Fashion Design and Technology: Menswear

Master

In London

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Description

  • Duration

    15 Months

The programme aims to continue the link between the impossible and the achievable through high and low tech craftsmanship. You will challenge aesthetics, and be a global player in the promotion of individual creativity. Suitable for: Individuals who can respond to challenge, are articulate and can contribute original ideas and a keen awareness of current issues in many aspects of fashion.

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London
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100 Curtain Road, EC2A 3AA

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London
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20 John Prince'S St, W1G 0BJ

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About this course

You should have:

* A good Honours degree in a related discipline (2:1 or above) or equivalent qualification or a minimum of 3 years industrial experience at an appropriate level.
* IELTS level 6.5 or equivalent if English is not the first language.

Related disciplines include fashion, textiles or product design.

Your application should include a short essay, two references and your portfolio supplied on a disc or sent electronically. Any pieces of work larger than A4 can be shown if selected for interview.

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Course programme

Content

MA Fashion Design and Technology: Menswear provides an opportunity to challenge clothing through technology, and in the process, develop innovative techniques for mastering fashion. Our designers are a unique force of freethinkers who accept no boundaries.

The course offers multidisciplinary framework for independent study leading to an original body of practical or written work, for example an innovative collection of menswear, a technological investigation into new methods with prototypes, or a dissertation on a design-based subject. The concept for the final major project is proposed and negotiated by the student.

Menswear is becoming increasingly important in the retail sector. The global market has grown rapidly acknowledging the market trend that is not set to change, only grow.

Students on MA Fashion Design and Technology: Menswear can incorporate a further specialism such as embroidery, knitwear, tailoring and innovative pattern cutting.

Structure

The course encourages a strong interdependence between design and technology. Students are inspired to take risks in order to produce groundbreaking, highly individual work. They can choose either to work within a commercially viable market or, alternatively, they might aspire to become an innovator working within the avant-garde arena. The course encourages creativity both conceptually and technically. The intensive programme is split into three distinct course units.

The first unit, Creative and Technical Development, is designed to evaluate and improve technical and practical skills. You work individually and develop creative work through a personal project. Technical and workshop inductions in CAD, tailoring, print, embroidery, corsetry, laser, leather and sonic technology that introduces you to the extensive technical facilities and specialist staff of the College. This enables you to create techniques from technology and in turn, innovate through design.

The second unit, Research, Development and Professional Links, encourages students to consolidate their area of specialism and to research into their proposed MA project. There is an opportunity to build contacts with high profile national and international companies forging potential collaborative links. Alongside this personal development, the Contextual Studies unit provides breadth to your studies with themes including historical, cultural, design and global business perspectives on fashion.

The final unit comprises the negotiated major project: Development of Specialism and Project Realisation. This project is the culmination of the your personal ideas and investigations towards the realisation of an original body of work and is showcased in a final exhibition.

Time Required - work/study balance

Postgraduate study is based on a balance between taught contact in seminars, lectures and tutorials and time spent on independent research and study. Full time students are expected to devote four days per week to study. In the first stage of the course, course units are held on two to three days and one evening per week.

Dedication

15 months, full time (4 terms).

Career Prospects

Master's graduates have an acknowledged advantage in the employment market, obtaining work in a wide range of vocational and academic fields related to fashion. The course provides the industry with graduates who will have the capability to work as part of a creative team as a colleague and an individual. The graduate will have transferable skills for the creative industries including an understanding of high levels of design, time and project management, production and technical knowledge of types of manufacture supported by an aesthetic awareness and academic underpinning.

The course in the past has benefited from constant contact with the industry. External assessors and tutors, leading buying and merchandising teams, stylists and photographers, journalists and editors, entrepreneurs and business consultants show an increasing interest in the emerging talent the course generates. International employers include Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen, Zac Posen, Chloe, Loewe, Pringle, Hussein Chalayan, Roland Mouret, Topman, Savile Row Tailors, Browns Focus, Harvey Nichols, Topman, Savile Row Tailors and Browns Focus.

Graduates from the current MA Fashion Design and Technology have gained employment as innovators within the broad field of fashion design and technology or have identified a fashion house, large corporate company or alternatively choose to build their own identity through the launch of their own design label. Further employment of graduates has included trend prediction, stylist, illustrator, freelance designer or broad aspects of the creative industries.

The MA also provides an excellent preparation for higher level research degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing number of graduates undertaking research in fashion related subjects.

Additional information

Payment options: Home/EU Fee £4,075 International Fee £12,250
Career opportunities: Master's graduates have an acknowledged advantage in the employment market, obtaining work in a wide range of vocational and academic fields related to fashion. The course provides the industry with graduates who will have the capability to work as part of a creative team as a colleague and an individual. The graduate will have transferable skills for the creative industries including an understanding of high levels of design, time and project management, production and technical knowledge of types of manufacture supported by an aesthetic awareness and academic underpinning...
Contact person: Darren Cabon

Fashion Design and Technology: Menswear

Price on request