Born of a collaborative effort between many ventures including Fashion Enter, Fashion Capital, and asos.com, this site is the digital arm of one of the best fashion schools in London. Created in order to expand the training facilities for beginners in the fashion industry, the site offers accredited courses and apprenticeships ranging from levels 1 to 5. These opportunities help companies and individuals alike understand the fundamental skills required to excel in the industry and obtain certification for the same.

Courses are provided in pattern cutting, stitching skills, production skills, taster courses, and bespoke tailoring. For each level of a course that a student completes, the academy provides them with the option of taking up an apprenticeship in order to gain practical experience at intermediate levels as well. This serves to inculcate industry knowledge with as much importance as theory, helping to prevent a classroom to workplace gap. Some of the apprenticeships available include as a sewing machinist, pattern cutter, product technologist, bespoke tailor, apparel manufacturing technologist and a sewn product manufacturer. The apprenticeship as a sewing machinist is, for example, available after completion of respective level 2 courses, while the apprenticeship as a bespoke tailor is available after level 5 course completion. Besides courses, the academy also provides diploma courses in fashion and textiles, covering a range of production skills. Diplomas are available in bespoke tailoring and pattern making, apparel, footwear or leather production, technical textiles, product sourcing and development and for a fashion studio assistant.

But the academy is not restricted to only students of fashion, just stepping out into the industry. The site also focuses on industry professionals looking to revamp their skills with professional training. The training for such industry workers is CPPD accredited and is conducted in a live factory environment in order to capitalize on the previous experience of these batches of participants. Currently, these industrial training programs are on bespoke tailoring and are being run successfully in reputed companies such as Asos, the Acardia Group, Marks & Spencer and New Look. The fact that the academy is qualified to offer CPPD training is a testament to the quality of training that has been offered over the years. the site has been acknowledged by ABC Awards and certified under the ABC Awards Quality License Scheme. Overall, the academy's vision is to provide quality training in order to facilitate the fashion industry. For more info visit https://fcfta.com/

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