The sixth workshop of the FAD Fashion Futures programme saw the students beginning to translate their 2-D designs into 3-D reality. They were finalising the first drafts of their patterns,
After a Saturday off for half term, the Fashion Futures students came back refreshed and ready for an intensive morning’s pattern cutting! The fifth workshop of the Fashion Futures programme
The content-packed fourth workshop began with an introduction to technical drawings, the specifications designers send to manufacturers, including all the technical details necessary to construct the garment as intended – such
The third week of workshops had the students trying different ways of developing their design ideas – in 3-D, draping fabric on the stand, and in 2-D, with pen and
After last Saturday’s intensive creative research day, this week the Fashion Futures students got hands-on with introductions to pattern cutting, draping, and sewing on the industrial machines – all key
A huge thank you to all of you who Voted FAD and shared our campaign last November. We’re delighted to have been selected as one of the beneficiaries of NatWest’s
The 15th edition of Fashion Futures, FAD’s award-winning programme of industry-led fashion workshops for teens, launched on Saturday 26th January 2019 at the V&A in South Kensington. 2019’s cohort
As London Fashion Week drew to a close, twenty young designers made a memorable debut at the FAD Fashion Futures Final Monday evening. Through FAD’s unique Fashion Futures programme, these
‘I have religious beliefs and I didn’t want to compromise them,’ begins Faika-Rudaba Chowdbury, an FAD finalist and designer working on a jacket inspired by modestwear. ‘I want to make
