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One year of Fashion with Textiles Design BA (Hons)

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Translate inspired ideas into real clothes. Turn abstract ideas into well-made garments. We all have our own unique creativity but you need to be able to find it, nurture it, inspire it and learn to express it. We can help you to become an independent creative thinker who can come up with your own innovative solutions on a daily basis. Are you creative and fashion-minded? Are you dreaming to become a fashion designer? Do you want to study a Fashion with Textiles Design BA (Hons) programme in our international fashion academy and start in September 2018? Then you really need to let us hear from you, otherwise this chance of a lifetime will pass you by. Sign up to our next Open Day or send us an email to info@amsterdamfashionacademy.com

 

Let’s take a look to what the students did this past year.

 

Draped Madness Collection

The 1st-year Fashion with Textiles Design BA students worked on the Draped Madness Collection under the guidance of lecturers Hanneke Ketting and Laura Malone.

 

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Top-view collection

During the first semester, our 2nd-year students were busy creating garments under the theme “top view” meaning they need to design and create garments as seen from above. This was part of the course Fashion Cutting & Construction with our lecturer Cristiano Carciani.

 

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Textiles Cutting & Construction

Experimentation with fabrics and re-use of materials. Here are few of the very creative works done by the 2nd-year students.

 

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Illustrations

Mood boards, sketchbooks, silhouettes, and more.

 

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Internship

All 2nd-year students are spending the semester doing interesting and exciting fashion internship experiences in the fashion industry. This is what two students told us about their experience:

 

“As a Bachelor’s degree student, I was given the opportunity to gain greater knowledge of the fashion industry and the design process with an internship at the headquarters of Essentiel Antwerp. Working side by side with the designers, stylists I experienced the various steps of the design process – choosing the right fabrics, creating a colour story, receiving first prototypes of a garment, fittings, quality checking and of course the thrill of a collection presentation show” – Evelina Anglickaite

 

“When I started my internship on the 1st of February 2018, the collection AW18 was already finished, but I had the big opportunity to work in the main photoshoot and in the preparation of the look books. After that we started to design the SS19 collection, for which I worked with showpiece patterns, creation of hoodies and short cords from scratch, as well as fabric dying, styling and mood boards” – Myrthe van der Leden

 

Stay tuned to see the photos of the final show with pieces by the Fashion with Textiles Design BA 3rd-year students.

Fashion brands and more: which three came out on top at the Academy?

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Being small and offering personal attention to our students is very important to us. We want to get to know each student personally and make them feel at home during their time at our international fashion academy in Amsterdam. With this in mind, we asked each first-year student to tell us their top three favourite brands, not just in the fashion world but generally, to help us find out more about their tastes and the business models of this generation.

 

As expected, answers varied greatly, but there was an undisputed winner: Gucci is our students’ top brand. They don’t just love Gucci’s products, but also the branding and marketing strategy; an interesting case study for both Fashion Business BA and Fashion with Textiles Design BA students. Gucci is an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods founded in Florence, Italy, in 1921. According to Forbes, as of May 2017, the brand value was around $12.7 billion.

 

Second place is shared by Zara and Apple, while third place sees a wide group of labels. The list of favourite brands changes when we separate the outcomes between the Fashion Business BA and the Fashion with Textiles Design BA programmes. While the top-three list of those who study fashion business is again composed of Gucci, Zara and Apple, the Fashion with Textiles Design students have a different taste: Dior, Balmain and Comme de Garçons are their favourite best brands.

 

Logically, fashion brands dominate the whole list, with some exceptions like Jeep, Tasty or Costa Coffee. It is also interesting to underline that Iris van Herpen was mentioned by many students. And speaking of this innovative Dutch fashion designer, did you see the photo we took at the Johannes Vermeer Prijs 2017?

Internship story: Linda’s fashion career starts at Asger Juel Larsen

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Internship is a key moment for our students’ fashion career during their second year in both Bachelor’s honours degree in Fashion Business and Bachelor’s honours degree in Fashion with Textiles Design. Linda is back from Copenhagen where she spent a rewarding 4 months working at Asger Juel Larsen renowned for unconventional tailoring with a heritage of hell-raising. She explained us why she decided to study fashion design in Amsterdam and what she learnt during her internship.

 

“Hello, my name is Linda Dittrich, I am in my 3rd year of the Bachelor’s honours degree in Fashion with Textiles Design. Originally, I am from Berlin, Germany and chose the Amsterdam Fashion Academy ahead of other fashion schools because of the personal attention it gives its students. During my intake interview I had the feeling I would get the support I was expecting from tutors and that the Academy would be able to give me the right base for my future career.

 

In my second year I went to Copenhagen for my internship. I was always interested in men’s wear and thrilled when I got accepted for one of my favourite designers Asger Juel Larsen. At AJL I worked closely with Asger and the design team on the upcoming collection. My responsibilities included researching for the collection, digital realisation of design sketches, making range plans and other overviews and creating technical specs ready for production. In addition to this, I worked closely with the print designer which I found very inspiring. Being away in another country and different environment helped me further develop as a person and was definitely the right decision. There are certain things a school can’t teach you and an internship is the best possible way to find out and understand what the industry expects from you as a young fashion designer.”

 

Do you want to know more about our students and steps towards a bright fashion career? Then read here!