Fashion Design with Business Studies

Course structure

Year 1 introduces you to the technical skills of fashion design, including pattern cutting, draping and garment manufacture. This will enable you to explore design and fashion in both a cultural and commercial context.

Year 2 offers design projects for appropriate fashion markets. You will develop your communication and presentation skills for the workplace and reflect these in a professional portfolio.

In year 3 you will develop and produce a fully realised capsule fashion collection together with a supporting professional portfolio. The work that you generate will respond to a particular market that you establish at the beginning of your final year of study.

Career and progression opportunities

Graduates from the University of Brighton's Fashion and Textile programmes are employed in prestigious fashion houses worldwide, for example, H&M, Max Mara, Chloe, Balenciaga and Burberry. Other alumni including Emma Cook and Ophelia Fancy have established their own companies and design labels. Other graduates work in the fashion industry as designers, buyers, merchandisers, trend predictors, stylists and retail managers, as well as in journalism and media and as academics, researchers and educators.

Mode of Attendance : Full-time