Textile and Fashion Design Research Group

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The Fashion and Textile Design research group conducts wide ranging interdisciplinary research that examines many facets of the design led textile and fashion industries. These range from: fashion and textile design, technical design, pattern cutting, garment production, design production management, accessories, illustration, fashion and textile merchandising, marketing, journalism, photography, styling, image consultation, trend analysis, historical dress and textiles, fashion and textile archives.

The group's main aim is to promote and provide expert knowledge through research enquiry into all design areas of fashion and textiles with particular specialisms in garment technology, sustainability, fashion history, culture and ethics.

The group's main research aims are:

• To deliver a high-quality research environment for students and researchers.
• To create innovative impact activities and research outcomes.
• Offer services to the fashion industry such as: textile testing facilities, digital printing technologies, laser cutting, digital fashion, photography suite, whole garment dyeing, summer schools and CPD courses in various areas of fashion design, manufacture and textiles.
• To encourage collaboration, development of resources and topics into modules and study materials.
• To build upon current and future collaborative networks to develop strategic partnerships with local, regional, national and international non-academics such as businesses, NGOs, archives and museums and other universities.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of Leeds
Leeds