BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles

More about this course

Study fashion textiles for your undergraduate degree and you'll graduate ready to take on 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. 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. Our 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. We recognise each student as an individual creative person with their own unique vision and personality. We 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, screenprinting and weaving facilities.

As well as ensuring your creative learning experience is as rich and exciting as possible, we 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.

You'll also learn about the increasing research into and adaptation of historic materials and processes for textile design, enabling you to reflect on the value of different approaches adapted to current contexts and the global fashion environment. These approaches include striving for more local procurement, slower and more careful design and fabrication and greater consideration for the longevity and durability of designed products.

Visit @textiles_ldnmetarts to take a look at work from our current students and graduates.

Assessment

Assessment is inclusive and based upon practical work, reflective practice, presentations and written formats. You’ll be given regular feedback on your project and participation throughout the course.