What’s the next big step in your fashion business or career?

Professional training.

Enhance your skills and expand your business with training to suit a broad range of industry professionals. Yvonne can come into your business and offer customised training to suit your and your staff’s developmental needs. Get hands-on solutions applied to the real-world problems of your business.

Just some of our training solutions:

• Upskill your staff with onsite training to Style CAD from different systems

• Turn your sample cutter into a full-time pattern maker able to do pattern modifications and grading

• Style CAD training for garment manufacturers

• Learn how to digitise into Style CAD

• Learn advanced pattern making skills and pattern modification

• Upgrade manual pattern making skills to digital proficiency

• Learn how to use Adobe illustrator for technical drawings to better communicate with manufacturers

• How to increase your efficiency in your business 

• Gain fitting techniques and insight from 30+ years of experience in the fashion industry

Fashion business mentoring.

BUSINESS OWNERS

One-on-one mentoring is a fantastic way to get personalised, responsive feedback for your fashion business or career. Yvonne offers ongoing mentoring on all the above areas and more. For example, if you need some advice on how to grade a pattern, create a jacket sleeve, setting up a tech pack, how best to structure your design range or ANY technical and developmental difficulties you run into as you’re growing your fashion brand. Fashion smart can help take the next big step in your fashion business. 

FASHION STUDENTS

If you are moving into your new fashion career but lack specific skills or experience, then one-on-one mentoring can give you that extra edge you need to stand out. Perhaps you trained on Gerber, but what you really need is Style CAD. Or you need to extend your advanced patternmaking and grading skills so they can be applied in high-end or complex fashion. Maybe you’re looking for trusted fashion business development advice from an industry professional. Yvonne can offer all this and more to help propel you into your life in fashion.

Course and Assessment Content.

As a subject matter expert, Yvonne helps registered training organisations (RTOs) and non-accredited organisations create learning and assessment course content. Such as, developing learning guides, writing course content, and creating assessments that match evidence-based learning criteria.

Yvonne has been teaching the fashion course at Open Colleges for several years now, producing online content and resources to help students develop their practical skills and progress with the course. She has written several learning guides for Open Colleges. These include LMTFD4013B – Grade 2D Patterns, LMTFD5016B – Grade Shaped Patterns, MSS402051 – Apply Quality Standards. Yvonne has also created the assessments for many of the units in the Cert IV and Diploma of fashion design and technology course working with learning designers and management teams.