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Fashion Accessory Design BA (Hons) The Fashion Accessory Design course will provide you with the mindsets and skillsets to create innovative accessories, textiles, smart materials and wearable technology. On this future-facing course, you will learn a variety of skills and design for the fast growing fashion accessories, textile and material innovation market. An accredited work placement in level 5 of the course allows students to apply their skills within an industry context and to make contacts that will greatly enhance their employability. Work placements include Ralph & Russo, Iris van Herpen, Aitor Throup, Roksanda, Jane Bowler and many more. Recent graduates were employed as designers by prestigious brands such as Dune and Kurt Geiger as well as international e-tailer ASOS and a range of young and independent brands. Institution: RAVEN R06   Course: 4A69 Term starts: September 2019   Entry requirements: 89 How to apply: 90 Careers Fashion accessory designers work in areas such as bag design, eyewear, jewellery design, luggage design, shoe design, material innovation and fashion-led product design. The increased textile and material innovation focus in line with industry demand brings a variety of opportunities as well as a broad range of career options to students on this course. Duration: 3 years full-time   The Course The focus of this course is to develop your ideas and concepts in relation to accessories and fashion experimentation through 3D printing, textile innovation and material manipulation, digital print design, laser cutting, digital embroidery, and 3D prototyping. These processes and techniques will facilitate the design and production of innovative, market ready accessories informed by new trends, technologies and learning about new consumer profiles in a fast and fluid market. For more information ravensbourne.ac.uk/fad Above Ellie Brown Top left Eni Fakoya Far left Rebecca Lavelle-Bowden 47