LCF's strength, unique college charm and strong professional quality make LCF become the Dream School that many students yearn for, especially for women's dress design! Today's enrollment season feature, we have invited James Pegg, the former dean of Lunyi LCF Women's Wear Design Department, who has served for 11 years, once served as the dean of Women's Wear Design Department, and has many years of experience in curriculum research and development, aesthetic education, etc., to bring you the application guide of Lunyi LCF. Which application requirements are most easily ignored but very important? What application conditions will the admissions officer pay special attention to?

Undergraduate study in Glasgow School of Art Textile Design printing direction of fabric design; Graduate student studied Textile Design of Central Saint Martin fabric design.

From 2008 to 2009, Kingston University/Kingston University acted as a visiting lecturer to guide students to integrate textiles into the final series with women's and men's clothing as the theme. From September 2016 to March 2017, LCF/Lunshi served as the project director; From April 2008 to 2010, she served as a lecturer of undergraduate women's dress design, mainly teaching: Surface Textiles BA; From March 2008 to September 2016, she was a lecturer of women's dress design and a full-time lecturer of the School of Design and Technology.

Focus on research, design and development, illustration, demonstration and aesthetic education. In addition to this work, he is also a member of the team developing this course and its relevance to the future of fashion education. From January 2014 to January 2019, he served as the director of the Department of Fashion Design. The principal of the agency course of Graduate Diploma Fashion Design Technology was a postgraduate diploma in fashion design technology, preparing students for the master's degree. From February 2019 to now, he is a senior lecturer in fashion design and currently works at Manchester City University.

　　 Compared with other art schools, what application conditions will LCF pay special attention to when recruiting students?

James, former dean of Lunyi LCF Women's Wear Design Department, said:

　　LCF they’re really looking for students who know what they want to commit to fashion education， they are looking for the professional quality of work,someone who seems themselves industry.

　　Any BA will require the student to be creative and independent learners and thinkers， we are staff to facilitate the student learning but it very much of the student to come with their ideas what they would like to achieve，what else has done on the course.

　　We are not an education assistant that will tell the student what to do， but we going to encourage them how to push themselves forward themselves.

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In the dialogue, James mentioned a very important point. No matter you are currently preparing a collection of works, or the students who have entered the school, you should know and be very clear: the relationship between teachers and students in teaching is not dominated by teachers, who simply "push" knowledge to students, and students can only accept it.

On the contrary, students should be the leader in the learning process. Especially for students applying for art design majors, the ability of independent thinking and creation is very important. In this process, the role of the teacher is more like a facilitator guiding students forward, helping students to think deeply.

When it comes to LCF, when selecting students, enrollment auditors will pay more attention to the maturity and independence of students. They should be thinkers with independent creativity and independent learning ability. For example, on the official website of LCF Women's Wear Design, the school also mentioned that Students are encouraged to use their vision and skills to challenge and progress the industry at large./The school encourages students to use their own vision and professional ability to challenge and develop the whole fashion industry.

In the course description, Lunyi LCF women's dress design gives such a definition: Through a series of challenging projects, Students will be enabled to question, test and redefine their approaches.

Secondly, in terms of curriculum projects: Projects set out to environment experience, critical thinking and independence.

From this point of view, for LCF London Fashion Institute For example, independence is not only a characteristic that students need to reflect in their works, but also a creative attitude that students need to hold all the time after entering the school.

For example, Yuexuan, a student who received an LCF offer from natural light, has a project on autistic children in his work collection. In recent years, the theme of autism has increasingly appeared in the work collection of students in various majors. Because of the proliferation of themes, many students will inevitably fall into a flat state when creating.

But in the process of creating this project, the professional tutor of natural light will guide Yuexuan to start from the most real feelings, to really think about this theme, and find the cross elements between himself and the theme, so as to expand more realistically. Because each of us has unique ideas and feelings, works that combine our own feelings are often more unique.

The original intention of the creation of this theme is also derived from Yuexuan's own personal experience: Yuexuan once participated in a charity activity for autistic children, which is the first time for Yuexuan to contact with autistic children and see their paintings.

Because it is difficult for people to communicate directly with autistic patients through ordinary communication methods, autistic children are also called "children of stars". Although the name is fantastic and wonderful, and the method is full of fairy tale beauty, it is just like this, which makes people feel deeply sad. So Yuexuan began to think - what is the reason why these children's works are so different?

It was from then on that Yuexuan began to think deeply and take the initiative to understand autistic children. In the process of creation, Yuexuan first chose to extract colors from the paintings of autistic children, and combined felt wool as the main fabric. Felt wool is mainly woven from fibers. The random and orderly combination of fibers reminds Yuexuan of the unique thinking mode of autistic children.

