This Level 1 NCFE Award is for beginners, or those with little experience. It will introduce you to the technical and creative skills used in the Fashion Design industry. It will teach you skills necessary to progress onto our UAL Level 2 course in Fashion starting in September.

The Level 1 UAL accredited Diploma is for those who want to understand the fundamentals of the creative process in fashion and textile design. The course will help nurture your creative talents by teaching you how to experiment, take risks and produce new fashion or textile-based ideas.The course allows you to explore your own creative strengths, what inspires you, and how to effectively communicate your ideas. You will use your everyday environments, and the wealth of places of interest, such as museums and galleries, both virtual and real, to collect and research ideas, which will inform your design work.

The Level 2 UAL accredited Diploma is for those who want to build on their skills and knowledge to further develop and explore their creativity in the area of creative fashion design. You will refine and continue to enhance your skills in a way that will enable you to respond to today’s challenges in the creative fashion and textiles sector. You will develop practical skills related to garment construction and realisation and understand the variety of media in which to present and communicate your work. Working creatively as a team you will engage in final show curation and production.

Visits to museums, galleries and exhibitions will strengthen your research skills and inform your practice.

This Level 3 UAL accredited Diploma course encourages you to be experimental and think in different ways about fashion, not just from a design perspective, but also how the changing world around us impacts how we make and respond to fashion. Through developing your skills of reflection and evaluation the course will broaden your confidence in your creative ability, encourage you to go out of your comfort zone and have the courage of your convictions in your design, visual communication and construction choices. Alongside these practical skills, you will also develop your responsibility as a designer of fashion product and gain an awareness of the role you play as a creative practitioner in society. Understanding the roles and career opportunities in the fashion industry is also a focus of the course.