Create original, responsible and inspiring fashion, making your unique footprint on the industry. On this innovative fashion design course, you’ll work in a supportive studio environment with experienced professionals who’ll nurture your growth towards becoming a future-facing designer.

You’ll hone your creative edge to cultivate your own design perspective. Working on both simulated and live briefs, you’ll learn how to effectively articulate your ideas. By challenging the status quo, you’ll develop innovative fashion concepts to remain at the forefront of an ever-changing global industry.

You will:

• Raise your awareness through learning that’s driven by the environmental, ethical and moral challenges of our time.
• Take your place at the forefront of the industry, with access to resources from industrial, specialist sewing and knit machines, screen printing and a natural dye garden, to ultrasonic welding machines.
• Learn to use the latest digital design technologies, including CLO 3D.
• Thrive by working together on collaborative, challenge-based projects.
• Work on live briefs with leading brands like Fred Perry, Lou Dalton, O'Neill and New York-based Ryan Roche.
• Share a common first year with Sportswear Design students, where you'll select a specialist pathway as you move into your second year.

What you'll learn

Reflecting professional life from day one, this practical fashion degree teaches technical and creative design skills across womenswear and menswear – helping you stand out in the industry as you create original, responsible and inspiring fashion proposals. You'll gain a working knowledge of core fashion design skills such as research, analysis, translation, drawing, pattern cutting and construction, as well as innovation skills like risk-taking and experimenting with new technologies like CLO3D and ultrasonic construction techniques.

How you'll learn

Working with our team of highly experienced academic and technical teams, you will collaborate with colleagues and students from different courses, learn from industry guest lecturers, take on live projects with brands and develop your own practice to an industry standard. Regular learning comes through tutorials, both one-to-one and in groups, lectures, seminars, workshops and technical demonstrations.