Fashion Design - BA (Hons)

Year One

These two year-long modules run side by side.

Fashion Process: Concept and Form (100 credit points)

During the first year, you’ll be introduced to fundamental aspects of the fashion design process with the aim of developing skills and confidence in the principles of the design process. This includes concept initiation, research, 2D / 3D translation, structural / form experimentation, design development, colour analysis, drawing, illustration, pattern cutting, garment construction and associated technologies including CAD.

Design, Culture and Context 1 (20 credit points)

This module will encourage you to test your research, presentation and written skills, and to be socially and culturally aware when considering your own environment and design decisions. You will learn about the power of images, objects and materials in visual and material culture, and see how these are central to the way fashion designers make meaning and communicate.

Year Two

• Fashion Context: Market and Innovation (100 credit points)
• Design, Culture and Context 2 (20 credit points)

Final year

• Fashion: Research, Design, Technology and Realisation (120 credit points)
• This year-long module includes a fashion design project and research projects.

For the fashion design project, you will produce an extensive body of 2D and 3D work, with sustained investigation into toiling, fabrication, print, garment construction, CAD, and design responsibility. You'll choose to focus either on a catwalk collection or a fashion product exhibition. For the research project, you will explore and research a relevant aspect of design, completing a written dissertation.