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SORAYA BAKHTIAR
Designer-clad feet rooted deeply in her desire to share her creative vision and original style with designers, Soraya is a faceted force all her own, navigating fashion’s offerings with effortless class.

Nurtured and inspired by her mother who revels in the world of knitwear and grandmother respected for her writings.

Soraya graduated from the renowned London College of Fashion with a Fashion Journalism Master’s degree, counting internships with for renowned publications such as Elle UK and Tank Magazine and worked as a PR for Elie Saab in 2013. After devoting herself to the label with vigor, Soraya made the fortuitous decision to concentrate solely on her popular blog and exciting freelance opportunities. Which is indeed making a great progress.

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PRIYANKA CHOPRA
She gained name and fame not only in India but she has also proved herself at the international level. She is a celebrity who has inspired many girls to achieve their dreams.

Priyanka is my role model, due to her dedication and utter focus into her work life she has got what she wanted as she dares to dreams and works hard thus, it reflects into her recent professional career and her growth. 'She proved when an Indian woman pushes her limits off she can manage to hold the world in her two hands'.

Priyanka did three years of school in the US, and the rest in India from the Army School, Bareilly. She started college in Mumbai, but left it midway after she won the Miss World title in 2000, and of course, entered Bollywood as a direct repercussion of it.

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1. How would you describe yourself?
-I am fun, caring, kind and a creative person who likes to push all the boundaries and accept challenges.
2. Tell us about you current course?
-Currently studying at Uxbridge College undertaking a Level 3 fashion design course. Which explores fashion , textiles , illustration, photoshop skills. This course provides me all the basis fundamental of fashion and builds my knowledge.
3.What do you think the -university will offer you?
A BA course will expose me to a creative professional industry. Exploring historical, social and cultural issues of the projects will enable me to develop my own signature style. Competing in an industry focused, work based learning, professional extended projects and working through tutorials and lectures will further provide me with insight to the textile industrial environment. uni will offer me a good secured professional career.
4.What do you consider yourself best at?
-Sustaining Strong contextual research and showcasing through my garment, textile design also experimenting with textures and color.
5.What else apart from study, interests you about university?
-The atmosphere , the workshop which are provided with are open asses. Collaborations with other departments students.

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JOB research

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Design your future

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PROS: No printing cost, its close to my house thus, the building is quite modern and new with fantastic resources.

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Fashion Textiles BA Honours | Middlesex University London

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Come join our Fashion Textiles degree and learn practical skills using our state-of-the-art facilities. Find out more!

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PROS: Amazing facility, undertakes workshops in print, weave, knit. Experiment with digital textile printing and laser cutting, as well as learning traditional techniques.

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Textiles - BA (Hons) - London Metropolitan University

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Our Textiles BA degree is lively and creative, encouraging you to explore the industry and apply your skills and ideas to visual research, design and textile making.

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fashion accessory design & textile futures

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BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textile Futures

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BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textile Futures focuses on fashion-led product design to create products with enhanced end-user experience, conceptual appeal and commercial viability.

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PROS: Good facility, including 3d workshop, easy for me to travel by train thus i can spend more time in the uni n work.

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Year 1

Introduction to Fashion Textiles: Knit; Print; Embroidery aims to introduce you to your course and its subject specialism as well as to effective learning and studentship at undergraduate level. It will orientate you to the practices and knowledge base needed to understand your discipline and help you to develop your skills for independent and collaborative learning, reflection and your own self-development. Students come from many diverse educational backgrounds and a part of this unit will enable to reflect on your own background and how that shapes the way you approach your course. This unit has three core purposes:

To introduce you to your discipline in the context of study at a Higher Education level

To introduce you to learning skills and the requirements of effective studentship at undergraduate level

To orientate you within your course, the College and the University

Emphasis is placed on the skills needed to locate, navigate and communicate information and ideas effectively and appropriately. You will be introduced to resources that support your studies. We will also discuss studentship, the importance of being an engaged and participatory member of the group and your own personal and professional development.

