Fashion Design, BA (Hons)

This Fashion Design degree equips students to drive sustainability in the industry by integrating environmental, ethical, and moral considerations into creative practices. You'll develop skills in pattern cutting, construction, and digital tools like CLO3D, while exploring real-world challenges through projects that emphasize circularity and responsible design. Access to specialized resources, such as industrial machines and a natural dye garden, supports collaboration with experts and industry briefs, fostering innovative collections aligned with global sustainability goals.The program spans three years, building from foundational skills in research, design, and sustainable solutions to advanced industry knowledge and professional practice. Key modules include Cut and Construct, Industry Practice, and Collection, culminating in a graduate portfolio and dissertation. Assessment is fully coursework-based, focusing on studio projects, garments, and written assignments, ensuring graduates emerge as confident, innovative designers ready for impactful careers.

Throughout this Fashion Design degree, you’ll learn to create original and inspiring fashion proposals underpinned by a specialist knowledge of sustainable fashion practices. While developing an understanding of your responsibility as a fashion designer, you’ll gain advanced skills in research, analysis, translation, drawing, pattern cutting and construction. Working with professional facilities, you’ll also be encouraged to take risks as you experiment with new and emerging technologies and processes. Year one Through design and practical projects, you’ll build an awareness of the fashion industry’s social and environmental impact and seek innovative and sustainable solutions. Through tutorials and workshops, you’ll develop core skills in research, design development, drawing, pattern cutting and construction – utilising professionally equipped studios to create original works. Modules Cut and Construct Redesign Belonging Histories Colour and shape Year two The second year focuses on industry knowledge, responding to global challenges and exploring how digital and traditional fashion practices can invoke positive change. By investigating brands and sustainable business models, you’ll continue to build on your creative design skills and start to align with sustainable practices. Modules Industry Practice Core skills: Digital Core skills: Stretch Collaboration Innovation Theories Year three In the final year of your Fashion Design degree, you'll develop a graduate collection by intensively researching, developing and exploring 2D and 3D concepts. Your collection will be underpinned by a consideration of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and supported by a dissertation. With sights set firmly on launching your career, you’ll also produce a professional portfolio and lookbook and have the opportunity to participate in live competition briefs set by professional fashion organisations, such as the British Fashion Council and the Graduate Fashion Foundation. Modules Pre-Collection Investigations Collection Professional Strategies As part of our process of continuous improvement, we routinely review course content to ensure that all our students benefit from a high-quality and rewarding academic experience. As such, there may be some changes made to your course which are not immediately reflected in the content displayed on our website. Any students affected will be informed of any changes made directly.