Kari Landen

When you apply for a foundation or BA course in fashion, it is important to have pictures of 3D work in your portfolio. Draping is an intuitive, playful and enjoyable way for anyone to to create fashion ideas. By working with fabric and pins on a dummy-figure you inspire yourself and visualise your ideas in a quick way without making actual garments. By twisting, folding, gathering and layering fabric you can get the most amazing results. You will create your own research before you start to drape and sketch. Working in a sketchbook as well as working with fabric on a dummy will help you to develop and build up your ideas for shapes and details that will form a fashion collection. This collection will be made into a presentation for your portfolio at the end of the course.

Kari Landen graduated from a BA at Saint Martins in 2004. After a succesfull graduation show she was appointed first assistant designer at Ann-Sofie Back where she stayed for two years. In 2008 she graduated from the MA (womenswear) at CSM. She is currently teaching across the London University as well as setting up her own business.