Textile and fashion design

The academic bachelor study programme Textile and fashion design addresses the prospects of the Slovenian textile and clothing industry, which are are similar to the prospects for other European industries in the field.

The future is generally oriented towards products with higher added value, high-quality, top-level design, creativity, advanced products, intelligent textiles and similar. Additionally, these goals are closely connected to the adequate knowledge and qualifications of the people involved.

Although it has its origins in traditional handicraft skills, textile and fashion design is a branch that during the last century has developed into an independent and specific system of expression, interlinked with other artistic and designer practices and theories. The creative process of a textile designer generally starts with an idea, which needs to be first visualised through artistic means, while suitable technical processes are simultaneously considered and strategies developed.

The process of conceptualising and materialising an idea requires broad understanding and experience of artistic disciplines and sociology and knowledge of production technologies. The new concept of the study, based on experience from graduate and post-graduate studies of designing textiles and clothing in the past 35 years and cooperation with foreign higher education institutions, especially those included in the CUMULUS network, was organised around a new concept based on four parallel vertical studies.

These basic directions include parallel studies of designing textiles and clothing, artistic expression, technology (which supports the realisation of designer ideas) and support studies (consisting of the knowledge and skills of computer-assisted design, the history of textile and fashion design, marketing and management).