BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

Learn the professional skills to become an innovative stylist in the creative world of fashion image-making, on this undergraduate styling course.About this courseBA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production is situated in the School of Media and Communication, and prepares you for a career as a fashion stylist where increasingly you need to be aware of developments, such as new technologies and platforms, within the industry you want to enter on graduation. The course will therefore facilitate your understanding and knowledge of production as well as styling, which will give you another set of relevant skills.LocationThis course is based at Lime Grove in Shepherd’s Bush. Find out about the local area, including Holland Park and Notting Hill in our local area guides on the Student Life pages.Media and communication FacilitiesFind us at Lime GroveSTUDENT WORKFashion Spaces - a showcase of undergraduate work from the fashion media courses at LCF, took place at House of Vans in London in early 2017.TRIPS, PROJECTS AND WORKSHOPSSTUDENT GALLERIES AND INDUSTRY PROJECTSNike Sustainable Materials ProjectClear Shampoo AdWhistles Window Display ProjectLATEST NEWS1 of 6Step inside the Whistles store takeover by Fashion Styling and Production students2 of 6BA Fashion Styling and Production students transform Vogue Fabrics3 of 6Class of 2017: BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production graduate Jil Carrara4 of 6Media & communication students win BA Fashion Matters Final Collection or Research AwardsView allFACILITIESLCF LibraryTake a tour of LCF's world renowned fashion library, ideal for research and study.Media facilities at Lime GroveTake a tour of Lime Grove's media facilities from photographic studios to darkrooms.LCF's social spacesExplore our social spaces, for collaborative study and breaks, across our six sites in London.

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London
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20 John Princes Street

Start date

On request

About this course

ENTRY REQUIREMENTSEntry to this course is highly competitive: applicants are expected to achieve, or already have, the course entry requirements detailed below .The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:A Level Passes at Grade C or Above Preferred subjects include Art, Design, Fashion, Media Studies, and Photography;or Pass Foundation Diploma in Art and Design;or Pass at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects) Art & Design, Fashion, Media Studies, and Photography;or Pass at UAL Extended Diploma; or Access Diploma or ’64 tariff points from the...

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Subjects

  • Stylist
  • Staff
  • Market
  • Approach
  • Design
  • Materials
  • Fashion Styling
  • Art
  • Image
  • International
  • School
  • Public
  • Project
  • Industry
  • Team Training
  • Communication Training
  • Media
  • Production
  • Fashion Stylist

Course programme

Course detail

This course is subject to revalidation. Revalidation is a process that makes sure students get a high quality academic experience. During revalidation there may be some changes to course content. Please contact us if you have any questions about this course.

All the fashion media and communication courses are based in Lime Grove, which means that every student can benefit from the skills of students on complementary courses. The importance of teamwork will be explored through collaborative projects that you will undertake, and you also work independently to develop your skills and personal style in preparation for the industry. You will acquire the practical skills of styling and production, together with broader academic studies which give you a contemporary and historical understanding of your creative discipline within the wider perspectives of fashion, society and the environment. This will integrate the practical and theoretical aspects of your learning. You will also learn research skills, both visual and academic, which will underpin your creative practice and develop your analytical skills and critical awareness, in readiness for the two major assignments that you will undertake in your final year. Contact with the industry throughout the course increases your opportunities for employment after graduation, as does the opportunity to attend workshops to hone your skills in preparing for employment.

