Fashion Styling & Art Direction, BA (Hons)

Shape the future of fashion through this dynamic styling and art direction program. In our innovative studios, you'll collaborate with creative peers to curate compelling fashion narratives for catwalks, editorials, window displays, films, and digital spaces. Guided by expert lecturers, you'll build essential skills in garment fitting, editorial direction, and advertising campaigns, preparing for a global career. Develop confidence as a visionary storyteller, master practical techniques for professional styling, engage in discussions on fashion's ethical contexts, and tackle industry briefs to create a standout portfolio. Access top facilities like industrial sewing machines and a textile archive.Throughout the degree, modules progress from foundational skills in Year One—covering Fashion Foundations, Belonging, Storytelling, Body Politics, and Earth Action—to advanced practice in Year Two with The Fashion Space, Show, Client, and Collaboration. Year Three focuses on professional launch through The Fashion Consultant, Breaking Ground, Fashion Visionary, and Future Skills. Assessments include practical projects, presentations, portfolios, and critical writing, ensuring a comprehensive, industry-ready education.

Throughout this degree, you'll learn how to construct powerful fashion stories in real-life visual merchandising environments and fashion shows, as well as immersive 3D digital spaces. You'll become proficient in styling and directing for magazine editorials and advertising campaigns, master garment fitting and construction for runway and celebrity client dressing, and consider the environmental and ethical considerations of the industry. Year One: In year one of this degree, you'll take your first steps to becoming a progressive, conscious, professional and courageous practitioner within fashion styling and art direction. You'll start to develop your technical skills, gain an understanding of the varied specialisms within the disciplines and explore storytelling, sustainability, identity and body politics Modules: Fashion Foundations Fashion & Belonging Thinking & Storytelling Body Politics Earth Action Year Two: In your second year of the Fashion Styling & Art Direction degree, you'll begin to acquire a tenacious, resilient and visionary set of skills for professional practice. You'll take on real-world briefs guided by icons of industry and embrace new technologies and advanced digital processes. Modules: The Fashion Space The Fashion Show The Fashion Client Collaboration Year Three: The final year consolidates your ground-breaking creative critical thinking, advanced technical skills and professional practice know-how. Modules will give you the leverage to launch yourself into industry as a visionary fashion stylist and art director. Modules: The Fashion Consultant Breaking Ground Fashion Visionary Future Skills 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.