The Experimental Process: Knit; Print; Embroidery unit introduces you to a variety of research approaches for textile design and their relevance and application to the creative design process and realisation of ideas. Research and creative concepts are the basis for design ideas and this unit establishes the relationship between these areas and 2D/3D textile outcomes within a fashion design context. There will be a focus on the importance of research and creative concepts to inform the originality of design and its realisation. Visual communication and critical evaluation will be integral to this unit. You will be introduced to ways of recording your work in a visually stimulating, exciting and informative way using a variety of methods and media. You will be introduced to contextual textile practice and be expected to conduct independent research to develop design concepts within a relevant context, to realise and present innovative fashion textiles and related fashion design development ideas as appropriate for your specialism. Emphasis will be placed on the development of drawing and colour-focused presentation skills to develop design responses relevant to the project brief. The unit will also use IT programmes for design development, communication and presentation. You will be introduced to core practical skills within your textile specialism through demonstration and studio practice and will be encouraged to nurture innovation through an emphasis on drawing and an exploration of techniques. You will be asked to develop creative ideas that relate and expand upon your visual references to inform the final outcome and you will be encouraged to use resources in order to produce creative samples, which will further establish the link between 2D and 3D and the development of design. Independent study will help to further enhance skills learnt within sessions.

Introduction to Cultural and Historical Studies introduces the Cultural and Historical Studies approach to fashion and related areas. The unit provides a broad overview of the subject and introduces key concepts and ways of thinking that will form the basis of subsequent study. It will also inform decisions regarding the Cultural and Historical Studies unit that is chosen for future study.

Introduction to Industry Practice asks you to research and develop a range of fashion textiles that shows your response to an identified market. You will be introduced to areas such as brand awareness, market levels, customer profiling and range building. Alongside your understanding of the fashion market you will need to critically evaluate the overall design quality of products. This unit will introduce you to an opportunity to work in cross-disciplinary collaborative activities that simulate industry practice. In response to a simulated and/ or professional brief you will be required to work in partnership or in small teams to contribute to the development and execution of core samples within a 'capsule collection'. The emphasis of this element is creative collaboration and team-working that balances the individual contribution within the collective output. Individually, this unit will also allow you to further research and critically develop sampling that show a specialist response to an identified market. The emphasis is on creative problem solving and developing solutions with your peers through discussion and negotiation, in your response to the brief requirements. Networking, communication, teamwork and presentation are all essential skills required to undertake the challenges of the creative industries.
Better Lives
London College of Fashion, UAL (LCF) is a leader in fashion design, media and business education. We have been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion. We encourage students to examine the past and challenge the present. To have inventive, assertive ideas that challenge social and political agendas. We give students the skills, opportunities - and above all, the freedom - to put those ideas into practice. By leading the way in fashion design, business, and the media, we influence culture, economics and our society.This unit will provide you with a solid understanding of LCF' core values and how they connect to your practice. As part of this unit you will explore diversity, social responsibility and sustainability, themes which you will then apply to a selected project. At this stage the emphasis is on how you apply your thinking across these important themes to your practice. Your thinking is more important than a finished piece of work at this point.Fashion can change lives. Through teaching, specialist research, and collaborative work, this unit will get you thinking differently. We want you to use fashion to examine the past, build a sustainable future and improve the way we live. That's why we call this unit 'Better Lives'.

Year 2

You will be able to study a Cultural and Historical Studies unit of your choice that will broaden or deepen your learning of areas relating to your interests in your chosen field. You will have the opportunity to participate in lectures, seminars and workshops with students from other courses within your School, and will read relevant academic texts and complete a formal academic essay for assessment. Further information on the options available will be provided during Year 1 of your studies.

The Future Craft unit requires you to carefully consider the future of textile design and production through research and consideration of the environmental, social and cultural impact of your textiles on a global level. To illustrate this, a dual emphasis will be placed on the innovative use of traditional hand and craft techniques with digital processes to promote the idea of sustaining textile crafts in the future. Using the skills developed in year 1, this unit will further develop your research, analysis and design development techniques. It will prepare you to predict, influence and inform global forecasting that inspires the fashion industry as well as increasing your contextual knowledge and technical skills within your specialism. There will also be an emphasis on professionalism through portfolio presentation and the development of interpersonal skills through formative peer presentation. In this unit, you will be asked to explore the possibilities of creating and promoting a directional range of fashion textiles to external clients including real or simulated industry and/ or cross course designers. The use of appropriate industry relevant software packages will be further developed in conjunction with the design and technical skills sessions, and should be used as a vehicle for both experimentation and clear communication of design ideas within a professionally presented body of work.

