Please select how you would like to attend your Fashion course:
Level 2 : UAL Diploma in Fashion and Textiles (1 year course)
Level 3: UAL Extended Diploma In Creative Practice, Art, Design & Communication (2 year course)
Level 3: T Level Textiles and Fashion
Are you ready to take your first steps towards an exciting career in the Fashion and Textiles industry? Do you have a keen interest in design and an excitement and passion for learning how to create? If so, this is the right course for you. During your course, you will learn a variety of skills to help you on your journey towards becoming either a fashion or textiles practitioner.
Pattern cutting and drafting, surface design, print design, constructed textiles, design development, garment construction, fashion illustration, drawing, digital fashion using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop and fashion photography are amongst the many useful skills you will acquire and develop on our fashion and textiles course.
During your studies, you will carry out your work in our specialist textiles and fashion studios, industrial sewing machine studio, pattern cutting area, textiles studio, print studio, Mac suite that will enable you to develop a range of skills in fashion and textiles that will provide you with an excellent foundation in the fashion and textiles Industry.
You will also learn how to present your completed course work in appropriate formats and develop a digital and creative portfolio and be supported for future progression to University, Employment or an apprenticeship after your course ends.
Modules and Topics
Fashion: Over the two year will be become proficient within garment design, pattern drafting and cutting, garment construction, technical construction and fashion photography all to a professional standard.
Textiles: Explorative and experimental range of textile techniques, from knitting and weaving, embellishing to machine embroidery to surface print all of which are used to within your fashion designs.
Drawing: Observation techniques, mark making, still life, life drawing, fashion illustration and many more techniques to develop your drawing skills to help you visualise your ideas.
Digital Fashion: Mood board, fashion flats, digital fashion illustration, pattern design, Fashion GIFS plus many more digital techniques to help design and promote your fashion and textiles designs.
We also run our part time Passport to employment & Garment technology course. This is a 6 week course we run throughout the year.
You will learn how to use a sewing machine, design and make your own work, providing you with the skills and experience you need to gain employment in the textile and manufacturing industry.
Units covered include:
- Soft Furnishings
- Industrial Garment Construction
- Introduction to Tailoring
- Garment Construction Craft
- Introduction to Accessories/Bags
Your work will be assessed and on successful completion of the course you will achieve a level 2 certificate in Fashion and Textiles and a Level 1 Award in Employability. This course is free to those claiming benefits and to 16-18 year olds.
Work Experience
It is very important that you develop your experience within your industry and that you complete work placement opportunities. We can support you with this and our tutors have excellent industry links with relevant employers. We also invite employers and organisations to come in to offer you opportunities to complete projects and tasks, and have industry master classes and guest speakers from your industry specialism who will broaden your understanding of the career routes that you may choose to follow.
So far, our fashion and textiles students have completed work experience within design organisations and local design trade and fashion shows. Students have had the opportunity to work directly with independent designers, model within fashion shows, create design collections, work with pattern cutting team, working live briefs creating a range of outcomes.
You will be continuously assessed to establish what you have learnt from each module and assignment.
To ensure you are ready for a demanding and successful career in fashion and textiles industry, many of your assessments are in line with the industry standards and protocols. This means you may be asked to pitch your ideas, present planning documents that meet professional standards for your intended productions, create productions for specific target audiences, or work with an employer to create a solution and outcome for a project.
With each project, you will be asked to produce a portfolio of evidence, which is also formally assessed by your tutors at various points throughout the year. While one to one tutorials will discuss your progress and set you new and stretching targets to ensure you are always aiming high and making good progress.
Your final grade is established through your final major project, where you will use a selection of the skills and techniques that you have learnt, practised and developed on the course, and design & create a media product of your own choosing. This project is examined by external moderators and is exhibited for your peers and tutors to assess.Our Level 2 fashion and textiles course is designed as a pathway onto our Level 3 fashion and textiles course. After completion of Level 3, progression options include university, apprenticeship, or full time employment. Possible employment routes include fashion design, textiles design, surface pattern design, garment technologist, pattern cutter, knitwear design, children’s wear design, contour design, fashion buyer, fashion forecaster, costume design, weave designers, fine art textile, print designer, fashion marketing and merchandising, stylists and fashion photography.
Students who choose to continue their studies generally progress onto a variety of Higher Education courses including fashion design, textiles in practice, costume design, contour design, surface pattern design, fashion business and merchandising. Previous students have secured places at universities such London College of Fashion, Westminster, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Liverpool Institute of Performance, Huddersfield, Leeds College of Art.
Our part time Garment and employment course is a great way to kick start a career in Production operatives, garment technology roles, pattern drafter/grader or supervisor roles in the textiles industry.
Entry Level Courses:
Skills for Life & Work/Preparing for Adulthood
No formal qualifications are required
for this course.
These courses are specifically designed for learners with a Special Educational
Need (SEND).
Entry Level: Skills & Employability
No formal qualifications are required
for this course.
Full Time ESOL (English
for Speakers of Other Languages)
No formal qualifications are required for this course.
Full Time GCSE Re-sit Study
Course
GCSE Grade 2 or 3 in Maths and
English and / or Sciences.
Full Time Level 1 Course
No formal qualifications are required
for this course.
Full Time Level 2 Course
4 GCSEs at grade 3 or Vocational Level 1 in relevant subject area.
*GCSE Grade 4 or above in Maths is required for the courses below:
Accounting
Electrical
Plumbing
Full time Level 3 Course
5 GCSEs at Grade 4-9 including English or Maths (Functional Skills Level 2 English or Maths will be accepted).
OR
Vocational Level 2 plus Grade 4-9 GCSE English or Maths (Functional Skills Level 2 English or Maths will be accepted).
*A Vocational Level 2 is required for the following courses:
Accounting
All Construction Subjects
Hair & Beauty Subjects
Applied Science
T Levels
5 GCSEs at Grade 4-9 including English and Maths (Functional Skills Level 2 in English and Maths will be accepted).
* Health T Levels require GCSE Grade 4 in Science.
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If you are aged between 16 and 18 when you start your course and are taking a course leading to a qualification, the tuition and exam fees are free. However, there may be some additional costs for optional trips, recommended text books and professional start up kits. We have a bursary scheme to assist with these costs.
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