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This experience explores the different aspects of the fashion design process. As you progress through it, you’ll learn what fashion design entails, the steps involved in transitioning from concept to the creation of the final garment. We’ll explore how to identify your target market, understand your customer, forecast trends, and discover where to find your ideas. We'll also cover how to develop them, record them, and effectively communicate them to others. We also conduct a thorough examination of fabric research. You’ll learn about the different types of fabric, where they come from, what they’re good for, and when you’d use them. You’ll also find out more about sustainable fabrics and practices.
Dr Charlotte GoldthorpeUniversity of HuddersfieldFashion, Textiles, Jewellery
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1. Introduction to fashion design
2. Fashion design research: from concept to creation
3. Fabrics for fashion: exploring cloth characteristics
4. Research activity
About the university
University of Huddersfield
The University of Huddersfield is a place where ambition is encouraged and every student is supported to go further. You will learn from staff who are among the most highly qualified in the country and committed to helping you grow. You will have the chance to challenge yourself through placements, projects, networks, societies, and real industry experience. Our campus is modern, welcoming, and designed to help you feel at home while discovering what you can achieve. You will be backed on the challenging days and celebrated on the good ones. This is a university that helps you seize opportunities and reach new heights.
Meet the academic
Dr Charlotte Goldthorpe
Dr Charlotte Goldthorpe is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. From 2003-2006, Goldthorpe worked as a freelance art director/assistant in film and television. She commercially designed and produced bags and accessories. In 2007, she qualified as a Design and Technology teacher from Goldsmiths University and taught in East London for several years before being awarded an MA in Fashion Artefact at the London College of Fashion. In 2015, Goldthorpe exhibited ‘Absence’ at the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence as part of Polimoda and IFFTI’s Momenting the Memento conference and installation series. Absence was a collection of objects linked to individuals in the artist’s life, playing with the absence and presence of owner and object. It combined heritage and modern production techniques to compel the objects to appear to portray 'ghosts' of their former selves. She completed her PhD in 2022 at the University of Huddersfield, which explored storytelling and the transmission of memories through making. Through this, she developed a new methodology, ‘narrative-led making’ that uses personal stories to inform practice. Her current research looks at working with the ageing community, in terms of craft, wellbeing, and heritage.
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