Profile

Graduating from the London College of Fashion as an award winning fashion designer with a first class honours degree, I have since worked on many diverse and exciting projects. I have produced my own collections, and have worked as a freelance stylist for Fashion Editorial and Advertising as well as in costume for film, television and performance for over 15 years. My experience in the Fashion Industry and in Fashion Education means that I can offer a wealth of knowledge and practical know-how.

It is important to me to be part of a team developing unique study programmes designed closely with the contemporary Fashion Industry in order to hone the student’s talents and transform them into innovative and confident designers, and to provide them with the opportunity to begin their creative careers with the best start possible.

All students should be excited and inspired by their potential during their time in education, and to take advantage of all the fantastic facilities we should make available to them, including collaborative work with other departments and schools as well as nurturing any existing directives of trans disciplinarily conceived projects.

I support traditional methods of construction and design as well as encouraging the development of advanced cutting edge technologies for Fashion, including the increasingly essential presence of all creative outputs within the digital landscape. I work continuously to embed professional knowledge into the curriculum and know how important it is that the students benefit from many prestigious visiting speakers from industry who should be there to offer them invaluable advice and support.

I am a firm believer that diversity and inclusivity play an integral role in the shaping of educational processes and should be part of developing innovative teaching and learning strategies that celebrate difference along with a strong foundation in professional practice and current research, in the field of fashion and in the wider contexts of art and culture.

Career Details

2013 - 2017 ▸ Director of Programmes | Middlesex University

2009 - 2013 ▸ Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader | Middlesex University

2000 - 2009 ▸ Lecturer | University of the Arts, The London College of Fashion

2006 - 2009 ▸ Lecturer | University for the Creative Arts, BA Fashion Imaging and Promotion

2006 - 2009 ▸ Lecturer | Tower Hamlets Summer University, The Brady Art Centre

1989 - 2005 ▸ Administrative Officer | The Ministry of Defence Research Library, London

Most recent post

Director of Fashion Programmes

BA(Hons) Fashion Design | Fashion Communication & Styling | Fashion Textiles

MA Fashion | Fashion Foundation | BA Fashion with FY

School of Art and Design, Middlesex University

In my most recent position as Director of Fashion at University, I played an integral role in the shaping of the educational processes and was part of introducing innovative teaching and learning strategies that have a strong foundation in professional practice as well as current research, in the field of fashion and in the wider contexts of art and culture. I managed 490 students on the three Undergraduate programmes, undertaking programmes of study on 10 modules at 4 Levels, and an additional 6 Students at Post Graduate Level.

I coordinated a staff team of 22 academic colleagues (permanent and Visiting Lecturers), 9 technical staff and technical manager, an Assessment Officer and a Student Achievement Officer (both shared across Art and Design) and 1 Graduate Teaching Assistant. Responsible for a department budget of around 125k GBP and the organisation of promotional events on a global scale as well as overseeing industry collaborations and sponsorships.

Education

▸ Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching for Education. 2003

▸ Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching Art & Design. 2002

▸ First Class BA (Hons) Design with Technology for the Fashion Industry

The London College of Fashion. 1996 - 1999

Professional Practice | Research activity

▸ Since 2007 |Costume and Styling, collaborative work with Austrian artist Ursula Mayer

▸ 2001-2007 |Freelance Stylist and Wardrobe, Fashion Editorial, Film and Television

▸ Year 2001 |Designer, The British Scout Uniform for over 800,000 nationally and internationally

▸ 1999-2001 |Designer, Fawn (own label) shows off-schedule London Fashion Week

▸ A/W 1999 |Designer, collection modelled by artists Gillian Wearing | Angela Bulloch | Fiona Ray

▸ A/W 2000 |Designer, collection shown at The Agency for Contemporary Art gallery Shoreditch

▸ S/S 2000 |Designer, collection shown at the Hilton Hotel's Zeta Bar, Park Lane

▸ Year 2000 |Designer, the staff uniforms for the Hilton Hotel's Zeta Bar, Park Lane

▸ Year 1999 |Winner of the Royal Society of Arts Design Award for Cutting Edge Design,

▸ 1998-1999 |Internship Alexander McQueen London

My collections have appeared in the following publications:

▸The Times Magazine ▸The Daily Telegraph ▸The Evening Standard ▸The Sunday Times ▸The Guardian Newspaper ▸The International Herald Tribune ▸I.D Magazine ▸Raygun Magazine ▸Insight Magazine ▸Drapers Record ▸Blueprint Magazine ▸Dutch Magazine ▸Pure Magazine ▸Empire Magazine ▸InStyle

Professional Skills

I have extensive Professional Practice and Teaching experience in the following areas:

▸ Teaching International Students

▸ Teaching Art & Design

▸ Costume Design & Styling for Film, Television and Performance

▸ Wardrobe for Film, Television and Performance

▸ Fashion Design and Development

▸ Garment Construction

▸ Illustration

▸ Fashion Imaging

Professional Associations.

▸ The Worshipful Company of Dyers

▸ Woolmark International

▸ Liberty’s of London

▸ The British Fashion Council Colleges Council

Public output from Collaborative Professional Practice | Research activity

▸ 2014 |Gonda, Derek Jarman Prize

▸ 2014 |Mirror City, Hayward Gallery, London

▸ 2013 |21er Haus, Museum Belvedere, Vienna

▸ 2013 |Gonda, Krobath Gallery, Berlin

▸ 2013 |ICA, Gonda, Performance, London

▸ 2012 |Gonda, ISBN 978 3 943365 32 0 Sternberg Press, Berlin 2012

▸ 2011 |Gonda, Performa 11, Selected Group Exhibition, New York

▸ 2010 |Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Monitor, Rome

▸ 2009 |Frame, with Monitor Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London

▸ 2009 |Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

▸ 2008 |Nought to Sixty, ICA, London

▸ 2007 |The Crystals of Time, Lentos Museum Linz

Texts (reviews)

▸ Conversation: Ursula Mayer and Maud Jacquin, October 2015

On her Derek Jarman award winning trilogy

https://lux.org.uk/conversation-ursula-mayer-maud-jacquin-october-2015

Media experience

▸ Documentary BBC ‘Making It’ about my work as an award winning Fashion Designer

▸ Representative of British Fashion for the British Council in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan

References

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