BA(Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear
BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear offers students the opportunity to develop a creative and experimental design process which is supported by a high level of technical skill and knowledge. Students are encouraged to use their vision and skills to challenge and progress the industry at large. LCF’s Womenswear has opportunities to work with students from other majors and students have extensive connections to the fashion industry. The concept of sustainable development will be applied throughout the teaching process in order to develop conscious and responsible students. Students will be taught the basics of design and fashion, and will be familiar with mastering and defining methods through a series of challenging projects. The aim is to develop students’ critical thinking and independence. The school offers internships and has recently worked with brands such as Marc Jacobs, Gareth Pugh, Giles Deacon, Peter Pilotto and Simone Rocha. LCF Womenswear graduates have worked for brands such as Celine, Thom Browne and Chanel. Womenswear provides graduates with the necessary combination of creative, technical, intellectual and communication skills needed to be successful within the competitive field of womenswear fashion design. Womenswear’s three-year course is credit based, with 120 credits leading to the next level of study. In the first year, the teaching content is to introduce the relevant knowledge of Womenswear, how to design and realize the production of clothing, and study the fashion culture and history. In the second year, students will be led in professional product development and will be offered a 10-week internship. In the final year students summarize their knowledge and produce their own graduation work.
BA(Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear
Menswear will equip students for a career in menswear design for a brand or to establish their own business, as well as preparing them for postgraduate study opportunities. The course offers a creative approach to the design and realisation of contemporary menswear. Technical skills including innovative cutting, fabric sourcing and construction are taught alongside core skills in research, design, communication and presentation. Students of this course have the opportunity to participate in projects with global brands and can work in established and emerging companies both at home and abroad. Students graduate with a wide range of design skills that enable them to work in the fashion industry. There are plenty of examples of graduates going on to work for high-end fashion houses. Burberry, Chanel and Lanvin. There are many outstanding graduates from LCF’s Menswear , such as Savvas Aleksander, Scarlett Di and Joanna De Ligt. And this course has a strong faculty. All of them have experience working for well-known fashion companies, some of them also graduated from UAL. LCF’s Menswear is a three-year course with three semesters per year. The teaching mode is mixed teaching mode. Including online lectures, online classes, physical workshops and practical teaching, Online tutorials and physical and online critiques. At the beginning of the first academic year, this course will systematically introduce Menswear to help students reflect on their own background and understand the practice and knowledge base required by the discipline. Then various research methods will be introduced to explore their relevance and application in design. Students are advised to use media to document the work and introduce practical skills through demonstrations of tailoring and clothing construction. At the end of the course, students are required to make a garment. This year will also study the culture and history of clothing, explore innovative tailoring and techniques, and understand the structure and principles of clothing. In the second semester students will learn customer-related design, understand skills including negotiation, presentation, professional communication, customer and market analysis, and enter a professional environment to develop skills. Students will have a ten-week internship and will provide feedback at the end of the work. There will also be team work projects and introduction of key employment skills for the final semester to gather information for critical analysis and finally complete a design proposal. In the final semester, students are expected to define the content of their final project as a designer and start to practice. This is the pinnacle of a student’s undergraduate career and demonstrates the student’s ability to construct, direct and organize an overall professional outcome. Menswear is a course that focuses on pattern and craftsmanship, balancing art and commerce. In my opinion, LCF’s Menswear major attaches great importance to the cultivation of students’ business orientation. Students can systematically learn complete knowledge about Menswear in the undergraduate stage, covering history, culture and future development trend, which provides good technical support for students’ future employment.
BA(Hons) Fashion Textiles: Kint
The Textiles department at London College of Fashion consists of three pathway degrees (Print: Knit; Embroidery) each having a specialist focus, whilst encouraging varied and diverse textile design responses. The Textiles team have a renowned reputation for fostering individuality with our creative makers and we equip you with the tools to become a visionary textile designer for the broader context of fashion. You can exploit your creative potential and respond to the world around you within a specialist fashion environment that stimulates a culture of creativity. This course encourages students to use their imagination and incorporate their own interests, beliefs and personal design styles into their work. Interdisciplinary collaborative projects are incorporated into the teaching process. The school is well equipped to provide state-of-the-art knitting equipment including needle-free looms. Students taking this course will explore a variety of ways to develop their own ideas, using a professional textile studio for creative practice through experimentation with materials and techniques. Students will discuss issues of sustainability, identity and ethics in depth, with a variety of analyses for different levels of the fashion market. Moreover, the school provides students with abundant internship opportunities and competition places. The contents of the first year include Introduction to Fashion Textiles: Print; Knit; Designs, Experimental Process: Knit; Designs, Fashion Cultures and Histories, Introduction to Industry Practice and Better Lives. Students will be introduced to core skills, adapting project topics to their own interests to develop students’ creative and analytical skills. Students’ drawing, making and professional skills will also be improved. Students will also explore social issues such as diversity, social responsibility and sustainability, linking fashion to life. In the second year, students will learn Critical Issues in Fashion Research, Future Craft, Critical Issues in Fashion Research, Designer Identity and Work Experience. Futurocraft is the key to study in this academic year, where students are asked to think about the future of textile design, promoting sustainable development of textile design by considering environmental, social and cultural impacts, traditional crafts and the application of modern craft techniques. Students are required to choose a topic covering the study of current fashion culture in preparation for their final year of study. In the final year students will begin to develop their own design themes and concepts, and conduct experimental testing and prototyping to generate innovative potential. The final result is a series of textile works. This major mainly studies the basic theories and professional knowledge of textile art design, which is a comprehensive major of texture design and material design. Compared with clothing design, fabric design is more basic, but also has more extensibility and creativity. Many people think that fashion design determines the future of fashion, but actually fabric design is. Because clothing is only a carrier of the final selection of fabric, clothing, carpets and curtains are all the results of fabric design.
