CAD Brussels

Undergraduate - BA · 3 years · 180 ECTS

Fashion & Accessory Design

From creative intuition to runway. Design, prototype and present a full collection.

Two silhouettes from student fashion collections

Over three years, you learn to develop a fashion collection, from initial research to final production. You explore volumes, materials, fabric manipulation techniques, finishes and accessories, while building your technical mastery and creativity. You learn to define a brand identity, identify your target customers and build a coherent art direction. Finally, you produce at least eight silhouettes in final fabrics, presented through a professional photoshoot and a personal portfolio.

You will cover every fundamental of the trade: fashion drawing, flat pattern cutting, draping, sewing, textile printing, and accessory design (bags, shoes, jewellery). Mentored by working industry professionals.

In year 3, you produce a full collection presented at a runway show in Brussels. The annual show is the highlight of the program. Internships start from the first year. Year 1: 2 weeks during the Easter break, in a fashion shop, with a stylist, a costume designer or a fashion influencer, in a fashion PR agency or at a fashion magazine. Year 2: 2 weeks during the summer after year 1, in a different discipline from the first internship, then 3 weeks in a fashion house during the Easter break. Year 3: 4 weeks in a fashion house during the summer after year 2. After the end of the academic year, you complete an internship of at least six months in a fashion house.

The program maintains close ties with the fashion industry and the emerging Brussels fashion scene. All classes taught in English.

Private diploma, 180 ECTS, not state-approved.

180
ECTS over 3 years
1
Runway show in year 3
100%
Taught in English

Craftsmanship

From fashion drawing to runway.

  • Fashion drawing & illustration

    Silhouettes, movement, expressiveness.

  • Flat pattern & draping

    Pattern-making, prototyping, fitting.

  • Sewing & finishing

    Industrial machines, advanced sewing techniques.

  • Textile printing

    Screen printing, embroidery, weaving.

  • Accessory design

    Bags, shoes, jewellery.

  • Fashion art direction

    Lookbook, campaign, runway scenography.

Life in the workshop

What we do here, concretely.

01

The flou dress

Fashion & Accessory Design

This dress is imagined as smoke wrapping around the body, forming sculptural volutes and drapes to create a theatrical and majestic silhouette.

Transparency is at the heart of the design, subtly revealing the skin.

The aim of this project was to explore pleating, draping and other textile techniques while experimenting with volume.

The flou dress, a red dress of volutes and drapes
The flou dress, detail of the drapes
The flou dress worn

02

Wearable sculpture

Fashion & Accessory Design

“Rooted in raw materials, transformed into organic architecture.”

Created as part of a knit design course, this project explores a return to elemental materials through a handcrafted headpiece. I wanted it to embody the quiet, mystical atmosphere of the forest by blending organic elements like wood and cotton. Its main objective was to merge traditional fibre techniques with unrefined, natural textures, grounding a connection to nature through wearable sculpture.

Wearable sculpture, a knitted headpiece resting on branches
Wearable sculpture worn
Wearable sculpture, portrait

03

The Preppy Rebellion

Fashion & Accessory Design

This collection, “The Preppy Rebellion”, is inspired by a timeless kind of elegance: the academic elegance of the 1950s and vintage university uniforms.

It draws its essence from the atmosphere of British campuses, where intellectual traditions and sports practices come together. The collection is a tribute to the preppy aesthetic.

The collection follows Eleanor Whitmore, a literature student at Oxford.

The Preppy Rebellion, bag and accessories from the collection
The Preppy Rebellion, a silhouette from the collection
The Preppy Rebellion, detail of an outfit