Fashion & Textiles

Fashion and Textiles courses blend creativity with technical skills, focusing on designing, creating, and understanding fabrics and garments
The topic coverss the entire process of garment creation, from the initial design concept to the finished product. You will delve into fabric properties, garment construction, textile design, fashion illustration, and trend forecasting. The fashion and textiles industry offers diverse opportunities, from high fashion to mass-market production, with growing demand in sustainable fashion and textile innovation. Creativity, trend awareness, and technical skills are highly valued.

Some of the topics covered include:
• Fashion and textile design
• Fashion illustration
• Textiles techniques and processes
• Pattern cutting
• Garment construction
• Fabric manipulation
• Conceptual ideas generation
• Art history / contextual studies
•The creative economy
•The individual in the creative industries
•Cultural context and vocabulary
•Legislation/ regulation
•Professionalism and ethics
•Equality, diversity and inclusion
•Research skills
•Project methodology and administration
•Continued professional development
•Textiles and sewn products, the disciplines and associated techniques required i.e. stitch, knit, weave and print

Work is assessed by course staff throughout the year using:
• Coursework assessment
•Actual work made
• Group tutorials
• Group discussions
• Presentations
• Annotated sketch books
• Written work
• Project based assessments
• End of year exhibition

There are a number of essential items needed for this course. A tailored starter pack is available to purchase from the college (this will contain essential equipment). Letters are issued at enrolment which include details of content and costs.

There is an expectation that learners take part in educational visits tailored to their programme of study. The costs for these vary and can be compulsory.

The progression table shows you all of our creative, performance and media subjects along with the levels you are likely to study at depending upon your final GCSE grades. Offers will be made based on your indicated grades and the levels available within the progression table.

- No GCSE results for Level 1
- 3x GCSEs at grade 3 including English & Maths for Level 2
- 4 x GCSEs at grade 4 including English & Maths for Level 3
- 5 x GCSEs at grade 4 including English & Maths for T Level Level 3