Fashion with Textiles BA (Hons)

**Summary**: Embracing knowledge and creativity in the pursuit of creative fashion innovation, this contemporary course is informed by key elements of culture, identity, sustainability, and making, situated by environment and place. As a creative fashion designer you will be immersing yourself in a fast-paced fluid global industry. You can complete an optional work placement year.**Course details**: This course nurtures conceptual and technological skills to foster new ways of thinking. You innovate practices of garment construction and creatively manipulate fabric around the body, developing skills desired by employers with experimentation that pushes your own creative barriers. Experienced professionals share their knowledge and passion in developing collections with a unique global and contemporary identity.Themes:Pattern cutting, drape, specialist pattern cutting techniques like Japanese cuttingFashion theory and fashion culturesFashion and identityThe fashion cycleSustainable fashionFashion and the environment**After the course**: Graduates have a wide range of career opportunities in fashion design, drape, millinery, accessories, fashion print, specialist garment construction and lingerie. By taking a work placement year you gain experience favoured by graduate recruiters and develop your technical skillset. You also obtain the transferable skills required in any professional environment.