The Work Experience unit will provide you with the opportunity to further develop your skills and apply them in a professional environment. You will experience real industry challenges and working practice and will be able to examine the way in which a professional team respond to different situations. The unit will increase your awareness of the industry and the opportunities for career progression. You will be expected to take an analytical and reflective approach to the work experience and will produce written and visual evidence of your knowledge, based on a minimum 10-week period in industry. LCF Careers will provide career guidance in order to prepare you for your work experience. You will be expected to engage and be proactive in securing your own work experience, relevant to your skills and career aspirations, this means applying directly to companies. You will also be expected to provide feedback on your experience both during and after your work placement. The College Placement Handbook will provide additional support for this Unit.

Designer Identity will consolidate all of the processes that have been developed within previous units and challenge you to consider your place, role and identity within the fashion textiles industry. Through reflection and development you will be exploring your own design aesthetic and produce a body of work that shows an individual and directional response to client, market and product. This unit has two purposes:

individual creative textile exploration in response to brief;

realisation of textiles within cross discipline team collaboration.

You will be required to identify a justifiable creative concept within your specialist field of practice and investigate a personal response to the brief that will culminate in a range of design outcomes showing a deep understanding of research, analysis, design development, experimentation and manufacture. The unit will enrich your research skills and provide a basis for your work, especially in your final year of study. This unit emphasises teamwork and will offer you the opportunity to work as part of a design team and will introduce you to a range of key employability skills. There will be an emphasis on an awareness of the market along with a knowledge and critical evaluation of an overall design quality. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore and experiment with different critical and methodological approaches to research, while also introducing you to a range of established research methods and the role of research within design and technology. You will formulate a plan for future research into your subject specialism and construct a research proposal and presentation.

Final year

The Design Synthesis unit will inform and prepare you for the Final Major Project. You will be expected to negotiate a project brief that will allow for a full investigation into an exploratory research and practical journey culminating in a body of work that shows innovative design and technical experimentation with materials, process and potential 2D and 3D solutions to be considered, dependent on your specialist pathway. Projects may vary depending on your personal direction. You will be expected to engage in textile sampling and/ or prototype testing that will be evidenced through 2D and/ or 3D investigation as relevant to your specialism, within both your design and technical portfolios. The focus on this project is using your skills to show extensive documentation of creative experimentation in your specialist area of study considering hypothetical, analytical and physical conclusions. You will be expected to identify your proposed market and customer and, in a Statement of Intent, identify your core philosophy as a designer, in preparation for your Final Major Project. The completed investigations will form the basis of your collection for your Final Major Project.

Contextualising Your Practice allows you to build on your historical and theoretical understanding of fashion through a research-led extended essay. You will identify a topic, related to your field of practice, that you will investigate through design-led research methods and significant cultural and critical theories. It is an opportunity for you to undertake a substantial piece of structured research that examines fashion practice in context and it will build on the critical debates and concerns raised through your course.

The Final Major Project unit is the culmination of your undergraduate learning experience. Through the negotiation and development of a final major project you will be further demonstrating your innovative approach and deeper engagement, analysis and conclusions drawn from your Design Synthesis unit. You should now be refining and executing your design, design development and realisations established through a process of design synthesis. The negotiated Final outcomes will be individual fashion textile collections and/or balanced with 3D realisations through cross course collaborations highlighting the strengths of the partnership within each subject discipline. Through practical application you will be demonstrating your rigorous analysis in the exploration and development of your design ideas for fashion textiles. This unit provides the opportunity to apply your findings, discovered through your investigation of the challenges of your chosen brief. It evidences your ability to construct, direct and organise an overall professional outcome. This project is the vehicle for you to evaluate and reflect upon your own learning and skills in order to establish a potential career path.

