The conference provides a platform for pattern cutters, fashion designers, students and educators to explore the impact and direction for creative pattern cutting.

The conference aims to:

• Encourage discussion of new methods and techniques in creative pattern cutting, inspiring technical and design innovation.
• Develop ways in which the fashion industry promotes pattern cutting as a career, emphasizing its creative integrity and magnetism.
• Enhance ways in which tacit knowledge and the making process are considered as legitimate forms of research enquiry.
• Promote equity for the roles of the creative pattern cutter and the fashion designer in terms of esteem and renumeration.
• Balance debates about the knowledge and practical experience of traditional processes in the context of technological and digital development.

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