Innovation in the Textile Industry: Shima Seiki

Learning by doing does not mean replacing theory with projects. In Design and Technology, it means turning an idea into something that can be observed and tested, gathering information about its shortcomings, revising decisions and explaining why changes have been made. Learning takes place within this cycle of action, evidence, feedback and iteration, not solely in the final outcome.

If you’re interested in both design and technology, you don’t need to choose between creativity and technique, but rather to identify the type of problem you want to tackle. Disciplines such as Fashion, Interior Design, Product Design and UX, Visual Communication, Animation, Video Games, and Data Science and AI apply varying degrees of both tools depending on whether they focus on the body, space, use, meaning, time or systems.

There is a profile that appears frequently among those who are choosing a degree: they are interested in fashion with an intensity that goes beyond a taste for dressing well. He follows campaigns with the same attention that he pays to collections. He wonders why some brands generate desire and others go unnoticed. Events, launches and visual communication are as relevant to him as the garment itself. And he has a question that is difficult to formulate: can I enter the fashion industry professionally without focusing on designing clothes?

Ana Llorente, researcher and lecturer in the Fashion Department at UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, has just published the book Leyendas de la Moda: Thierry Mugler, in which she reviews the firm's trajectory, its evolution and its impact and that of the designer himself on the fashion sector.

Few have held the crown in fashion, and he did so not only by adapting his values to new commitments to the industry's agenda, but, as a representative of "Made in Italy", through the aesthetics of sobriety, asceticism, purity of line, harmony of form and idealised naturalism.

If you've seen the acclaimed Balenciaga series and you're thinking of going into fashion, you may have been envious when you saw Paris in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the maisons and the great designers, when prêt-à-porter was just beginning to 'show its face'. If you're thinking about training to work in the sector, it's very likely that you've thought about whether there's a future in fashion design. Is it worth investing time and effort to enter a world that seems to be full of brands and options? Read on!

Have you ever wondered what you study in fashion design? We tell you what the main subjects are, the content you see in our degree and what you will learn if you study at UDIT.