There are ten (10) staff working within the Fashion Section. All teachers have qualifications in Teaching and Learning and are master couturier and technical experts in their field.
Class sizes are small with no more than 15 students per group. Each student works with a member of staff to develop their own training plan so that they can achieve their career and individual goals. Strong links with Industry and local small businesses give us an insight into current trends in the Fashion Industry and allows us to place students into suitable positions for industry experience
Great photos, and excellent overview explanation. Do you keep theory and practice quite separate as these photos suggest, or is there some intermingling of the two?
ReplyDeleteAm I right that this means that your students work with producing clothes? What kind of jobs do they get afterwords?
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In Sweden you can take programs on different levels in the textile business, starting with the skills in sewing. On a high level ( academic) I know that it is very hard to get in and the content is very demanding to learn. It is like an architect , you must have a good sense of skill in creativity and artistary as well as skills in CAD programming.
Sweden ( and Denmark) have a rather big textile industry although we do almost not produce any clothes. In Europe the Swedish brand Hennes and Maurits - shops are among the leading ones in selling clothes.
It sounds like the 2nd (Diploma) and 3rd year (Advanced Diploma ) students are like your high level
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The theory rooms are mainly used for drawing and research. We have 2 large workrooms which are for manual pattern-making, cutting, garment construction. We have one computer lab, which is also for researching, manual drawing and computerised designing and pattern-making.
ReplyDeleteIn Australia we have 'lots' of designers and most of these produce in Asian countries due to mass production and lower cost of production. Our industry demands entry level employees to have at least 2 years of tertiary study (this would be Diploma or 3 years would be an Advanced Diploma) The Diploma is a 2 year full-time course ( and has an exit point, after one year. This being a Certificate 4 ) We also offer 2 beginners courses - A taste of fashion design and clothing production - some of these student continue studying. All the students work very hard and the courses are very demanding.
A lot of our students will work for fashion designs in roles such as Pattern-makers and graders (computerised and manual) local and/or off shore Production Assistants/Managers and production costing, Product Development, Designers/Design Assistants and also roles in sales and business. Some will start their own business including draping/couture and bridal.
I'm interested in your sewing machines, how many do you have and what kind of machines. What are your favourite brand? I like JUKI machines. Do you recognise this brand?
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