Fashion Under Threat
Skillfast-UK, the Sector Skills Council for fashion and textiles, warns that London’s position as a world centre for fashion is under threat, due to a lack of skilled recruits entering the fashion industry.
The new campaign - “No skills, no fashion,” aims to encourage fashion colleges and universities to put more focus on pattern-cutting, garment construction and other technical fashion skills.
The Sector Skills Council hopes the campaign will highlight the fact that it takes more than just passion to make great fashion, and encourage policy-makers and educationalists to address the industry’s growing skills crisis.
In the UK, approximately 3,000 students graduate from fashion courses each year - yet top designers and clothing brands say they struggle to employ quality staff, because new recruits lack the technical skills and production knowledge to turn their creative ideas into achievable designs.
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