Course structure

Year one - stage one - level 4 - 120 credits

Term one: Introduction to Fashion Styling and Production(20 credits); Key Concepts in Styling (20 credits)

Term two: Introduction to Cultural and Historical Studies (20 credits); Key Concepts in Production (20 credits)

Term three: Collaborative Practice: Fashion Spreads (40 credits)

Year two - stage two - level 5 - 120 credits

Term one: Cultural and Historical Studies (20 credits); Mediating Fashion (20 credits)

Term two: Situating Your Practice: Placement/Situating Your Practice: International Study Media/Situating Your Practice: Fashioned Spaces (40 credits)

Term three: Research Methods for Fashion Styling and Production (20 credits); Style, Genre, Signature (20 credits)

Year three - stage three - level 6 - 120 credits

Term one: Collaborative Experimental Practice unit (20 credits)

Term one and term two: Cultural and Historical Studies Dissertation (40 credits)

Term Two and Term Three: Final Major Project (60 credits)

Students on this course might be invited to participate in study trips. This may involve, for example, visits to key areas of capital cities, factories, stores and museums. Attendance on these trips is not compulsory but recommended. Details regarding timings and costs will be issued closer to the relevant trips.

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Term dates for 2018/19

Autumn term:

Monday 17 September - Monday 7 December 2018

Spring term:

Monday 7 January - Friday 15 March 2019

Summer term:

Monday 15 April - Friday 21 June 2019

Course units Year one

In the first term you will study two units.

Introduction to Fashion Styling and Production gives you an understanding of your personal and professional development at university, with three core purposes: to introduce you to the necessary learning skills for undergraduate study; to show you where you are situated within the College and the University; and to help you understand what you will learn on your course and how you will develop your skills.

Key Concepts in Styling introduces you to the disciplines of styling. You will learn about fashion image construction, garment and prop sourcing, re-modification, recycling and customisation, which will inform your exploration of themes, narratives and ideas. Contextual explorations of art direction and sequencing will be investigated, including the use of the use of a variety of props and products. You will investigate the codes and conventions of dressing and situating the body within a fashion context, and explore the way in which the body is utilised to convey meaning.

Introduction to Cultural and Historical Studies introduces you to key concepts and ways of thinking about fashion and its context in society and culture. You will attend lectures, seminars and workshops, and do a significant amount of reading of academic texts in order to complete a formal academic essay for assessment. Completion of this unit will allow you to make an informed choice of subject for study in the second year Cultural and Historical Studies unit.

Key Concepts in Production gives you an understanding of the language, processes and practices of fashion production. The unit will ‘unpack’ the processes and modes of production used with you acting as a fashion practitioner in fashion related industries. You will learn that production is understood and facilitated through the language of fashion, conceptual application, context, site, audience, and multi-platform locations. You will gain an understanding of the stages of production and product placement, which will assist you in facilitating production knowledge and skills. Focus is placed upon traditional and abstract ideas of production including, fashion production systems, capturing, rendering, static media, time-based media, technological communication, including multimedia formats in the presentation of narrative construction. The application and sequencing of your ideas will be informed through an understanding of the broad range of platforms available to you.

In the third term you will do the Collaborative Practice: Fashion Spreads unit, where you will work together with others as part of a team on an assignment that reflects the professional practice of fashion image-making. You will focus on research and production strategies, as well as on 2D and 3D thinking and realisation. Fashion ideation requires strategic and inventive experimentation to test expression and foster critical thinking. You will produce conceptual and creative outcomes for a selected site, location and audience, and through this will increase both your knowledge and your practical skills. In producing conceptual and creative outcomes for a selected site, location, and audience, you will gain insightful knowledge and practical skills. This simulation will introduce you to professional collaborative practice.

Year two

In the first term you will be able to study a Cultural and Historical Studies unit of your choice that will broaden or deepen your learning of areas relating to your interests in your chosen field. You will have the opportunity to participate in lectures, seminars and workshops with students from other courses within your School, and will read relevant academic texts and complete a formal academic essay for assessment.

Also studied in the first term is the Mediating Fashion unit. You will investigate how ideas and concepts can be communicated creatively and effectively through multiple formats and you will explore current practice in this field. You will learn how fashion image production has shifted as a result of technological developments in contemporary culture, and you will look at the mediation of fashion through a film format. Your final outcome will present content so that meaning and product are understood for print, screen and the environment. In addition, you will develop the technical skills to enable you to adopt an experimental approach to your work including pre and post-production techniques, underpinned with contemporary relevance for a selected location/platform.

