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Training · CDTIN, with the City Boy Movement

Fashion & Design with AI

Design clothes and brands with AI, and get them made. Seven modules from a sketch nobody can sew to a finished collection a tailor can cut, a lookbook a buyer can read, and a price you can defend.

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Watch the first lesson

What the generator is genuinely good at

Every subject in this course opens with a short explainer like this one. It stops once to ask you a question. The rest of the lesson is practice.

What you finish holding

Your own small collection — six to eight pieces designed, specified and priced — presented as a lookbook a buyer or tailor can work from, with at least one piece actually sewn or costed to the last button.

The seven modules

Taken at your own pace, on your phone. Nothing closes, so a busy week costs you nothing.

  1. What AI changes about designing clothes, and what it does not
  2. From idea to a design a tailor can read
  3. A collection, not eight unrelated clothes
  4. The specification: what a workshop needs from you
  5. Costing and the price on the tag
  6. The brand around the clothes
  7. The lookbook, the catalogue and the first order

Free from start to finish

Every design exercise runs on free image generation reachable from a Nigerian phone, and every document — specification, lookbook, costing sheet — is built in free tools. No subscription is needed to finish the collection.

When paying becomes worth it

Paying buys resolution and volume, which starts to matter when you are producing catalogues for paying clients or printing. Module seven shows the arithmetic against a real order rather than a guess.

What it leads to

Nigeria already buys design. What is scarce is somebody who can show a buyer exactly what they will get before it is cut, and cost it without guessing.

  • Bespoke orders from your own catalogue. A designed, costed piece sold to order. The course costs a real garment from fabric at ₦3,500 to ₦12,000 a yard through labour to the tag price, so the margin is a number and not a hope.
  • Selling designs to tailors and workshops. A specification pack a workshop can cut from, sold per design or per season. The pack is exactly what module four teaches you to write.
  • Production runs and small-batch wholesale. Moving from one-off to twenty units: what a workshop needs from you, what a minimum order means, and how a batch price differs from a bespoke price.
  • Design and visual work for other fashion businesses. The same AI skills applied as a service: product images without a photoshoot, catalogues, and brand marks. Commonly ₦15,000 to ₦80,000 a set.

Offered free, to anyone in Nigeria, by the Capacity Development Training Initiative in collaboration with the City Boy Movement.

How to join

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