Fashion MA
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This course challenges the boundaries of traditional fashion design and manufacture to ensure cutting-edge practice is balanced with commercial strategy .
Futures You will be equipped with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the international fashion and fashion marketing business , enabling you to integrate these skills into the creative design and making process .
The Course Fashion is a creative , project-based course that focuses on the dynamic between creativity , technology and business awareness . It develops the critical , technical and professional skills necessary to advance practice and stimulate innovation in the fashion industry . You will explore the boundaries of creative fashion design and develop your skills utilising a range of prototyping technologies . The course will challenge you to re-examine the underpinning methodologies and ways of working that characterise creative practice in fashion .
You will benefit from our unique postgraduate ethos of encouraging collaboration with other postgraduate practitioners to gain a multidisciplinary perspective . Throughout the course , you will develop new experimental approaches to fashion and / or textile design , strengthening your own practice and developing new skills . Final project outcomes range from traditional catwalk collections to installations , interactive experience , exhibitions , virtual design , products , promotional packages , magazines , videos or websites .
We encourage you to make final projects that integrate multidisciplinary perspectives , for instance , catwalk collections that involve installation or the development of fashion brand campaigns involving digital media and 3D film .
Unit 1 : Technology Issues In the Technology Issues unit you will have the opportunity to prototype ideas and engage with industry standard processes , techniques and technology relevant to Fashion .
Unit 2 : Research Process The Research Process unit will enable you to deepen your conceptual thinking and technical application through the development of your individual practice .
Unit 3 : Business and Innovation The business context of new technologies has transformed the relationships between traditional film , video and digital formats .
Unit 4 : Concept and Prototyping The Concept and Prototyping unit will develop your main concepts with reference to theoretical and business contexts .
Unit 5 : Major Project The Major Project unit represents the culmination of a student ’ s investigation and the final stage of the research strategy . This is a substantial piece of self-managed work that is underpinned by advanced practicebased methodologies and processes .
Duration 1 year full time / 2 years part time
Entry requirements see page 160 How to apply see page 162
Term starts September 2017