Creative careers: fashion designer
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can design and make a festival headdress
Key learning points
- A fashion designer is a person who creates original clothing and accessory designs.
- Some fashion designers, called milliners, specialise in designing and making hats, or headdresses.
- Headdresses can vary widely in concept, materials and influences.
Keywords
Fashion designer - a person who creates original clothing and accessory designs
Milliner - a designer or maker who specialises in creating hats and other headwear
Headdresses - a decorative covering or arrangement worn on the head
Common misconception
A fashion collection is an assortment of clothes and accessories with no common theme or coordinating colours.
Remind children that a fashion collection consists of clothes and accessories that share colours, fabrics, or themes designed to showcase the particular style of a fashion designer.
Teacher tip
For this lesson, children may wish to bring in small items from home to personalise their headdress.
Equipment
headbands or strips of card, glue, pipe cleaners, beads, pom poms, tactile materials
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What does the word promote mean when talking about a festival?
Q2.Which of these is a content creator mostly like to post to promote a festival?
Q3.Social media is ...
Q4.Why is it important to use social media safely and respectfully?
Q5.Why do some social media platforms have age restrictions?
Q6.How might content creators help promote a festival?
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.What does a fashion designer do?
Q2.What is a milliner?
Q3.Which of these is an example of a headdress?
Q4.What is the main reason festival headdresses are designed carefully?
Q5.Order the steps a fashion designer or milliner might take to make a festival headdress:
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