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Fashion London

Welcome to Fashion London, the new KS3 unit from the London Curriculum in collaboration with London College of Fashion. Fashion London helps your students explore the exciting world of fashion; the industry, the range of diverse roles and London's famous fashion landmarks.

It can adapted for a range of subjects but is especially aligned with the National Curriculum for Art & Design and Design & Technology.

You can download the free Teacher Resource by clicking the button below. If you haven't already registered for the London Curriculum, the button will prompt you to do so, and then allow you to download the unit. You can also find supplementary class slides and workbooks to support your teaching as well as a Fashion London Teacher CPD webinar below.

Fashion London Teacher Guide

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Supplementry slides and workbooks

To support your teaching, there are corresponding class slides and student workbooks for each of the nine lessons. You can download these by clicking on the lesson titles below and following the links.

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In this lesson you will:

  • learn the definition of a brand
  • identify fashion brands
  • come up with a brand name for your business
  • design a logo

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In this lesson you will:

  • learn the importance of identifying a target customer
  • learn how to identify a target consumer group and create a customer profile for your fashion business
  • understand trends

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In this lesson you will:

  • understand how a designer creates a concept
  • create a fashion concept board

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In this lesson you will:

  • learn techniques to develop your initial concept ideas into garment shapes
  • learn how to generate different versions of a garment type

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In this lesson you will:

  • create your t-shirt, based on the research done in lesson 2 and the design drawn up in lesson 4

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In this lesson you will:

  • consider how to build outfits from your t-shirt designs
  • create a mini range plan, with your t-shirt as the focus of the range
  • calculate the cost of your product and the predicted profit made from the range

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In this lesson you will:

  • learn what marketing is and begin to understand the different marketing channels
  • consider how to market your t-shirt and come up with a marketing plan

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In this lesson you will:

  • learn what's involved in a fashion shoot
  • conduct a mini fashion shoot

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In this lesson you will:

  • learn different visual display techniques
  • mock up a shop window display in a shoe box

Fashion London | Secondary Teacher CPD Webinar

During this webinar, the London College of Fashion will help you explore ways you can use the new resource in your teaching. The resource is aimed at KS3 but can easily be adapted across year groups, for after school clubs and for remote learning.

A summarised version of the slides used in this webinar is attached below.

Download Fashion London CPD Summarised Slides

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