Program Overview

Fast paced and dynamic, this course seeks to support you in developing your individual creativity and fashion design judgment, encouraging an active approach to learning through the ongoing production of innovative fashion artefacts.

• You will have the opportunity to participate in live projects, competition briefs and hear from visiting experts who will offer you a diverse, cultural and global perspective of the fashion industry2 (subject to availability).
• You will be encouraged to think critically and independently, to consider and respond to the challenges facing the fashion industry and society in general with the aim of becoming a truly global graduate.

Why you should study this course

• The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing our BA (Hons) Fashion, Brand and Communication and BA (Hons) International Fashion Business courses, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn.
• The BA (Hons) Fashion course is a hands-on, creative course. With theory embedded throughout module activities, the work you will undertake will be creative in its content and approach. You will work towards creating fashion artefacts (in their broadest definition), demonstrating your skills as an innovative and directional practitioner who is able to realise ideas as brave, experimental outcomes.
• With a newly refurbished Art and Design aiming to be opened in 2023, you will have access to industry standard facilities4, enabling you to work in a range of scales, materials and processes. You will be encouraged to develop and apply both 2D and 3D techniques and will apply both analogue (traditional) and digital (new technology) approaches to ensure you develop an individual creative identity and ways of working relevant to current and emerging creative sector standards.
• You will be introduced to current and emerging ways of working, combining materials and processes in new ways. With a strong technical core in the course, you are encouraged to consider “making” in its bravest sense and to apply your knowledge of materials and processes to the development of new products and artefacts, relevant to the fashion industry.
• This course, along with others in the suite of Fashion courses is highly internationally focused. You may benefit from a wealth of international experience established by the course founders; who are passionate about ensuring global collaboration and industry readiness and who seek opportunities to develop solid international awareness and experience where possible2. Themes included within course modules embrace this global approach and you are encouraged to consider diverse perspectives and references from the start of the course.