About the course
If you’re looking to explore your creativity, establish your own unique style and take contemporary fashion design by storm, our course has the dedicated facilities and equipment, track record and industry links to get your designs on the domestic and international catwalks.
Our course and highly experienced academic team encourage you to experiment with designs, materials and garment-making while giving you the practical tools and wider experience you need to develop your individual creative approach.
Based at Alexon House, previously home to one of the UK's leading fashion houses, the course offers industry-standard manufacturing facilities and the latest textile processes. You have access to high-spec technology with an emphasis on digital design skills in textile and pattern cutting as well as 3D garment design on specialist software.
Why choose this course?
- Benefit from hands-on learning in a nurturing environment with ample contact time with tutors
- Our close links with the industry and leading fashion designers mean you work on real briefs and live projects, and are encouraged to enter competitions and awards
- Your personal creative development is underpinned by a sound knowledge the history of fashion design; contemporary debates in fashion; multicultural and international contexts; and understanding of the wider visual world
- Meet designers, artists, editors, curators and recruiters on a weekly basis while also getting the opportunity to join international trips to visit trade fairs and galleries
- At Alexon House, become part of a community spanning the art, design and creative industries, exploring related disciplines such as digital photography and screen-printing
- Take the course over four years and benefit from a fee-free work placement (see below) which will widen your experience, add to your CV and build your contacts for the future
- If you need a step up into higher education learning, start with a Foundation Year (see below) which guarantees you a place on the full degree course
Why study in the School of Arts and Creative Industries?
- Professional theatre and dance studios
- Latest digital and VR technologies and performance techniques
- Taught by experienced performers and practitioners
- Industry links and Media Masterclasses
- Media arts centre equipped with industry standard facilities
- Specially equipped Art and Design building
Units
- Context And Ideas (ART057-1) Compulsory
- Fashion Design: Exploring Materials And Methods (ART056-1) Compulsory
- Introducing Studio Practice (ART063-1) Compulsory
- Thinking Through Making (ART064-1) Compulsory
- Collaborative Enterprise (ART052-2) Compulsory
- Context And Meaning (ART053-2) Compulsory
- Developing Professional Practice (ART051-2) Compulsory
- Fashion Design: Developing Materials And Methods (ART059-2) Compulsory
- Creative Futures (ART029-3) Compulsory
- Critical And Creative Contexts (ART030-3) Compulsory
- Final Major Project: Fashion Design (ART025-3) Compulsory
How will this course improve my career prospects?
Employability and professional practice skills are integrated into the course and provide you with an awareness of the real-world context of the creative industries in general and fashion design in particular. You will be helped to develop a strategy for obtaining appropriate employment at the end of your course, with a work-related learning unit that will especially help you to become more focused on managing your career. You will be helped with the preparation of a professional portfolio, including a CV, and learn the social-media skills needed to promote yourself in a social-mediated art and design world.
Typical graduate destinations for Fashion Design students include work within the field of contemporary fashion and textile design as a fashion designer, fashion stylist, textile developer and selector or pattern cutter. Many graduates also choose to work in areas related to design practice such as teaching, garment technology and production.
Previous graduates have gone on to work with Alexander McQueen, Mary Katranzou, Lulu Liu, Sopie Webster, Amanda Wakeley, Zandra Rhodes, Love Magazine and Denza International. Some of our graduates have started their own label, such as Aaugust, who won Young Designer of the Year at Africa Fashion Week London.
Another avenue is further study at Master's level (Level 7) in areas such as advanced design studies, accessory design, fashion business and promotion.
*international students are eligible of receiving the VS'S scholarship of 1000GBP.
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