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Looking ahead to September!

Last week saw the end of our pattern cutting programme. Students Rosie and Saiqa have flown through the course and achieved some amazing results, and are now getting ready to join our garment construction too, to learn some really expert level skills in making clothes. Its been a pleasure having you ladies!

Now were looking ahead to our September dates which are starting to book up. Garment Construction is on Tuesday daytimes or evenings, or saturday mornings, and Pattern Cutting is running on Wednesday daytimes or evenings, or saturday afternoons, so theres a course for everyone!

For more info on our pattern cutting programme or any other of our courses, please see our site here, or give us a call on 02073753235

OPPORTUNITIES: Great resource for pattern cutting jobs

Pattern Cutting is one of the great unsung roles in fashion. 

 

We get many a university student, mid-degree, come to our drop in sessions or pattern cutting classes looking to learn this essential skill to boost their portfolio and their skills. It’s a trade in its own right, and it’s a real shame that many fashion design degree courses don’t seem to offer an industry level of tuition in this subject; a good pattern cutter will never be without work, in the sense that it is a trade, one we have in recent years seemingly forgotten.

Many of the students we have through our Pattern Cutting classes at Fashion Antidote go onto jobs within the industry, behind the scenes with designers and fashion houses, vital cogs in the fashion machine.

A great resource for such jobs is the University of the Arts Creative Opportunities section of their website. Although it says the places are for university of the arts graduates only, as that’s where the resource is from, all jobs are of course open to all applicants, and the list is often updates with Pattern Cutting vacancies. Although highly competitive, definitely opportunities to be grabbed!

http://creativeopportunities.arts.ac.uk/

Fashion Design for the Catwalk - with Alternative Fashion Week