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Teaching method

At Fashion & Textile you will get to work in a well-equipped workshop with dress-forms, sewing machines, sergers, and all the other gear you need to work creatively with fashion and textile. You will get your own permanent workspace where you can get absorbed in your projects, keep track of your work process, and collect materials for inspiration. 
Most projects begin with thorough research, analysis, and exploration of form. You will learn to understand and work with the various stages and methods of the design process and refine your ability to develop and transform loose ideas into enthralling, bold, and innovative products through sketches and experiments. 
 Learning to design and develop fashion and textile demands mastering of techniques and tools. That’s why you will receive thorough introduction on how to use the various machines. You will work with many different approaches to fashion and textile – such as cutting, draping, silkscreen, knitting, form fixation, and other methods of manipulating textile surfaces.Fortunately fashion & textile design cannot be carried out in cotton, silk, and cashmere solely. All materials can be used and you will get to work with most of them. We’ll dive into the stream of issues you will be faced with in your future work as a designer, and you will learn how to mediate messages through fashionand textile. Towards the end you will obtain knowledge of how to make use of styling and staging photos to best present your design processes in a portfoliofolder. 
We will teach you how to draw by hand. Drawing is an important tool – working with expressive illustrations as well as technical construction drawings. 
We end all projects with a group review, where you have the opportunity to share your thoughts and the choices you have made during your work process with the rest of the class.