Draping Womenswear Design Short Course

Petra Metzger

Petra Metzger is a fashion designer and educator with international experience spanning 20 years in the fashion industry and 11 years in education. She has a broad range of experience that includes commercial and high-end fashion design for international businesses. She created the womenswear fashion brand EINE LTD, and over many years leveraged students and creative professionals to the next step in their career.
Petra is highly qualified through a creative and technical education in fashion. Initially trained as a dressmaker, Petra successfully completed her BA and MA in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins. She gained international industry experience in London, Paris, Switzerland and Rio de Janeiro and worked amongst others with Haider Ackermann, Hussein Chalayan, Peter Jensen, Swiss Hest Group and Lenny Niemeyer. Drawing on this experience, in her teaching Petra effectively engages a range of learners from high schoolers to experienced creatives and working designers. Amongst many other places, she has taught Fashion at Norwich University, multiple degree and short courses at Central Saint Martins, and co-created and led the post graduate fashion school Orbita at Centro-br in Rio de Janeiro.
Petra is a warm and people friendly person with a future-orientated and holistic mindset, passionate about eliciting personal potentials and sharing inspiration, and with a love of creative endeavours and realisation of ideas with others.
 

Stamo Ampatielou

For the last thirty years, Stamo Ampatielou, has been working in the fashion industry, consulting companies on production and manufacturing processes and training personnel on pattern cutting and garment technology.

Her expertise includes both womenswear and menswear of all market levels. Stamo is also a senior lecturer in Istituto Marangoni, London and Mumbai and a visiting lecturer on CSR and sustainability, in various establishments around the world.

Having studied numerous fashion related crafts in Athens, Greece and London, UK, among others, she is a graduate of London College of Fashion, holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Stamo’s interests include millinery, shoe making, weaving, embroidery and various surface techniques for textiles. She is a passionate researcher and collector of garments, embroideries and textiles from different cultures and eras.

Salima Sule Ali

Salima Sule Ali is a London-based Womenswear Fashion Designer and facilitator in the art of creativity. Since graduating from the London College of Fashion in 2020 with a BA in Design & Technology Womenswear, she has built her namesake made-to-order luxury brand, SALIMA.ALI, driven by her passion for quality craftsmanship.

Her work is grounded in the principles of quality, craftsmanship, and sustainability in design. With over 10 years of experience in the apparel and fashion industry, Salima has held roles such as Production Assistant, Garment Technologist, Pattern Cutter, and Digitiser. She has collaborated with leading fashion brands and couture houses, gaining extensive knowledge of both creative production processes and the business operations that sustain a fashion brand.

Salima's passion for creative subjects has enabled her to work with a wide range of organisations. Alongside running her brand, she collaborates with University of the Arts London (UAL) as a creativity facilitator, working on projects with the Widening Participation Outreach department and partner colleges. Through these collaborations, she shares her love of fashion and creativity with students while enhancing their knowledge and access to pursue creative pathways at the degree level.

After completing her PG Cert in Academic Practice at UAL in 2022, Salima continues to evolve her practice as a Visiting Practitioner and Guest Lecturer at the London College of Fashion. Central to her teaching philosophy is the belief that facilitating creativity transcends age, and that true knowledge exchange is driven by a passion to explore.

Philip Mauger

With extensive experience in luxury fashion houses, Philip brings specialist knowledge and skill to the courses he conducts.

In 2005, during an MA in Womenswear at CSM, Philip began cutting for Vivienne Westwood's special clients, moving rapidly onto her specialist tailoring and Gold label show collections. Later moving to Lanvin in Paris to assist Alber Elbaz as a runway designer, Philip became responsible for some of the most identifiable silhouettes during its 2009-2011 collections. Philip followed this with further design and consultancy roles at McQueen, Paul Smith and Akris in Switzerland. Philip headed up Womenswear Design at Nicole Farhi during 2011-12 and became a Runway Womenswear Designer/Design Atelier Director at Burberry 2017-2020.

Throughout his fashion career, Philip has also worked extensively in film, developing/cutting costumes for productions ranging from Star Wars, James Bond and Into the Woods, to more recent Warner Bros/Marvel productions and series such as Captain Marvel and Loki. Philip currently develops costumes for contemporary and period productions.

Always involved in education, as a CSM alumni, Philip continues to tutor on the CSM short courses schedule. Philip has also tutored final years at Instituto Marangoni, conducted pattern cutting/folio design and design development classes at LCF and guest lectured at The Royal Collage for final year MA students.