This is a full-time creative department, designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills required for a successful career within the exciting and ever-widening fashion and textile industry. The new curriculum is designed to develop and establish your fashion and textile design skills, which will enable you to enter a broad choice of career options. The course content will include draping, pattern cutting, manufacturing, production, embellishment, print, CAD and mixed media. To ensure you have the relevant skills to enable you to advance and flourish in your chosen career, the course will also cover: styling, illustration, marketing and promotion, and professional practice. During the course you will be encouraged to develop a highly individual, ideas-based portfolio which can be used for interview and as a promotional tool to support freelance work.