimenting step consists in using different mediums (fibres, materials, fixers, technologies) related to the textile surface and to the clothing surface.
The expectation is based on exploiting groups of words mentioning a group of actions applied to the textile material : to mince, to empty, to grate, to pierce, to make a hole, to cut, to freeze, to grease, to wet, to plaster, to crack, to spread, to add, to enjail, to swallow, to cover, to superpose, to dye, to cross out, top write, to shadow, to dot, to fill, to stain.
>> With Karin Capone et Diana Brennan, both professors at Duperré in Textile Department.
>> Open for 10 students (english or french language).