This interdisciplinary course focuses on the creation of innovative textile surfaces and constructions for fashion through exploration of traditional craft and digital processes alongside investigation into new material and fabric constructions.

Course overview

This experimental and interdisciplinary textiles course will focus on the creation of innovative textiles surfaces, constructions, and structures for fashion. Through deep understanding, thorough testing, and exploration of traditional craft processes alongside investigation into new material and technological fabric construction innovations, you will produce outcomes that demonstrate the future of fashion textiles. This could involve new textile making technologies or processes, disrupting existing making processes, or making new fashion textile technological material.

Learning resources and lecture content will support your global perspective on resources and materials through exploring existing and emerging examples of fashion/textiles, brands and manufacturing.

We recognise the challenges facing the global textiles fashion industry and encourage you to rethink current industry practices through innovation, technology and future thinking.

What to expect

Digital and craft technology: Technical textiles education is well-established at LCF, with courses being run since the college’s inception over 100 years ago. This course will build upon this legacy and upon the success of our well-established BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles course with its three specialist areas of knit, print and embroidery, all of which benefit from the most extensive range of digital and craft industrial technology in the UK.

A holistic, analytical approach: On this course, you’ll be encouraged to imagine the future of your craft and your role as designers by exploring its past and present. In addition to rigorous research and analysis into technical areas, you’ll consider the cultural, social, and environmental impact of fashion textiles at a global level. Throughout the course you will build and extend your core research capabilities through written and oral/visual presentations in each unit. The study support programme at LCF is designed to meet the needs of all students from all levels and disciplines.

A sustainable focus: New research led, practice-based design methods devised to enhance sustainable and circular practice in the fashion and textile industry will be supported by LCF’s Digital Anthropology Lab, Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) and the Active Materials and Systems research group (AMSR).

Collaborative working: Collaboration with industry partners, LCF researchers and/or fellow students is embedded into the course and will be central to your learning experience.