Kwantlen’s  Fashion Design & Technology Program was proud to bring the Julian Roberts 2010 Subtraction Cutting Tour to Vancouver in June 2010.

Julian Roberts is a fashion designer and film-maker, who has shown 13 collections at London Fashion Week under 5 label names: nothing nothing, JULIANAND, Julian and Sophie, Parc deS EXpositions, and Tunnel Technique. He has won the British Fashion Council’s ‘New Generation Award’ 5 times. He also Creative Directed SuperSuper Magazines two group shows at London Fashion Week in 2007/8.
Julian is currently Fashion Host of BBC Blast online. He is an accomplished scholar and teacher with an impressive history of classes, lectures and demonstrations given in the UK and throughout Europe and America. He was awarded a Professorship and set up the new fashion school at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK in 2004, and now lectures MA Mixed Media Textiles at the Royal College of Art in London, and at 8 other universities worldwide.

Julian Roberts is the inventor of a garment pattern cutting method called ‘Subtraction Cutting’, which he demonstrates live in front of large audiences in America and the UK, teaching people of all ages and levels of expertise how to construct creative clothing. On Friday June 18th, 2010, Julian presented to a sold out crowd of over 150 people. The evening was a huge success!

On the following Saturday, a  Master Class was taught by Julian Roberts. It  sold out almost immediately to 30 lucky people. To purchase his book go to: http://www.centerforpatterndesign.org/

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