Secondly, the subversive thinking of autistic children also makes Yuexuan want to show it as a specific visual element. Therefore, in terms of the pattern of clothing, Yuexuan boldly breaks through the transformation and exaggerates the folds and proportions of trouser legs and sleeves. It is this most authentic feeling and experience that makes Yuexuan's collection more independent and emotional. It is precisely such thoughts and feelings that made Yuexuan obtain the LCF offer.

　　 Which application requirements do you think are most easily ignored but very important?

James, former dean of Lunyi LCF Women's Wear Design Department, said:

　　There’s will always be going to the minimum requirement to the IELTS in order to get your VISA to study in the UK.Depending on the level of the course you are applying for this will be slightly higher.

　　So, those of you wishing to do the International preparation for fashion，may not need such a higher IELTS score，because you will be working on language development for out that first year.

　　UAL also offer pre-sessional language study as well， so students can attend those sections before the courses beginning in September，and that gives you an opportunity to develop your language.

　　What is important to remember is the IELTS score to help your admission tutor know whether your capable that gonna be a lot of talking， that gonna be a lot of writing，so to think about your IELTS scores is an indicator，it’s a good way to think.

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In the answer to this question, James gave the answer of "language", which is the same as the answer we got in the conversation with Trevor, a former recruitment consultant of MICA yesterday.

Language seems to be the best thing to deal with when studying abroad, but because of this, it is often ignored by students, especially students studying in art. Many students think that even if the language does not meet the standard, it does not matter because of the collection of works. In fact, this is not the case.

First of all, any art school has its own minimum language score. For example, the score of many high-quality art schools is not even lower than that of major international students. For example, the GID of RCA Huangyi, the language requirement is IELTS 7.0. Today, we focus on LCF women's dress design, and the language requirement is not lower.

On the one hand, from the perspective of colleges and universities, as James said, the reason why colleges and universities require students to submit language scores is not only to check whether students can successfully follow the teacher to complete the course in class, but also to link up the course progress. It is also an assessment of students' ability, because the language exam will include many listening, speaking, reading and writing items; Love said that this is a performance of learning ability and attitude.

Secondly, we also discussed the choice of language and collection of works with students in student interviews before, and most of the students' suggestions are: get the language as soon as possible, and then prepare the collection of works. Therefore, for art students, language is not unimportant.

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In particular, many students will get a conditional offer for language reasons. Although the teacher will not treat you specially because you get a conditional offer when you enter the school, you must also know that if your language scores still fail to meet the requirements of the school before the specified date, even if your portfolio is excellent, How urgent was the school to "break the rules" and issue Conditional offer for you? At this time, the Conditional offer will also become a piece of waste paper. It is even more likely that because of language achievements, they will not be able to attend Dream School and have to choose other schools.

Don't think this is impossible. You should know that the school "breaks the rules" to admit students when the language is not up to the standard. This is an exception even if it happens every year. As early as 2016, when Natural Light just started the enrollment season, Magen, a member of the current overseas alliance, said that the collection of Chinese students' works often surprised her, especially many works combined with Chinese culture, which made her feel amazing and full of unique attraction.

But it was just this recruitment activity that made it difficult for her to communicate smoothly with most students in English on the spot, and she often needed the help of the translation teacher, which made her feel regretful and worried.

Therefore, once you have the idea of going abroad to study art, you must start to prepare, not only for the collection of works, but also for the language. Even if the advanced language class is decided, the language class also has a score requirement. And we must clearly know that the earlier the language test is taken and the more seriously we prepare for it, the less time and money we spend on language courses will be greatly reduced.

Natural light obtained LCF offer student's work collection

In today's conversation with James, the former dean of Lunyi LCF Women's Wear Design Department, we saw that LCF pays great attention to uniqueness when recruiting students. James explained this in combination with the relationship between teachers and students in teaching. In the process of teaching, students should be the people leading the learning, and teachers are the main driving force to help students promote the learning process. This is coincident with the teaching concept of natural light. In the process of teaching by natural light professional tutors, teachers are not only guides for students, but also enlighteners and suggestions. With their own higher experience and creative experience as support, teachers guide students to find more possibilities in their profession or creation independently, and through experiments, research Try various ways to further experience and harvest.

Secondly, in the specific application notes, James also specifically mentioned a point that many students will ignore - language. Students often ask us: Teacher, is language examination so important for studying art abroad? The answer is very positive: important!

Not only language scores, but also GPA and other application materials called "standardization". They are called "standardization", which means they are the most basic standards and application conditions in art study abroad. If we say that in the review and evaluation of the collection of works, there are some perceptual points and subjective feeling points. In the review of "standardized" materials, there is no room to specify the score items. If you want to know more about LCF women's dress design, please come to natural light for free consultation!

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