Second term options:

Situating Your Practice: Placement aims to develop your professional skills within an industry environment. On your placement you will be able to experience the pace, atmosphere and discipline of working in the industry. This will give you practical experience of the roles, functions and operations within the industry. The unit requires a minimum of 60 work placement hours.

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Situating Your Practice: International Study Media provides an opportunity to apply previous learning whilst studying your subject in a different institution. You will develop skills within your practice and gain credits for your current course whilst engaging with the academic culture of your host institution. The unit also demands a critical approach to the management of your own learning through reflection and planning.

Please note: we are unable to guarantee that every course will have an agreement with a partner host institution. As such, this unit is subject to availability. There will be a selection and application process for students who are interested in applying to take this unit of study.

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Situating Your Practice: Fashioned Spaces will introduce you to the processes, platforms and formats which are available for you to use in order to showcase your specialist creative practice. The unit will offer you the opportunity to situate, curate, produce and display your innovative body of work within a site-specific context and devise and promote its exposure to a real-life audience. During the course of the unit you will be able to experience your discipline as a public event, which will give you hands-on experience of the roles, functions and operations within the context of professional fashion community.

In the third term you do the Research Methods for Fashion Styling and Production unit, which provides the bedrock for both your dissertation proposal for Cultural and Historical Studies and your Final Major Project. For your dissertation you will look at two key stages in the production of the dissertation, the literature review and research, and at their relationship to each other. You will also consider the relationship between primary and secondary sources, ways of developing and originating research, and ways of realising the research appropriate to Cultural and Historical Studies. You will also investigate the methods of research appropriate to your core practice as a visual practitioner in the field of fashion styling and production. You will demonstrate a systematic understanding and knowledge of research methods and concepts in your field, allowing you to devise and sustain arguments and / or solve problems. You will engage with ideas, techniques, and practice to describe and visually comment upon particular aspects of current research appropriate for fashion styling production.

Also in the third term you will do the Style, Genre, Signature unit, which will introduce you to the importance of developing your recognisable personal style for your subject specialism. You will be introduced to key practitioners in the field who have shaped and employed both personal style and aligned it to their practice in their own unique way. The importance of the way in which unique and authentic visions are developed will be emphasised. Consideration of the themes visible in key areas of your practice for future experimentation will assist you in your preparation for industry. You will be expected to reflect on your work to date and make decisions on how you will progress in preparation for your professional practice. Doing this now will benefit you for your final year of study.

Year three

Collaboration and experimentation are essential aspects of the creative process especially with regards to the fashion image industry. Collaborative Experimental Practice unit will offer you an opportunity to explore and expand the parameters of your work by engaging in collaborations that facilitate experimentation, creative thinking, practical testing and reflective problem solving, all in the context of an industry related brief. Creative outcomes and focused experimentation derived from this unit could inform the process that you explore and expand upon in your Final Major Project next term.

In the first and second terms you will undertake a major piece of written work for the Cultural and Historical Studies Dissertation unit. This allows you to demonstrate your understanding of the critical and analytical perspectives developed within cultural and historical theory, and how you can apply these theoretical perspectives in a specific study, which you will have already identified in the third term of the second year. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to undertake primary and secondary research that examines in depth cultural issues relating to a particular aspect of fashion, lifestyle, the body, performance or the media, and to produce a written piece of work that reflects the critical debates around your chosen topic.

The Final Major Project, undertaken in the second and third terms, gives you the opportunity to produce an extended body of practical work at an advanced conceptual, technical and aesthetic level. This will be a development from the range of cultural and practical work that you have undertaken so far on the course. The outcome will be directed towards a specific and clearly identified audience.

