This course builds upon the skills learned in Fashion and Textiles Materials. Your understanding of how conventional fashion design materials can be used will be expanded as you begin to transform and manipulate pre-existing material for altered use within the context of fashion design; challenging preconceived notions of end use.

Additive and subtractive methods of material modification will be explored in a series of workshops and independent projects to discover how pre-existing materials can be transformed or adapted for bodies, experiences or environments. You will develop modification methodologies and processes in line with sustainable practice and undertake a critical analysis of how these transformations effect wearer relationships, including end of garment lifecycle.