Student Courses

Introduction to Handbag Design - 5 day course - 16 August 2010

Show us a woman who doesn’t like handbags and we'll eat  our handbag!

This one week course provides the opportunity to learn about the design process from sketching out your ideas, to choosing materials, creating your own design and producing a range of bags. This will include illustrating your own ideas.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your ideas and skills under the tutoring of Ann Saunders, who has extensive experience in the fashion industry. As design co-ordinator for Laura Ashley she specialised in accessories and was also responsible for styling, arranging shoots, staging fashion shows and the mail order catalogue. Anne is also a visiting lecturer at the London College of Fashion and runs her own accessories company. more

Designing Shoes - 5 day course - 23 August 2010

This introductory course takes you through the fascinating history of footwear from the bejewelled pumps of Elizabeth I to the bejewelled pumps of Jimmy Choo.

We will look at how shoes are made and learn how to design and illustrate our own ideas. The course ends with a practical design exercise following the stages taken by professional designers to produce a range of shoes. This will include illustrations and 3D mock-ups. Lead by Chris Hill who has been designing shoes for over twenty years, some of her students are now household names – Jimmy Choo, Emma Hope and Patrick Cox more