Programme specification 2017-18
  • BA Fashion Styling and Production Programme Specification (PDF 76KB)

Staff

Clare Buckley is Course Leader BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production and an established fashion stylist and creative director and has worked with the language of clothes, objects and materials within the fashion industry for over ten years as a fashion editor and stylist for publications including Russh, Wallpaper* and the Guardian: Weekend magazine In both womenswear and menswear, alongside advertising, music, celebrity and film work. Her interest focuses on curated aesthetic and a colour-based enquiry with an investigation into styling language against multi disciplinary platforms and productions. Her work encourages the sensorial and emotionality of fashion and styling language and the spirit conveyed behind all visual productions and stories against a wider fashion landscape. In collaborative mode her works leads projects for students, staff and Industry as part of a programme of public speaking, workshops and festivals such as EIFF Festival 2016, 2014, Vogue Ukraine Fashion 2016 Business Art & Design Conference and 2014 Linder & Tate St Ives Hepworth & The Arts Ball, alongside collaborating Internationally within styling, art directing and producing fashion editorials. She has styled celebrity clients such as Paloma Faith, Siouxie Sioux, Julie Delphy, David tenant, Sophie Hunt, and Sophie Ellis Bextor. She has over 8 years experience within creative arts higher arts within styling & production. Clare Buckley is the co-author of International styling textbook Basics Fashion Design 08: Styling.

Karen Savage is Senior Lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production, a designer, stylist, trend forecaster, creative director, blogger and artist with a wealth of experience. Karen came on the scene in the early 1990’s with her own critically-acclaimed fashion label, SAVAGE, garnering extensive media coverage for her controversial slogan t-shirts. Karen has worked with many clients over the years including Absolut Vodka, BBC3, Directory of Social Change, Exposure PR, Hotel Pelirocco, Mobile 3, Nokia, Ogilvy and Mather, Taiwan Textile Federation, The Fawcett Society, The Observer and Traid. She is currently a freelance Creative Director in Print and Licensing for the UK high street and independent market. Karen holds a PG Cert in Teaching and Learning, has been a Visiting Fellow at The Hong Kong Design Institute, and is a recent recipient of the UAL Teaching Award.

Sarah May is Lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production and fashion set designer, props stylist and artist. Her work focuses on the styled aesthetic and is situated and produced across international multi -platforms. Trained as a Fine Artist specialising in sculpture and installation she has a natural intuition for harmonising elements and for using shape and movement within diverse spatial contexts. Key themes within her practice are based around the physicality of the body, how the body and fashion encounter space and the intimate relationship between materials. Establishing her creative studio in 2007, she has an extensive commercial and editorial client list including British Vogue, Vice, Dazed and Confused, Japanese Vogue, Details, Arena Homme Plus, Camper, Paul Smith, Coca Cola, Selfridges, Nike and American Apparel. She was represented worldwide by Industry Art for eight years and then by The Magnet Agency for two years. Her public speaking, fashion film workshops and charity work clients include The British Council, Its Nice That and Arts Emergency. She has been profiled in numerous magazines and has self published two books.

Philip Scurrah is Lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production whose fashion styling and photographic portfolio as Fashion Editor and Director at national and international magazine titles range from the pioneering global lifestyle Wallpaper* magazine, Fashion Directorship of Selfridges magazine to Fashion Director of independent Australian style bible Russh. His worldwide industry expertise has been garnered for catwalk shows and season presentations throughout Europe, Australia and India. Philip’s extensive styling experience also developed an innovative and integrated approach to contemporary photographic image making. His former photographic partnership with Alessandra Kila, working as ‘Kila & Rusharc’ received universal media coverage, most recently featured in the group exhibition ‘Altering Space’ at The SouthWest School of Art in North America (2014). The practitioners also received a Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards (2014). Now working independently Philip continues to creatively direct and produce for a range of International clients.

Thom Murphy is Associate Lecturer BA Fashion Styling and Production Thom Murphy is an established Fashion Stylist, Art Director, Brand Consultant and Casting Director - working predominantly within the realm of contemporary men’s fashion . His editorial work - produced in conjunction with photographers such as David Sims and Alasdair McLellan – has...

BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production

£ 9,250 VAT inc.