BA(Hons) Fashion Jewellery
BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery is founded on four key principles: craft and technology, sustainable practice, performance, and identity; these principles inform all teaching on this course. This is the only jewellery course embedded in a fashion-dedicated college. Students can collaborate with other fashion majors. The course is supported by guest lectures with industry partners which have included designers Noel Stewart, Michelle Lowe-Holder and Melanie Georgacopoulos, as well as live briefs and competitions. The course is very personalized, with many modules for students to choose according to their own interests and development direction. Moreover, the school provides perfect facilities, including not only the traditional fitter studio, but also the digital production studio. To help students master both traditional and digital production. In the first four units of the course, the teaching content will focus on the basic techniques and principles of jewelry design, such as how to use traditional jewelry fitter technology and digital design and manufacturing technology, how to experiment with sustainable materials, and how jewelry is worn and displayed. The purpose is to help students develop their unique views on Fashion Jewellery. For the next three years, each year is divided into two parts. In the first year, students will learn about Introduction to Fashion Jewellery and Jewellery Design and Technology. Sustainable Futures and Fashion Cultures and Histories will be followed. The content will help students familiarize themselves with fashion theory and think about how to respond to changing markets through collaborative projects. In the second year, students need to think about different industry backgrounds and scenarios, and design a product and try mass production. And write an article about fashion research. The school will provide students with the opportunity to work in a jewelry company for 10 weeks in order to gain more experience in the industry. In the final year of the undergraduate program, students are expected to do a well-developed set of projects, with topics that are allowed to come from areas of personal interest, and to support the development of the final product through a research article related to the student’s design philosophy and interests. Fashion Jeweiiery belongs to the category of accessories in LCF. Generally speaking, this major redefines jewelry under a broad Fashion cultural background. There are four key principles in LCF Fashion Jewellery: process and technology, sustainable practices, performance and identity. These principles run through all teaching of the course.
BA(Hons) Fashion Styling and Production
BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production prepares you for a career in fashion media, working as a Stylist and Creative Producer. the course offers a multi-disciplinary approach to styling and production and explores fertile new territories within fashion cultures, responding directly to contemporary fashion practice, trends and its visual manifestations. This course can be shared with other majors in media to achieve interdisciplinary learning. The whole course is actually a preparation process for entering the media industry. The school may collaborate with projects, activities or competitions outside the school. Cross-school programs provide students with new networking and networking opportunities. And the course is very personal, with three optional units for students to choose from. The three-year course of Fashion Styling and Production is on a credit basis, with the number of credits required to proceed to the next stage of study. In Stage 1 you are required to complete 120 credits at level 4 in order to progress to Stage 2. They include Introduction to Fashion Styling and Production(20 credits), Key Concepts in Styling(20 credits), Fashion Cultures and Histories(20 credits), Key Concepts in Production(20 credits), Collaborative Practice: Fashion Spreads(40 credits). In Stage 2 you are required to complete 120 credits of which a minimum of 100 must be at level 5. They include Critical Issues in Fashion Research(20 credits), Mediating Fashion(40 credits), Situating Your Practice: Media Placement / Situating Your Practice: Fashioned Spaces(20 credits), The Fashion Consultant(40 credits). In Stage 3 you are required to complete 120 credits at level 6. They include Collaborative Experimental Practice(20 credits), Dissertation Media(40 credits), Personal and Professional Project(60 credits). This course will often be taught by visiting Practitioners, who have outstanding achievements in the fashion industry. For example, Clare Copland, a fashion show producer. I think Fashion Styling and Production is a discipline based on Fashion Design, which is between Fashion Business and Fashion Design. Fashion Styling and Production is not so much a fashion course as an overall course of fashion discipline. It focuses on a lot of collaborative practice, training stylists who can recreate new and workable expressions in the clothing and luxury industries. It can be said that Fashion Styling and Production bring Fashion design works and ideas to the audience in a more artistic way.