You’ll learn professional production processes in weave, print and mixed media, and back this up with intensive conceptual research alongside cultural studies lectures, drawing sessions, and tutorials with peers and academic staff. Building on essential knowledge and skills, you’ll create your own design collection in a discipline of your choice.

Modules

Core Skills: Print
Core Skills: Weave
Core Skills: Mixed Media
Themes in Culture
Design and Make

Along with the help and insights of our industry partners, you’ll learn the realities of designing for business. We’ll explore marketing basics, different working techniques, trend forecasting, innovation, and your career opportunities. You can also take on self-directed national and international work placements with companies like Wallace Sewell, Liberty and Rebecca Taylor (New York).

Choosing a discipline to focus on for the rest of the course, you’ll create collections for national and international competitions, and briefs set by industry clients. You’ll then present your work to your clients in a real-life simulation of industry practice.

Modules

Targeted Design: Futures
Targeted Design: Client & Market
Production
Theories of Culture

Optional modules

External Engagement
Global Fashion

On top of completing your dissertation, you’ll write your own briefs, design original collections, and following industry-standard processes. You’ll also put together your professional portfolio and other self-promotion materials, and have the chance to take part in the New Designers exhibition in London.

Modules

Dissertation
Professional Portfolio: Business Focus
Professional Portfolio: Career Focus