Showing your work

All students are advised to set up a profile on portfolio.arts.ac.uk, UAL's new portfolio platform, which can be done at any point during your time at LCF and will last for up to 12 months after graduation. This platform is often used to source student work for promotional use on the website, social media and for print and can be a great way of getting your work seen. You may also be asked to have a portfolio profile for the selection process when it comes to degree shows.

The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:

One or a combination of the following accepted full level 3 qualifications.

Two A Level Passes at Grade C or above (preferred subjects include Art, Design, English and Maths);

Merit, Pass, Pass at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects Art & Design);

Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art and Design;

Pass at UAL Extended Diploma;

Access Diploma or 64 new UCAS tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma;

64 new UCAS tariff points (equivalent to 160 old UCAS tariff points) from a combination of the above qualifications or an equivalent full Level 3 qualification;

or equivalent EU or non-EU qualifications such as International Baccalaureate Diploma;

and Three GCSE passes at grade A*-C or grade 9-4.

Entry to this course will also be determined by assessment of your portfolio.

APEL (Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning)

Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

Related academic or work experience

The quality of the personal statement

A strong academic or other professional reference

OR a combination of these factors

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

English Language Requirements

IELTS level 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Please check our main English Language Requirements

Selection Criteria

The course team seeks to recruit students who can demonstrate:

A range of drawing skills and a commitment to drawing as a tool for communication and investigation

A strong awareness of the importance of colour

An understanding of research and how it underpins the design process

A strong interest in textiles and fashion and commitment to professional self-development, including independent learning

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, linked with an enquiring and innovative approach to study

A strong interest in surface pattern and an engagement with mark making and graphic imagery

This might, for example, be demonstrated by: related academic or work experience; the quality of the personal statement, a strong academic or other professional reference; or a combination of these factors.

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Year 1

Unit 1 - Introduction to Textile Design

This unit is an introduction to your course, the college and the university.

Unit 2 - Concept and process

This unit introduces you to textile design through projects and inductions into the textile workshops. You will gather visual information to explore concepts through experimental and observational drawing, photography and related research to inspire your work.

Drawing and design development

Specialist technical workshops

Technical processes through workshop practice and sampling

Presentation of fabric samples, including digital visualisation

Exploration of specialist practices in relation to research and design processes

Developing skills in visual analysis

Placing images and objects in cultural and historical context

Critically reflect on your process and document your practice via your blog

Work to demonstrate critical practice

Unit 3 - Textile contexts 1

Unit 4 - Textile contexts 2

You will work both digitally and within the studio to engage with current design ideas for interior or exterior space, interactive and experience design.

Projects will introduce you to the areas of interior and exterior space, interactive and experience design

Exhibition showcasing your work from the first year

Group and individual tutorials

Theory lectures

Digital workshops

Work to demonstrate critical practice

Year 2

Unit 5 - Materials design practice

In this unit you will focus on the design process. You will continue to develop your individual direction within your textiles.

To explore and examine the role of colour and colour theory in the production of textiles

Your research will inform the production of designs, samples and other outcomes that explore a theme via the development of a colour palette

Projects will strengthen your knowledge of professional context and the international audience for textile design

A series of lectures on role of colour in textiles

Production of a technical notebook

Exhibition of project work

Unit 6 - Collaborative and collective practices

This unit aims to introduce you to different ways in which collaborative working can focus and enhance your own creative strengths. This unit has 3 core purposes:

To engage with fellow students with different practices and interests in a collaborative project

To engage with external audiences, participants or institutions to consider new contexts for your work

To develop your creative attributes to enable you to take on future challenges in a variety of contexts

Unit 7 - Professional communication

In this unit you will work on a project that has a professional context. This maybe a staff research-led project, competition, trade fair showcase, exhibition or a live project.

Responsible design practices and textile led production times may feature in this unit. You will recognise your place in the global market and potential outlets for your work. These will help inform your future career aspirations.

