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BA Bespoke Tailoring
About this course
Bespoke tailoring is one of the most exacting and historically prestigious crafts in fashion, demanding the ability to construct garments to fit an individual body with precision and skill. The bespoke tradition, centred historically on London's Savile Row and the broader British tailoring trade, involves taking a client's measurements, constructing a personal pattern, hand-cutting the cloth, and building a garment through successive fittings until it fits perfectly. In an era of mass production, bespoke tailoring represents the craft tradition at its highest level of refinement, and the ability to make garments in this way is a genuinely rare skill. At the London College of Fashion, part of the University of the Arts London, you will study bespoke tailoring over three years full-time in one of the world's leading fashion institutions. The programme develops your technical making skills to a professional level, building your understanding of pattern cutting, cloth construction, fitting, and the traditional techniques that distinguish bespoke garments from manufactured ones. You will engage with the history and contemporary practice of the tailoring trade, developing your craft in the context of an international fashion education that also provides the broader creative and industry knowledge to support a professional career. The typical entry tariff is 136 UCAS points. Graduates pursue careers as bespoke tailors in established tailoring houses and independent practice, as technical pattern cutters, as made-to-measure specialists in luxury fashion brands, and as technical educators in fashion and apparel. The exceptional level of craft skill the programme develops also opens paths into costume design for film and theatre, and into product development and quality roles in higher-end manufacturing. Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in fashion design, fashion history, or related disciplines.
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