BA (Hons) Fashion: Concepts & Communications Strand.
UCAS Code W221
Suzy Mason 0113 202 8000 suzy.mason@leeds-art.ac.uk
BA (Hons.) Fashion. Concepts & Concentration strand.
The BA (Hons) in Fashion allows students to specialise as they progress through the programme. Looking for a career in fashion, but not necessarily as a designer/ maker? This course could be for you. You’ll explore the full fashion journey (from concept to production, merchandising and communication), considering commercial aspects of successful fashion enterprise. You’ll work with other disciplines, including photography, film, graphic design and creative advertising. You’ll become a highly skilled communicator, ready to take advantage of a wide range of career opportunities including fashion design, PR styling, event management, video production, store design, visual merchandising and brand management.
Course validated by the Open University.
This programme places a heavy emphasis on innovation and communication using a wide range of new-media tools to develop you as a skilled practitioner. During the first year, you’ll learn in a self-contained studio equipped with PCs and Macs as well as garmentproduction facilities. In the other years you’ll develop a flexible approach to study by working in an open-plan contemporary studio space. You’ll work with computer-aided design and video-editing software as you explore a variety of fashion-related disciplines such as branding, store interiors, packaging, photo shoots and film-making. There will be an overseas study trip to a fashion destination during your studies. As part of the course, we’ll also prepare you for your first steps in graduate employment through a series of workshops covering techniques such as CV-writing and interview techniques. You’ll graduate as a confident and highly employable professional, equipped to work flexibly and skilfully across many different disciplines in the fashion industry.
Course Structure. Year One. You’ll develop your understanding of fashion trends, pattern-making, manufacture, and research skills. You’ll become familiar with CAD software, Photoshop and Illustrator and use them to create professional portfolio work.
Placements. You’ll be encouraged to undertake a placement in industry in the Easter vacation, possibly overseas. Recent students have worked at Alexander McQueen, ASOS, Bolongaro Trevor, Dazed & Confused, Full Circle, Harvey Nichols, ITV, Mudpie, Occhio del Riciclone, Vivienne Westwood and WGSN.
Year Two. You’ll develop innovative, conceptual approaches to designing and making products and garments and undertake a work placement in the fashion industry. Industry professionals will also come in and critique your work, offering an invaluable commercial perspective. You will research and express an idea via film or animation.
Year Three. You’ll develop your research into a final project, designing and promoting a collection of six products You’ll also manage and direct your own fashion event, producing accompanying videos, packaging and publicity, and you’ll produce a dissertation in book or magazine format.
Accolades.
Future Careers.
We encourage students to enter competitions; recently, students’ many prize-winning entries have been put into production and/or led to offers of employment and exposure on national TV.
Graduates have gone on to work in styling, event management, video production, fashion design or illustration, store design, visual merchandising and brand management.
Graduates have gone on to work as designers, makers, buyers, technicians, pattern-makers, and product designers. They may work for an organisation or set up their own business, or combine the two.
Winner of the Association Supplies of the British Clothing Industry Student Design Awards sponsored by Republic 2012. Finalists Hawes and Curtis Design competition 2011.
Future Careers.
Accolades.
Year Three. You’ll develop a major body of research, taking it right through to a final collection. You’ll produce a professional portfolio and a dissertation in book/ magazine format and produce and event manage your own fashion show.
Year Two. You’ll respond to an emerging issue , a competition or a live industry brief. You’ll research fashion design for prediction trends, involving visits to exhibitions and you’ll continue to experiment with creative tailoring/making. You will be encouraged to undertake a work placement within the fashion industry.
Course Structure. Year One. You’ll develop your understanding of fashion trends, pattern-making, manufacture, and research skills. You’ll become familiar with CAD software, Photoshop and Illustrator and use them to develop your professional portfolio presentation. You will also enter live competition and industry briefs.
Placements. You’ll be encouraged to undertake a work placement in industry in the Easter vacation, possibly overseas. Recent students have worked at Alexander McQueen (Paris), Marc Jacobs, Hussein Chalayan, Dorothy Perkins and Topshop.
The world of fashion is exciting, fast-paced and competitive— We’re based in one of the few remaining specialist art schools, so you’ll have many opportunities to expand your creative skills and to collaborate with other disciplines (such as graphic design and photography). You’ll research and track historical influences, renowned designers and contemporary trends while you explore your own interests and strengths and there is a work placement opportunity in Year 2, when you might seek work as a fashion assistant with a designer’s atelier or a high-street fashion brand. There will also be an overseas study trip to a fashion destination during your studies. We offer support with employability and enterprise skills. You’ll learn how the industry functions and we’ll help you find and negotiate placements and work. You’ll get support with skills for CVs and interviews, plus how to present a compelling portfolio. We encourage students with a broad range of skills and interests. We’re looking for high levels of motivation and a willingness to learn and grow.
UCAS Code W221
Suzy Mason 0113 202 8000 suzy.mason@leeds-art.ac.uk
BA (Hons.) Fashion. Design & Realisation strand.
The BA (Hons) in Fashion allows students to specialise as they progress through the programme. This intensive programme will develop your ability to transform creative 2D ideas into exciting fashion garments. You will learn traditional and creative approaches to design, visual research, illustration, tailoring and pattern making. You’ll have opportunities to gain experience designing for a variety of fashion genres, from sportswear to high-street and avant-garde, and to undertake work placements. Within the fashion industry you’ll engage with the entire fashion process, from the formation and expression of your initial ideas right through to your final collection, and you’ll emerge as a highly credible and accomplished designer/maker.
Course validated by the Open University.
BA (Hons) Fashion: Design & Realisation Strand.