Unit 8 - Responsible design practice

This unit encourages you to explore your practice as a responsible textile designer. Sustainable and ethical design has a broad impact. Textile design can inform change and reach outside of the textiles sector. It can cross disciplines into wellbeing, product design and technical performance innovations.

To look at the key concepts and debates relating to responsible design

An exploration of processes and skills associated with your practice

A negotiated research project that connects responsible design to your practice and research focus, including the presentation of your project

To look at global perspectives, cultural identity and contexts within textiles and fashion

To look at design concepts and theory

Studio work

Proposal for your critical practice project in year 3

Lectures and seminars to support your critical practice

Year 3

Unit 9 - Design synthesis

The unit is about the exploration of ideas, innovation and experimentation in preparation for your final major project.

To define your practice through a design project and a Critical Practice Project

To be encouraged to develop your design identity and how this connects to a wider external context

Live briefs and personal direction will inform your project

Unit 10 - Professional contexts

The unit is about defining you as a designer and how your work connects to a wider context.

To agree a negotiated design proposal for the final major project

To carry out in depth research to underpin and support your ideas

To take part in the college degree show exhibition

To produce a portfolio of work that includes all your final major project research, samples and design outcomes

To produce a context file that includes a design proposal, degree show plan, CV and final project statement

Optional Diploma between year 2 and 3

Between year 2 and 3 you can opt to undertake the Diploma in Professional Studies or the UAL Diploma in Creative Computing. Whilst these Diplomas are an optional aspect of the course, they are designed as an integrated and assessed part of your journey through the course.

The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are one or a combination of the following qualifications:

Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your portfolio of work, personal statement and reference.

APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

Related academic or work experience

The quality of the personal statement

A strong academic or other professional reference

A combination of these factors

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

English language requirements

All classes are taught in English. If English isn't your first language you must provide evidence at enrolment of the following:

BA Textile Design graduates have gone on to work in international fashion or interior design studios, trend-forecasting companies and magazines.

Others have set up their own businesses or gone on to postgraduate study on Chelsea's MA Textile Design, Central St Martins MA Fashion, as well as courses at other renowned institutions such as the Royal College of Art.

Some of the course's most successful graduates have joined design teams and are working within couture and high street production for fashion companies including Anthropologie, Burberry, Céline, Chloe, H&M, Liberty, Stella McCartney, Nike, Zac Posen, Jonathan Saunders and Alexander Wang.

Alumni

Yemi Awosile - Textile designer

Finchittida Finch - Jewellery label set up by twin sisters Lisa and Tida Finch. Worn by FKA Twigs and Lianne La Havas

Bridget Harvey - Designer, maker and activist

Henry Hussey - Artist

Helen Lawrence - Knitwear designer who has shown at Fashion East and London Fashion Week

Margo Selby - Woven textile design company making fabrics, rugs and accessories

Hsiao-Chi Tsai - Mixed media textile designer who creates installations and bespoke fashion accessories. She has been commissioned by Harvey Nicholls, Kew Gardens and the South Bank Centre

Find out how careers and employability helps our students and graduates start their careers.

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RESEARCH

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1. Why do you want to study this subject at university?
2. Why did you apply for this university?
3. What do you think university can offer you?
4. What can you bring to this university?
5. Why should we offer you a place?
6. What work experience have you done and what did you learn from it?
7. What career plan do you have ,if any?
8. Why the subject is important for you?
9. What are your strength and weaknesses?]
10.Whats the point of doing a gap year?

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1. London College of Fashion .
20 John Prince's
St, Marylander,
London W1G 0BJ
40m journey
2. University of West London.
 St Mary's Rd,
 London W5 5RF
22m journey
3. Central Saint Martins.
Granary Building,
 1 Granary Square,
 Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA
48m journey
4. Kingston University London.
Penrhyn Rd,
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2EE
1h 5m journey
5. Art University Bournemouth.
Wallisdown,
Poole
BH12 5HH
2h 56m journey

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Investigation into HE,HND ,FOUNDATION or  further Education.

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Investigation into HE,HND ,FOUNDATION or  further Education.

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PLANNING

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DRAFTS