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Fashion Design & Clothing Construction

female student measuring her fashion piece on a mannequin
Getting Ahead

Fashion Design & Clothing Construction UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma at South Downs Campus

This information will help you get a head start with developing ideas and concepts for your first project in Fashion. Building these foundations will help you to feel more confident and show us your capabilities prior to you starting your course in September.

Did You Know? A period of time portrayed in a picture can be identified immediately just by the style of clothes the people are wearing, and this sums up just how powerful and all-encompassing fashion is. … It influences not only what we wear, but everything we do, say, and even think. This is why fashion does indeed rule the world. (Source: fibre2fashion)

a student working on a piece of clothing

Capturing images of everyday life, of people doing everyday tasks and portraits of people through the decades has been a really important part of commenting on society; even more so in recent times.

  • Document your experiences at these unusual times. Photograph and draw what you can see around you. Collect found imagery and items that are a part of your life at the moment e.g. packaging from food or deliveries, drawings younger brothers/sisters have done, etc.
  • From this visual diary, develop a range of stimulating images that reflect your experience. Images could be drawings (in a range of media), painting, collage, photographs or any other media you have access to.
  • Produce a mood board with your preferred theme, also you could look for inspiration in social media with different hashtags on what people are looking for in the fashion world, for example, #fashion #quarantinechic #slowfashion etc.
  • Write a reflection on what you have done (200 words): what, how and why?

Watch the video in the ‘resources’ section.

Make some notes on your reflections and we will have time to talk about them during the first few weeks of College.

*This is a representation of your learning space and may not be the exact room you will be using

Resources

Meet your Lecturers

  • fashion lecturer carla sanders

    Carla Sanders

  • fashion lecturer maria stones

    Maria Stones

We look forward to seeing you soon!

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