Abstract

LIMA, Jonathan Gurgel de  and  ITALIANO, Isabel Cristina. Fashion design teaching: using draping as a pedagogical tool. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2016, vol.42, n.2, pp.477-490. ISSN 1678-4634.  https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-9702201606140330.

This article discusses questions pertaining to the role of formal education in building the creative potential of young professionals. In approaching higher education in fashion, the paper indicates the possible causes of demotivation in students when faced with disciplines involving creative practice. In addition to students’ technical difficulties to express their design ideas, another obstacle we found is that students are not required to provide predefined results. Building on studies of researchers that attribute students’ creative block to a stagnant formal education that fails to privilege human development, this paper raises the hypothesis that a tool common in fashion professionals’ daily practice is still unexplored to its full potential. This tool is draping, which is most commonly used in the creation of fashion molds in three dimensions. We advocate that the use of draping techniques in the creative process has underexplored potentialities which can contribute to enhance fashion design teaching, develop students’ creative potential, motivate learning, and serve as an option in expressing ideas for clothing. In this work, we present the content and results of a creation activity using draping, which was conducted with the purpose of testing and verifying the hypotheses raised here.

Keywords : Draping; Education; Fashion design.

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