Fashion, Textiles, Footwear and Accessories BA Welcome Pack

Welcome to Fashion, Textiles, Footwear and Accessories BA 2024.

This exciting and creative fashion degree in will enable you to explore a range of industry relevant topics, allowing you to specialise in Fashion, Footwear and Accessories or Textiles.

Our Fashion, Textiles, Footwear & Accessories degree provides rigorous depth of knowledge and industry-relevant skills at each level of the programme, enabling you to explore and advance both your theoretical understanding of fashion design and technical skills to support realisation. With access to specialist workshops, supported by expert academic and technical staff you will develop skills in both traditional and digital technologies making you prepared for the industry of the future.

The range of facilities will support you to learn the process of design from concept development, through to materiality and 3D visualisation within your chosen specialism.

Live projects, national and international competitions provide real-world industry experience for a range of careers for the fashion, textile and footwear industry, freelance work or preparation for further study at master’s level.

Your Programme Leader

​​Emmeline Child​

Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader Fashion, Textiles, Footwear and Accessories

​​​emmeline.child@northampton.ac.uk​​

Equipment

Drawing sessions will be scheduled as part of the teaching and workshops, and we have supplied a list of suggested materials to help guide you.

Suggested Materials and Equipment

• Pens, pencils, and paint brushes varying sizes.
• Pencils – A range of pencils, hard and soft versions, HB, good for defined lines however the softer pencils 2B, 3B upwards are good for getting a good fluid but energetic line.
• Pencil Sharpener – very important, to allow you to get the very best out of your pencil; a sharp pencil creates strong marks, creating depth and texture, essential for interesting mark making when illustrating for fashion.
• Black Fine liner – A real variety on the marketplace, experiment and find a brand of fine liner which is good developing your personal style. It is worth buying a range of pens with a variety of sizes of nibs.
• A3 Marker Pad – A more expensive version of the layout pad, the paper has a more refined finish, which allows marker pen to be added to developmental sketch work. Most brands will have a version; marker pads can vary in price.