Fashion Futures 1 2008

It’s a tall order: five days to learn the A-Z of fashion design. But that’s the what FAD Fashion Futures 1 helps Year 10 students to achieve, with week-long fashion workshops where participants create their own, made-to-measure outfit, and model it in a photoshoot and catwalk display.

This year, FF1 students are going “On Safari”, to create fashionable outfits inspired by East Africa, combining sand and desert shades with bright tribal patterns and animal inspired prints to create their own unique designs. Fashion Futures 1 covers everything from customising a t-shirt to heat transfer printing, making a garment to fashion illustration; and also offers the opportunity to learn about fashion styling and modelling.

“It shows you a range of skills you can use to continue in the fashion industry, and it gives a taster of what happens in the fashion life.”
VW, Parliament Hill School, Camden

“I enjoyed meeting new friends and working with them. The best things about the course is that the teachers showed us how to do things step by step.”
NT, Swanlea School, Tower Hamlets.

“The teachers were patient and made learning about fashion exciting.”
MM, Mount Carmel School, Islington

“The best thing was being able to create your own ideas and not having restrictions on what you can make.”
AO, St Thomas More School, Kensington & Chelsea

“The whole making thing, and the fashion show and the whole course was EXCELLENT!”
HG, Parliament Hill School, Camden

In 2008, FAD will be running 6 Fashion Futures 1 courses. If you are a teacher in one of these boroughs and would like to take part, please contact Reyes: reyes@fad.org.uk

Camden, Islington, Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea
31st March – 4th April 2008 at London College of Fashion

Salford.
23rd-27th June 2008 at the University of Salford

Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
7th-11th July 2008at London College of Fashion)

Newham – UEL
14th-18th July 2008 at the University of East London.

Newham – Newham College
21st-25th July 2008 at Newham College.

South London: Greenwich, Lewisham, Lambeth, Wandsworth and Southwark.
21st-25th July 2008 at Lewisham College.