Year 8 - Art and design
Understanding the creative industries
Textiles and the creative industries
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Unit Summary
This unit starts by offering pupils insights into diverse career opportunities within the creative industries, looking at Fashion in more detail. It leads into a textiles unit exploring different elements of textiles and fabric manipulation
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explore how mood boards and illustrations show ideas in fashion.
Key Notes
- The creative industry is a broad sector that includes fashion, art, music, film and design areas.
- In fashion, designers often begin with a mood board to collect inspiration, colours and textures.
- Fashion silhouettes explore the shape and style of a garment.
- The fashion industry helps people express identity, culture and style.
- Fashion can challenge or reinforce stereotypes, especially around gender, body shape and culture.
Vocabulary To Learn
- fashion: the popular style of clothing, accessories, or appearance at a particular time
- mood board: a collection of images, colours, fabrics and textures that show the style or theme of a fashion idea
- illustration: a drawing that shows how a design might look, including the clothes, colours and fabric details
- silhouette: the popular style of clothing, accessories, or appearance at a particular time
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Fashion illustrators make finished garments.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
The creative industry is a broad sector that includes fashion, art, music, film and design areas. In fashion, designers often begin with a mood board to collect inspiration, colours and textures.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'fashion'
the popular style of clothing, accessories, or appearance at a particular time.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Fashion illustrators make finished garments. Correction: Fashion illustrators draw designs and ideas. They help fashion designers show what clothes will look like before they are made.
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