Fashion Textiles (Hons) London Metropolitan University

Overview

This Fashion Textiles (Hons)  course from London Metropolitan University will prepare you for a career in textile design for apparel. As a textile designer for fashion products you could find yourself creating and experimenting for fashion brands and houses, design studios, textile manufacturers or as an independent practitioner. 

Quick Facts:

• This sector offers a very large and diverse field for creative work, bursting with exciting opportunities for talented graduates.

• When you join the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Met you'll become part of a rich learning community. Their students aren't only encouraged to keep a finger on the pulse of the art and design world, but to stake their claims in driving these developments. 
• They recognise each student as an individual creative person with their own unique vision and personality. They work to ensure they have the confidence and self-knowledge to enter the professional arena of textiles, with pride in their identity as a creative force. You'll therefore find that once you join the course you'll have generous access to workshops and equipment from across the School. Think ceramics, woodworking and silversmithing alongside your sewing, screen printing and weaving facilities.

• As well as ensuring your creative learning experience is as rich and exciting as possible, They also keep your future in mind, and work to ensure you graduate with relevant experience. All second and third year projects are delivered in collaboration with industry partners, ensuring an awareness of the diversity of employment directions, and all second and third year students have the option to take part in relevant fashion textile industry group trips. Destinations have previously included London, Bradford, Paris and Florence.
• Textiles for fashion offers an ever-fertile environment for creativity and change. This course will train you in the traditions of the craft and process, with broad studies in materials, manufacture, colour and textural design, whilst saving plenty of space for the highly innovative individual and personal responses to the ever-changing fashion environment.

Career opportunities:

• Whether you aspire to be a craftsperson or a designer for the fashion industry working for a huge high street brand or a couture house, our Fashion Textiles BA (Hons) will prepare you for a bright and exciting career.

Upon graduating, you can enter the professional design and fashion design sectors in a variety of ways. Our alumni have pursued successful careers, including in:

• print and knitwear design
• editorial
• model casting
• teaching at all levels
• providing studio design work
• managing small design studios (either their own or as employees)
• their own businesses, including Iyanu and Georgia Farrell Design (working alongside established brands including Victoria Beckham, Timberland, Tommy Hilfiger Harrods, River Island and Zinc Design Studio)