Abstract

This article proposes that a new generation of designers is needed within the UK fashion industry with a combined skill-set of designer-led innovation, a critical approach to new technology and an understanding of new engineering, digital and scientific paradigms. The training of a new type of fashion student/researcher/designer is focused necessarily towards one who is able to work in a transdicsiplinary structure, and who also has a deep academic understanding of the field, able to question and hold to account emerging new industrial models. The machinery and techniques commonly used, practiced and taught within the UK fashion industry and academia have not significantly changed in the past 100 years. However, recent manufacturing innovation and other technological advances including Additive Manufacture, nanotechnology, bio-engineering, electronics enhanced fabrics and digital design processes are enabling the fashion industry to reinvent itself at an international level. Led by a newly developing confidence in practice-based and practice-led research methods for fashion, this collection of technologies and capabilities could fundamentally change the future of the UK fashion design industry, therefore radical change is needed in the training of fashion designers in UK design schools.

摘要

本文提出，英国时装业需要新一代设计师，他们拥有以设计师为主导的创新技能组合、对新技术的批判性方法以及对新工程、数字和科学范式的理解。新型时尚学生/研究人员/设计师的培训必须侧重于能够在跨学科结构中工作，并且对该领域具有深刻学术理解，能够质疑和掌握新兴产业的人楷模。在过去的 100 年里，英国时装界和学术界普遍使用、实践和教授的机械和技术并没有发生显着变化。然而，最近的制造创新和其他技术进步，包括增材制造、纳米技术、生物工程、电子增强织物和数字设计流程使时装业能够在国际层面上进行自我改造。在对以实践为基础和以实践为主导的时尚研究方法的新信心的引领下，这些技术和能力的集合可以从根本上改变英国时装设计行业的未来，因此英国时装设计师的培训需要彻底改变设计学校。