A-Level Design and Technology: Fashion and Textiles promotes and develops knowledge and understanding of how historical, social and technological factors influence design, manufacture, fashion and trends.

You will be encouraged and given opportunities to explore, challenge and develop your practical skills following the two core aspects of:
• Technical principles;
• Designing and making principles.

You will be given opportunities to work with a range of equipment, utilising a wide variety of different products, construction and decorative techniques and materials in order to create high quality products. You will learn how to make informed design decisions to support high-level prototyping. Testing and evaluation will help ensure that you create a product that meets your client’s needs.

The modern textile industry offers a broad range of career opportunities from raw material processing to the design and creation of soft furnishings and interior design and fashion. Fashion and Textiles is used across a broad spectrum of industries and you could become part of any one of these diverse sectors with this qualification as a platform.