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Portfolio Preparation For Foundation Fashion And Textiles Short Course

Portfolio Preparation For Foundation Fashion And Textiles Short Course | On campus
Build a winning fashion portfolio. Prepare for foundation courses with a portfolio that highlights your design skills and creativity.

Next start months
March 2026
August 2026
Tutor(s)
Dominic Akhavan-Moossavi
Berni Yates
Price
From £760.00

Course description

Course overview

This course offers an opportunity to sample Foundation level standards with the guidance from an expert tutor. You will build a strong portfolio whilst following the areas that interest you the most.

Who this course is for

This course is suitable for anyone interested in preparing their portfolio for foundation fashion and textiles, regardless of prior experience. Beginners and those with some previous knowledge are welcome.

Key information

Topics covered

  • Carry out a variety of projects related to fashion design, research, illustration
  • Basic draping and textile design
  • Produce a body of work for your portfolio during class time
  • Look at fashion and textiles with a broad and experimental approach
  • Improve your technical skills along with developing your creativity with the help of your tutor

Learning outcomes

  • Develop a fashion or textiles portfolio
  • Gain personal advice from a tutor who understands the application process
  • Digital badge and certificate of attendance

Materials

  • A3 drawing paper (loose cartridge paper, minimum thickness 140g)
  • Drawing equipment (2B pencil, sharpener, black marker pen (thick), black felt-tip pens, coloured inks, colour pencils/pastels)
  • Masking tape
  • Pritt-stick
  • Scissors (for fabric and paper)
  • Scalpel Camera

Tutor

Dominic Akhavan-Moossavi

Dominic-Afsheen Akhavan-Moossavi is a graduate from the BA Fashion course at Central Saint Martins. He is a menswear designer, with a deep interest in print, colour and performance. As well as his own practice he is involved in education and helping anyone achieve their potential and ideas.

Berni Yates

Berni Yates has over 30 years experience in the Fashion and Textiles sector – she has worked for Central Saint Martins for the past 20 years – her specialist area is Fashion Knitwear.

Berni has many years of experience supporting young people with access and progression onto Art Foundation and Fashion, Textiles and Jewellery Degree courses at CSM and other HEIs.

She has been instrumental in setting up community Arts projects PAN UK, to support Art Education.

Berni is currently lead on Knowledge Exchange for the Fashion programmes at CSM, working across the sector talking to industry experts and weaving new knowledge into the curriculum.

She has a wealth of Insights into the Fashion and Textiles industry and continues to consult and design her own label of bespoke knit garments. She is also joint course director for Textiles Portfolio short course at CSM.

Berni has a broad knowledge of learning and teaching at CSM and UAL more broadly, so is well placed to help with portfolio building.

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