Fashion Design Technology: Menswear BA (Hons)

BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology Menswear will give you the skills you need to be a successful creative designer for international fashion menswear. <br/><br/>**What can you expect?** <br/><br/>BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology Menswear focuses on creative approaches to design and realisation. This course promotes innovative cutting, fabric sourcing and construction techniques. You will cover structured and unstructured clothing techniques. Through this course you will develop cores skills in research, design, development, realisation, communication and presentation, together with key business and marketing skills. <br/><br/>BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology Menswear will enable you to appreciate the cultural and historical context of your practice. This will allow you to develop your ability to critically evaluate your work and the work of others.<br/><br/>You will have the opportunity to undertake a short work placement in the industry. This gives you experience of working in a company and the chance to make contacts in the industry before you complete your studies.<br/><br/>London College of Fashion (LCF) undergraduate courses develop your personal and professional skills. On this course you will develop skills in your discipline until you are an independent creative thinker. Your skills will make you capable of making an effective contribution to this sector of the fashion industry. We embed Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills in all units on every course. Speaker programmes with contributions from alumni and members of industry are a part of many courses. We encourage graduates who wish to continue their education at postgraduate level to progress to suitable courses within the College, the University or elsewhere.<br/><br/>Students on course succeed in international competitions and many recent alumni have set up in business under their own labels. Many graduates prefer to seek employment as soon as they have completed their undergraduate studies. Recent graduates from this course have gained positions with Burberry, Hunter and Adidas. <br/><br/>This course is based at Curtain Road in Shoreditch. The Shoreditch area was at the heart of London’s clothing industry in the 17th-century and Curtain Road is home to many of LCF’s design, textiles and fashion courses. Nearby you will find Spitalfields and BOXPARK markets offering a wide range of crafts, fashion and food traders.<br/><br/>**About London College of Fashion**<br/><br/>London College of Fashion, UAL, has been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion. In design, we teach a combination of heritage and radical thinking. Craftsmanship and new technology. Engineering – and in-depth design research. We teach innovative ideas first – and then innovative practice to bring them to life. Through teaching, specialist research, and collaborative work, we empower our students to think differently, using fashion to examine the past, build a sustainable future, and improve the way we live.