BA Honours Fashion Design

Bachelor's degree

In Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

£ 36,762 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    September

Our BA Honours Fashion Design degree will equip you with technical skill, support your creativity, and encourage you to develop your identity as a designer. You will cover a vast array of topics such as fashion illustration, portfolio presentation, technical drawings, garment construction and pattern cutting, corsetry, and tailoring.

Course Highlights

During this programme you will not only learn the knowledge and practical skills essential for a successful career in fashion design, but also develop self-confidence, a willingness to challenge yourself, the ability to work with others, and the skills to discover and define your own design identity. You will focus on individuality and be encouraged to question everything, and learn within a multifaceted environment in which to research, challenge, design and create. Our programme allows you to experience both menswear and womenswear design, giving you an opportunity to explore, develop and focus on your strengths.

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Location

Start date

Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
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Knowledge Park, Block 16

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course

Entry requirements

We accept students with a diverse range of entry qualifications and from varying backgrounds. The following international qualifications are normally considered for admission:

Middlesex University International Foundation Programme (IFP)
Successful completion of the Middlesex University International Foundation Programme (IFP)*** (equivalent programmes from other Universities/Colleges/Institutes will be considered).
Indian Secondary School Certificates
British A-Levels
International Baccalaureate

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Subjects

  • Creative Thinking
  • Portfolio Management
  • Design
  • Construction
  • 3d design
  • Tailoring
  • Womenswear Design
  • Fashion Illustration
  • Project
  • Industry
  • Construction Training
  • Production

Course programme

Programme Content

In your first year you will focus on developing technical skills, including pattern cutting and garment making, alongside your creative design skills. Your second year further develops these skills, and includes a menswear tailoring project and a 2D to 3D translation project where you recreate an outfit by a design and create a range of your own designs influenced by this. The third year gives you time to focus on the specialisms you have developed over previous years and hone your skills for your final portfolio work. Your final collection can be based on anything you are inspired by, and by this point you will be fully prepared to enter the fashion industry with your own design identity.

  • Year 1
    • Fashion Design Skills (30 Credits) - Compulsory

      This project runs during the first term and will introduce you to essential, core fashion design skills. It will provide a comprehensive grounding in concept and design development, underpinned with technical workshops exploring basic flat pattern-cutting and garment production skills. You will be introduced to the pattern-cutting studios where much of your work will take place, promoting a culture of studio working practice, fostering discourse and a sense of fashion community.

    • Fashion Collaborative Projects (30 Credits) - Compulsory

      During the second term, you will explore intermediate flat pattern cutting and garment production skills through a series of technical workshops. Facilitating an understanding of collaborative practice within the fashion industry, you will typically work in teams, either within the programme or with other disciplines, to produce collaborative responses to fashion briefs. You will develop a greater awareness of your own role as a designer within the broader fashion design process, promoting an interdisciplinary experience, cross fertilisation of practice and knowledge transfer.

    • Research and Communication (30 Credits) - Compulsory

      This module runs year-long. It will introduce you to the visual research skills essential to fashion design, investigating contemporary and historical fashion, through a range of cultural resources including magazines, film, gallery exhibitions and museum collections. You will consider the way in which project work is presented and communicated to an audience through a variety of outputs including social media, printed matter and online content. You will explore ways of organising and presenting your visual research, using digital and traditional methods, such as hand drawing and relevant computer-aided design tools.

    • Fashion History and Theory (30 Credits) - Compulsory Throughout this year long module, we will introduce different ways of looking at and thinking about fashion, providing an introduction to historical sources and narratives as well as key cultural and contextual theories. You will be encouraged to draw connections between fashions from the past and the present to encourage you to understand the rich cultural and social meanings of clothing and adornment in Western traditions. We cover a broad range of visual and material research methodologies, enabling you to be resourceful and explore different archives and historical collections in a hands-on way.
  • Year 2
    • Fashion Culture and Industry (30 Credits) - Compulsory To build upon the core academic research and communication skills introduced in the Fashion History and Theory project, you will develop your specialist knowledge and understanding of critical issues in contemporary fashion, related to the production, consumption and mediation of fashion as a global aspect of both culture and industry. We will cover key economic, social and theoretical concepts and explore how they influence the material, visual and consumer culture of fashion, challenging dominant historical narratives and unpicking fashion’s mythologies from a global perspective. You will develop your own independent research interests in contemporary fashion culture and industry, and a critical awareness of the fashion industry, helping you to position your creative work in an ethically-informed and culturally competent manner.
    • Menswear Design (30 Credits) - Compulsory

      This project will provide you with an opportunity to explore menswear design and garment construction. We expect you to develop innovative, individual responses to personal research through the production of a contemporary menswear collection. During this term 1 project, we will introduce bespoke tailoring techniques, exploring both traditional and contemporary methods. Advanced pattern-cutting workshops relevant to contemporary menswear will underpin the production of your individual project work.

    • Fashion Design Internship (30 Credits) - Compulsory

      To support you in the identification of possible career networks and areas of employment, this module incorporates a period of work experience within a chosen field of the fashion design industry. Taking place at the beginning of the second term, a six to seven week internship will provide the opportunity to apply the specialist and transferable skills you have acquired so far in a professional setting. You will reflect on your experiences in the workplace through the production of a visual diary of your experiences that will be presented to your peers and tutors on your return to University.

    • Fashion Industry Project (30 Credits) - Compulsory Following your internship in term 2, you will be given a range of opportunities to enable direct engagement with fashion industry practice. We encourage you to consider how your own design practice demonstrates awareness of professional standards and client expectations. You will experience researching, designing and presenting your ideas to a specific client or design company by working on live industry projects and competitions
  • Year 3
    • Contextual Studies Research Project (30 Credits) - Compulsory

      This project will allow you to engage with the identification, organisation and development of a substantial, in-depth, self-directed dissertation with a clear and sustained critical argument. We encourage the pursuit of a research topic related to issues explored in your own practice in any area of fashion. You will further develop critical awareness and self-reflection of historical and/or contemporary contexts of your discipline and research topic, building on primary and secondary research skills embedded in Years One and Two and developing your ability to identify, analyse and critically evaluate appropriate sources and research methods.

    • Collection Development and Portfolio (90 Credits) - Compulsory

      This module will run throughout your final year, consolidating all previous learning to produce individual and creative fashion responses to personal research and concepts. You will work on negotiated briefs, exploring your own identity, working towards the development and production of your final collection and portfolio through negotiated, self-directed project briefs.

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Additional information

Start: September
Duration: 3 Years
Attendance: Full Time
Course leader: Vaishali Raj Sharma MA(Education) MA (Garment Manufacturing

Fees (Total) 37.149,84 GBP
September 2020
Year 1 - 12.384,26 GBP
Year 2 - 12.384,26 GBP
Year 3 - 12.384,26 GBP

Choose Middlesex University Dubai and open up a world of opportunity. Apply and enrol onto one of our Bachelor's programmes this September 2020 and you could transfer to our home campus in London (UK) in 2021! Study for a Quality UK Degree at Middlesex University Dubai this September 2020 and open up a world of opportunity! Study Year 1 of your Bachelor’s Degree in the rapidly developing and cosmopolitan city of Dubai and take advantage of the opportunity to study in our home campus in London in Year 2!

BA Honours Fashion Design

£ 36,762 VAT inc.