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Short course

Streetwear Fashion for 16 to 18 Year Olds Short Course

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Design your own streetwear! Explore trends and create unique fashion styles.
Next start months
July 2025
July 2025
August 2025
Tutor(s)
Jane Francis
Berni Yates
Maria Cuji Cumbajin
Price
From £610.00

Course description

Course overview

Street fashion and streetwear have become powerful forces in global style, rooted in subculture, rebellion, youth, and a DIY attitude. This course explores London's vibrant street fashion scene as a source of inspiration, with visits to museums, street markets, and fashion hotspots.

You'll be introduced to key techniques used in fashion design, including research, concept building, illustration, 2D to 3D translation, hand-making, customisation, upcycling, textiles, image making, and styling. Through daily tasks, you'll build a strong body of work to support your portfolio and prepare for further study.

Co-taught by visiting designers, industry professionals, and Central Saint Martins graduates, the course also offers tailored advice on portfolio development, application processes, and future study options at both Further and Higher Education levels.

Who this course is for

  • Students aged 16 to 18 with a passion for streetwear fashion, including beginners
  • Students considering pursuing further study options at FE and HE level
  • Students who would like to try something new, fun and meet other young creatives

Key information

Topics covered

  • From design process to three-dimensional customisation, deconstruction and reinvention, using streetwear classics such as: tee shirts, and upcycled materials
  • Research methodologies and sketchbook techniques for fashion
  • Introduction to the library at Central Saint Martins, including physical and digital learning resources
  • Portfolio preparation advice for further study at Foundation and degree level
  • Group and peer critiques
  • Styling and presentation

The course does not include patternmaking or machine sewing. However, students will be encouraged to experiment with hand-sewing, studding and simple embellishment techniques.

Learning outcomes

  • Strengthen your fashion design portfolio for further study
  • Develop fundamental skills and techniques for fashion design and methodologies used within industry and Further Education
  • Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
  • Develop an open-minded approach to art and design
  • Experience art school teaching

For practical information about our kids and teens courses, take a look at our kids and teens information hub. This includes details of our policies on safeguarding, food allergies, learning requirements and online study.

Materials

If possible, please bring a camera or camera phone to record the process of making the work, and the outcomes.

Everything else needed to complete the course is provided, but please feel free to bring any current sketchbooks or materials you enjoy using.

Tutor

Jane Francis

Jane Francis is a BA and Masters graduate of Fine Art. She has over thirty years of experience in the fashion industry. She founded her own label for womenswear and accessories in the 1980’s, retailing through Liberty, Hyper-Hyper, Harrods, Saks and Patricia Field. She went on to work professionally for Vivienne Westwood for over a decade, focusing on the creation, production and catwalk presentations of her collections specialising in fashion accessories, jewellery and footwear. She has held posts within CSM and UAL as a Senior Lecturer Foundation Studies (Fashion), Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery and Fashion Accessories courses and worked as a freelance consultant, stylist and photographer to many international fashion brands and designers, including Ghost, Tank Magazine and TopShop Now she combines educating internationally in Fashion at Parsons NYC, with her research practice into fashion image making, curation and fashion cultures.

Jane draws on the experiences gained from working with fine art and the fashion industries, to inform her educational ethos: To encourage forward thinking, innovative and creative approaches to design, through experimental, academic and practical inquiry.

Berni Yates

Berni Yates has over 30 years experience in the Fashion and Textiles sector – she has worked for Central Saint Martins for the past 20 years – her specialist area is Fashion Knitwear.

Berni has many years of experience supporting young people with access and progression onto Art Foundation and Fashion, Textiles and Jewellery Degree courses at CSM and other HEIs.

She has been instrumental in setting up community Arts projects PAN UK, to support Art Education.

Berni is currently lead on Knowledge Exchange for the Fashion programmes at CSM, working across the sector talking to industry experts and weaving new knowledge into the curriculum.

She has a wealth of Insights into the Fashion and Textiles industry and continues to consult and design her own label of bespoke knit garments. She is also joint course director for Textiles Portfolio short course at CSM.

Berni has a broad knowledge of learning and teaching at CSM and UAL more broadly, so is well placed to help with portfolio building.

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