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COUTURE DRAPING COURSE
Learn pattern cutting and garment construction through draping, fabric, and making.
The Couture Draping Course is a hands-on learning space for fashion designers, pattern cutters, and serious students who want to understand how clothes are really made.
This course focuses on construction, fabric behaviour, and three-dimensional thinking — not just sketches, blocks, or theory.
Fashion is learned by making, not just designing.
Much of fashion education focuses on ideas, images, and concepts. While these are important, they don’t teach you how a garment actually comes together on the body.
This course is built around draping and construction — working directly with fabric to understand proportion, balance, fit, and form. Draping allows you to see problems and solutions immediately, rather than trying to calculate them on paper.
This course is for you if:
- You’re a fashion student not getting enough hands-on training
- You’re a designer who wants to stop outsourcing technical work
- You’re a pattern cutter who drafts but hasn’t yet learned draping
- You want to work in luxury or couture-level fashion
- You’re tired of flat blocks, vague instructions, or being asked to “just make it work”
Taught by Arena
I’m Arena, a Senior Creative Pattern Cutter working in luxury fashion. My background is rooted in studio practice, where precision, fabric understanding, and construction are essential.
This course is a way of sharing how I work — through observation, draping, and careful decision-making — with people who want to build garments properly and understand the craft from the inside out.
Start here
If you’re new to draping or pattern cutting, these pieces are a good place to begin:
How to learn pattern cutting by studying the clothes you already wear
Do you really need a fashion degree? Read this before you decide
Pattern Cutting & Draping FAQ
Couture Draping Course
The course is currently evolving. If you’re interested in learning couture draping and garment construction properly, you can explore the course details or join the mailing list for updates.
