Fashion Design at Falmouth allows you to develop the technical and creative skills to design original and inspiring collections.
Our Fashion Studios house industry-standard facilities, including cutting tables, professional tailors' dummies, laser cutter, ultrasonic welder, steam room, industrial overlockers, and blind stitching machines.
You'll make use of a range of processes, both hand drawn and digital, to demonstrate your ideas.
Collections from the 2010 graduate fashion show.
Designer and BA(Hons) Textile Design graduate, Abi Gardener, has been appointed as British couturier, Nicholas Oakwell's embroidery designer.
Artist and BA(Hons) Contemporary Crafts graduate, Rebecca Rasmussen, has been exhibiting in According to McGee's show ‘New Visuality', in York
Five businesses and galleries in Truro are playing host for the first time to a public exhibition by second year BA(Hons) Contemporary Crafts students from 2 - 9 February.
Second year BA(Hons) Graphic Design student, Oli Bussell, has been shortlisted in the London International Creative Competition (LICC)
Level 3 BA(Hons) Textile Design student, Jen Hollidge, has secured two sponsorships for her final year project.
This exhibition showcases Fine Art students' work at the mid-point of their studies.
An exhibition by Level 2 Contemporary Crafts Students, showcasing work at a midpoint in their studies, hosted by five different venues around Truro.
A rare chance to get to know the inner workings of this collective of UK and German artists with a double bill of performance lecture and screening.
Andy Harper is an internationally recognised artist and recipient of the Latitude Contemporary Art Prize in 2011.
The Illustration Forum presents its 10th anniversary with internationally acclaimed illustrators.
Jenny Welwert Gil: Fashion Design BA(Hons) graduate - Read more
Sophie is a junior marketing manager for iconic UK shoe brand Clarks Originals. She also completed an internship with Finisterre, a pioneering ethical outdoor clothing company based in St Agnes, Cornwall.
Sophie Hawkins: Fashion Design BA(Hons) graduate - Read more
UCAS Code W232 BA/FD
We consider each application on its merits and look for evidence of commitment and motivation. For full details on the application procedure follow the link below.Read more...
Meet staff and students and discover how study at Falmouth can fast-track your career. Open days include a welcome talk, campus tours, and presentations on our courses, information on fees, finances, admissions, accommodation, and student services. Follow the link below to book online.Read more...
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A minimum of 220 UCAS points, equivalent Level 3 qualifications or relevant experience. You may be required to submit some work to help us decide who to interview. Successful applicants are generally those with the strongest portfolios, demonstrating experimentation, technical ability and understanding of the art and design process.
Location:Woodlane Campus
Length:3 years full-time
Direct line:01326 255763
I think we are all very lucky here at Falmouth to have access to such amazing facilities and staff, and I am really excited about being here. Laura Leach, BA(Hons) Fashion Design, national winner of the Lee Cooper Centenary Jeans Design competition.
From fashion forecasting and fashion illustration to fabric technology, pattern cutting and styling, BA(Hons) Fashion Design at Falmouth will prepare you for all aspects of the constantly changing world of international fashion. The course will leave you skilled, adaptable and highly employable when you graduate. What's more, Falmouth offers an exceptional environment to study fashion for contemporary lifestyles at one of the UK's leading fashion design schools.
This pioneering degree course has been devised to give you the very best start in the rapidly evolving global fashion industry. Developed with industry professionals, it allows you to develop the technical and creative edge to design original, inspiring collections.
From instigating trends and fashion drawing, to learning about comparative shopping and the commercial fashion industry, you'll experience all aspects of fashion design. Focusing on the vibrant and influential streetwear and leisure-clothing sector, you'll be encouraged to go out there and experiment, take risks and find your own path through practical experience and professional practice.
By choosing to study for a degree in Fashion Design at Falmouth you will:
This full-time course is delivered through study blocks. Project work is supported by lectures, demonstrations, field trips, professional experience and focus groups, seminars and tutorials. You'll develop peer and self-evaluation skills, which will be used in critical, conceptual, productive and professional capacities.
The course operates on a basis of continuous assessment with no formal examinations. Early on, you'll be introduced to the criteria used to assess your project work.
Our world-class Fashion Studios house the latest technology and industry-standard facilities, including:
Our BA(Hons) Fashion Design students recently collaborated with Performance Sportswear Design, Public Relations, Press & Editorial Photography, Graphic Design, Textile Design, Digital Media, Dance and Music students to put on a catwalk fashion show for an audience of over 800 at the Fal Festival.
Press release: Falmouth graduate fashion show 2010
Our students have undertaken work placements with the following companies:
International fashion brand Diesel is also offering internships for University College Falmouth students.
Laura Leach a student on the BA(Hons) Fashion Design course has been named the National winner of the Lee Cooper Centenary Jeans Design competition.
Laura won the competition in only her second term at Falmouth against competition from all years from every Fashion Department in the UK. Lee Cooper went out of its way to highly recommend three other Falmouth first year students: Elle Glen, Emily Frost and Emma Brayford for their exceptional entries.
Links to the websites and blogs of Fashion Design students.
Articles about our Fashion Design and Performance Sportswear Design courses and students are available for you to download.
'A world of possibilities for fashion students' - Western Morning News, 7 August 2009 (5.82 MB)
What the industry is saying (247 KB)
What the press is saying (12.1 MB)
If you have any queries about the course please visit our HelpMe Forum
For further information about BA(Hons) Fashion Design at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 255763.
Our taster days are intended to give prospective applicants the chance to immerse themselves in their course of choice for a full day, working on a project with our staff and students. We run tours of all our facilities and accommodation, provide lunch, and really give guests a flavour of life at Falmouth.
For more information, please email: tasterdays@falmouth.ac.uk
At our first Open Design event in February 2010, Heads of Department and Pathway Leaders from Foundation level courses around the UK spent the day with design staff and students at University College Falmouth, learning more about our facilities and courses.
Click here for more information and to register for the next Open Design event
We anticipate that our graduates will go on to work in fashion houses as part of the design team, as freelance designers or establish their own clothing labels. However, to work in the fashion industry you have to be flexible, and the broad range of skills we will teach you will enable you to adapt to the fluid and volatile world of fashion.
A minimum of 220 UCAS points, equivalent Level 3 qualifications or relevant experience. You may be required to submit some work to help us decide who to interview. Successful applicants are generally those with the strongest portfolios, demonstrating experimentation, technical ability and understanding of the art and design process.
Please see our How to Apply page for more information.
For further information about BA(Hons) Fashion Design at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 255763.
We invite all applicants invited to interview. Small groups of applicants will be interviewed with their portfolios and sketchbooks by a panel consisting of two academic members of staff and two students. A department tour will follow the interview. The session will last approximately 3 hours.
Please bring portfolio/project work/sketch books to interview as well as a personal project that represents you. Your portfolio should demonstrate the ability to investigate ideas and use a range of media, skills in observational drawing, and any investigations into design methods and skills. The team will be mainly interested in your abilities in the field of design and design research, but other types of work can be included if it demonstrates capabilities and interest in fashion/performance sportswear design. Please do not bring actual garments, however photographs of made garments within portfolios are welcomed. Life drawing should be limited to two portfolio pages only.
Interviews will be held on 20 January, 24 and 29 February and 2 March 2012 only. Morning interviews will be at 9.30am and afternoon interviews will be at 1.30pm.
Location: Woodlane Campus
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