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Fashion and Textile Design

female student measuring her fashion piece on a mannequin
Getting Ahead

Fashion and Textile Design 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 fashion illustrations 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; 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. These could be done in a range of media and styles such as painting, collage, photographs or any other media you have access to.
  • Research other illustrators on Pinterest and respond to their styles
  • 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.

Resources

Meet your Lecturers

  • fashion lecturer carla sanders

    Carla Sanders

  • fashion lecturer maria stones

    Maria Stones

  • Paul Parsons

  • Emma Plato

  • Martyn Baldock

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Your Learning Space

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

The teaching has been really good, I’ve loved all of my teachers, they’ve all been really nice and supportive.

Jodie Hook

My time at the college was definitely life changing, I have learnt a lot of new skills, and obviously it’s a completely new experience. The support was great, there was always people there to help and try make it as easy as they can for you. The college is really fantastic, it has helped me on the way to get to what I want to achieve within my career goals.

Erin Morgan, BTEC student

This is a really good college, and it is definitely somewhere you can achieve your dreams.

Yolanda Stemp, BTEC student