The Fashion degrees positively encourage, endorse and delight in creativity and individuality. The joy of articulating our individual uniqueness and independence through fashion is paramount, together with the thrill of questioning and changing social and political attitudes.
The Foundation Degree in Fashion enable you to explore and experiment with personal design concepts whilst delivering a robust programme of supporting skills and techniques. Areas of focus include design skills, pattern cutting, garment production, CAD/CAM (computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing), marketing and business and relevant supporting IT skills.
Of prime importance is the development of an individual and independent creative identity, vital to a successful career in this challenging and diverse industry.
Continuous interaction with external and commercial interests, along with work-based and work-related learning gives you an ideal lead-in to employment, preparing you for the rigorous, competitive and diverse world of the fashion industry.
During the first year of the Foundation Degree in Fashion you will acquire a combination of skills acquisition and creative and contextual development with an emphasis on acquiring a well structured knowledge base.
During the second year of the Foundation Degree in Fashion you will consolidate, extend and deepen this knowledge base. You will be encouraged and supported to become more independent and autonomous as learners and with a greater degree of personal specialisation and professional awareness.
Throughout the fashion degree you will be able to participate in an environment where you are able to individually position your creative practice within discipline-related research and professional contexts.
This programme of study fosters and encourages the translation of research both conceptual and technological, as a vital element with in the creative process which unites the research, design and the technical application, of the creative process as one, each area informing and translating a conclusion, which can only be derived from an appreciation of in-depth inquiry.
Fasion students will have the opportunity to investigate appropriate vocational and professional areas for future progression and develop the ability to plan and pursue their own career pathway.
The foundation degree course aims to keep abreast of the ever changing fast moving fashion industry and produce graduates who are independent and equipped with a range of intellectual, imaginative and enquiring skills that are appropriate to ever increasing demands by the industry, for the need to turn fashion design into reality and celebrate all skills related to the industry as important.
Recent graduates have gone on to work as designers, garment technologists, stylists, pattern cutters, fashion retail managers, illustrators, fashion magazine editors and self-employed designers makers.
BA (Hons) Fashion >>
