Fashion and Clothing Design

BA (Hons) Fashion and Clothing Design
Mode: full-time

The Programme:
This BA Honours Degree programme encourages and nurtures the development of innovative and inventive fashion and clothing designers with a complementary balance of theoretical and practical skills. It recognises that currency, competitiveness and marketplace credibility are essential, and that clothes and accessories – and the industries that design, manufacture and market them – matter hugely in our image-conscious culture. Studio practice and contextual study are combined to offer the student the fullest range of creative and critical influences and possibilities. Students will be both informed and inspired, and gain confidence in their ability to deliver highly individual solutions to exciting creative challenges.

What You Study:
Year 1

• Academic and Professional Skills.
• Visual Presentation.
• Fashion Drawing and Illustration.
• Design Exploration and Application.
• Photographic Techniques.
• Principles of Pattern Cutting and Draping Fabric.
• Integrated Design Project.

Year 2

• Contemporary Fashion and Visual Culture.
• Applied Contextual Studies.
• Research and Development for Fashion Design.
• Event Design Project.
• Business Planning.
• Dissertation 1.
• Independent Design Project.

Year 3

• Responsive Design Project.
• Live Project Management.
• Dissertation 2.
• Materials and Technologies.
• Marketing Management.
• Contextual and Critical Connections.
• Major Project Presentation.

Special Features:
Students are enabled to generate, progress and realise ideas; to explore, develop, refine and apply Fashion and Clothing Design skills and techniques; to deliver, present and evaluate their outcomes; analyse, address and solve creative problems; apply a range of Fashion and Clothing Design concepts and principles in innovative new frameworks and relationships; examine and deconstruct visual culture; respond to environmental themes and consider the mechanisms of the marketplace; pursue their own areas of interest and involvement, and realise personal preferences and aspirations as Fashion and Clothing designers

Essential Information:
People who take this course could go on to:
Take up career opportunities in a range of areas within the Fashion and Clothing Design industry and/or take advantage of self-employment and fee-earning opportunities.

Entry Requirements:
140 points at Advanced level (80 at A2) or equivalent OR National Diploma at MPP OR 2 National Awards at Merit OR NVQ Level 3 in a related subject with a satisfactory reference OR "Life Experience" will also be taken into account when considering applications from mature students OR Holders of Higher National Diploma in Design will be considered for direct entry into the second year of the programme. Holders of a Foundation Degree in Design will be considered for direct entry into the third year, after successful completion of a short briding programme. An admission assignment may be used in certain circumstances.