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Fashion design and technology: Menswear

Course Summary School: Manchester Fashion Institute

Location: United Kingdom, Manchester

Education: Diploma

This course focuses on creative menswear fashion design with a technical understanding, exploring fashion cultures and business concepts to encourage innovations in contemporary fashion design, emerging technologies, construction techniques and fabrication.
Features and Benefits
Creative and Technology-based course providing you with both technical know-how and creative flair.
Excellent placement opportunities in the UK and abroad, our dedicated placement team help source placements at companies such as Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, Margaret Howell and Adidas.
Opportunity to enhance your learning by taking study trips. Previous trips have been to trade fairs in Paris, Amsterdam to visit denim brands and production facilities and India to explore sustainable craftsmanship.
You’ll benefit from the multi-million pound, newly refurbished facilities, with access to industry standard equipment including more than 150 specialised sewing and joining machines and equipment, 3D bodyscanner, sew-free bonding equipment, automated and laser cutting equipment, 3D printing and the latest digital pattern-cutting software.
Producing award winning students the course is closely linked to the international fashion industry, working on live projects with brands such as ASOS, Stradivarius, Whistles and Old Navy.
Recent Awards
British Fashion Council Stradivarius Fashion Design Competition Second Prize Winner  – Alex Ritchie
International Youth Design Contest 2016 Silver Prize Winner – Lauren Bennett
Old Navy Competition 2017 Winner – Anna Bishop 
Whistles Design Competition 2017 Winner – Jack Stokoe
ASOS Menswear Design Competition 2016 Winner – Lauren Evans
Fielding and Nicholson Tailoring Competition Third Prize Winner – Jennifer Cunningham
National Football Museum Pele Design Competition Winners – James Miller / Tom Cree 
Debenhams Menswear Award Winner 2014 – Jenny K Tran
Coach Design Competition 2016 Runner up – Lauren Bennett
Duration: 3 years full-time, 4 years sandwich