• What are the cost implications of creative pattern cutting?
• Is the craft of creative pattern cutting ever mastered?
Does the pattern cutter ever stop learning?
• Is the knowledge and practical experience of traditional processes and hand skills in creative pattern cutting still relevant in fashion in the context of technological and digital development?
• How are inconsistency, mistake and spontaneity emphasized in the development of creative patterns?
• Is creative pattern cutting a luxury only practiced in designer led fashion, what place does it have within the high street?
• How can the fashion industry generate ingenious and imaginative pattern cutting at mass market prices?
• What is the role of creative pattern cutting in higher education fashion courses?
• How can the fashion industry promote pattern cutting as a career and give it creative integrity and allure?
• How can practical experiences of traditional and emerging processes in creative pattern cutting be successfully documented and promoted?
• How can the fashion industry and fashion education promote pattern cutting as a career that has real creative integrity and allure?
• In what ways does the creative pattern cutter break rules? Selected papers will be published in a special edition in The International

Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, Volume 6, Issue 2, published in July 2013, guest edited by Kevin Almond.

Important dates:
• Abstract (150 words) and authors’ bio (100 words): 1 April 2012 (Abstract and bio should be submitted to creativecut@hud.ac.uk)
• Notification for acceptance: 1 June 2012
• Full paper (4 - 5000 words) submission: 1 Sept 2012
• Reviewer’s feedback for symposium: 1 Jan 2013
• Early bird registration: 1 June – 1October 2013
• Registration closes: 18 Jan 2013
• Symposium: 6 and 7 Feb 2013
Hosting University: University of Huddersfield, UK

Creative Cut
Organisers: Kevin Almond and Kathryn Brennand
Contact: creativecut@hud.ac.uk