Fashion & Textiles
Right: Evie Daines, UCA Rochester
Cover: Leo Tsao, UCA Rochester
Fashion & Textiles
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Aaron Challis, UCA Epsom
Introduction
Our fashion and textiles courses at UCA will prepare you for a career in this fast-paced, dynamic industry. We have close links with a wealth of professional contacts, global fashion brands, companies and guest speakers, and students have highly rated the business and marketing connections on an international stage. We are steeped in tradition, but we also anticipate industry trends through exploring the latest technology and developing highly individual, skilled and creative practitioners. In our studios and workshops, you’ll be exposed to the latest technologies and state-of-the-art equipment such as a Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Gerber Suite, digital textile printing and industry standard photographic and multimedia suites. Alongside this, students still enjoy the traditional skills of creative pattern cutting, garment construction, drawing, illustration and silk screen printing. We have a range of courses that delve into different aspects of the fashion industry. On Fashion Management & Marketing you’ll learn
the importance of branding and commercial knowledge, while our Fashion Atelier course will teach you the traditional skills of draping, tailoring and sewing. You can learn how to take unusual, creative and eye-catching photos on our Fashion Photography degree, and by studying Fashion Journalism you’ll learn interviewing skills and captivating storytelling. We also have many other fashion and textiles courses for you to discover in this brochure. Our focus on creativity, skills, innovation and professionalism reaps rewards for UCA students in terms of employability, providing the next generation of fashion practitioners across a wide range of creative disciplines. 3
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BA (Hons) Fashion
BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier
UCA Epsom 3 and 4 year routes available
UCA Rochester
Leonie Harsant, UCA Epsom
Amy West, UCA Rochester
Our Fashion degree will prepare you for a career in the fashion industry, allowing you to build your business knowledge and establish your own design identity.
The only course of its kind, this unique and practical degree provides you with a deep understanding of the ‘atelier’.
In the first year, you’ll be introduced to a range of contemporary design practices used to stimulate creativity and innovation within the design process. Through the Visual Communication and Creative Cutting & Construction units, you’ll learn the practical skills which will underpin your ideas. The Introduction to Fashion History and Theory unit will establish the framework of thinking, to help you connect the theory and practical aspects of your work. In the second year, you’ll build on the both of these areas, learning the techniques of draping and designing in more detail. You’ll continue to build your knowledge of the culture of fashion and will apply your knowledge in the real world through a period of work experience. In the final year, you’ll demonstrate what you have learned in both theory and practice, through your final major project and your dissertation. Instagram: @ucaepsomfashion
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W230/E UCAS tariff points: 112
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In the first year, you’ll learn essential technical and creative practices in research and design communication, tackling specialist skills in draping, creative pattern cutting, production and finishing techniques. You’ll gain an appreciation of the broad range of atelier skills in the History & Theory unit, which complements your main studies. In the second year, you’ll build on these practical skills, developing your craft through a focus on bespoke tailoring, couture-inspired contemporary fashion, specialist fabric manipulation, ‘soft’ sewing and finishing techniques. Utilising our industry links, you’ll apply your knowledge in the real world through industry placement. In the third year, you’ll hone your creative and technical skills in the production of a professional portfolio and final collection, allowing you to showcase the breadth of your skills and express your individuality. You’ll present your work through a graduate show and exhibition, and submit a written thesis. Instagram: @ucafash_atelier
Duration: 4 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W236/E UCAS tariff points: 64
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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W237/R UCAS tariff points: 112
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BA (Hons) Fashion Design
BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism
UCA Rochester 3 and 4 year routes available
UCA Epsom
Sushila Pun, UCA Rochester
Luke Smith, UCA Epsom
Our award-winning Fashion Design course has built an international reputation for producing professional, highly talented and skilled design graduates.
This course’s unique philosophy revolves around the idea of the voice – training and finding your voice in Year 1 through the Fashion Vocabulary and Fashion Media & Industry units.
In the first year, you’ll learn about the fashion market through the A Cut Above and Capturing the Market units, while developing practical skills in the Tools of the Trade unit – such as drawing and the importance of the sketchbook.
You’ll continue developing and widening that voice in Year 2 through investigative journalism techniques to working collaboratively on the Fashion Publishing unit and the opportunity to develop and demonstrate your skills in the real world through industry placement.
You’ll also begin to study the context of fashion history in the first year, developing this more in the second year alongside more practical units – Creative Identity will enable you to experiment and look for your own style within your designs, and Cut to Suit will give you the opportunity to apply those skills in a practical way. Finally, in Year 3, you’ll create and exhibit your final collection, demonstrating your own unique style and your understanding of the subject, underpinned by the contextual knowledge you will have used to write your dissertation.
In Year 3, you’ll be able to express and promote your voice’s unique attributes through the Innovation unit and your final major project, demonstrating an understanding of Fashion Journalism, a use of firsthand sources and design elements, alongside your dissertation. Instagram: @ucafashionjournalism
Instagram: @fashiondesignrochester
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W233/R UCAS tariff points: 112
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Duration: 4 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W238/R UCAS tariff points: 64
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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/WP25/E UCAS tariff points: 112
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BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Promotion
UCA Epsom
UCA Rochester 3 and 4 year routes available
Jamie Windust, UCA Epsom
Esha Nithin, UCA Rochester
The fashion industry is dynamic, competitive and important to the growth and development of the global economy. It needs graduates who can respond creatively and effectively to constantly evolving challenges and opportunities.
The Fashion Media & Promotion course gives you the knowledge and skills to become an innovative communicator and idea-generator for the fashion and creative industries.
This innovative, award-winning course has strong industry links and moves in tandem with a fastpaced fashion world, providing you with up-todate knowledge, transferable skills, and a high employability rate. In the first year, you’ll be introduced to fashion marketing as a whole, alongside branding, promotion, buying and merchandising as well as the basic principles of fashion management. In your second year, you’ll build on this knowledge, applying your understanding of fashion business in the real world through an industrial placement, and experimenting through the Visual Merchandising & Experiential Retailing unit. In your final year, you’ll apply the theoretical concepts and knowledge you have learned, while creating and presenting your final major project. Twitter: @fmmuca Instagram: @fmmuca
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/WN2N/E UCAS tariff points: 112
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BA (Hons) Fashion Management & Marketing
In the first year units such as Style: Past, Present and Future will give you the theoretical foundation to understanding fashion communication. Following this, the Styling Identity, Fashion Publications and My Showcase units allow you to experiment further with different media, encouraging you to continue to develop your own ideas and to create your own work. In the second year, you’ll build upon these skills, developing practical and technical knowledge in relation to PR, social media and film, as well as applying your knowledge in the workplace through our extensive network of industry internship opportunities. In the final year, you’ll be ready to showcase your understanding of fashion media and promotion through a live industry project which leads on to your Final Major Project and graduating portfolio. Instagram: @fmprochester
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W226/R UCAS tariff points: 112
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Duration: 4 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W227/R UCAS tariff points: 64
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BA (Hons) Fashion Photography
BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion & Imaging
UCA Rochester
UCA Epsom
Tommaso Montino, UCA Rochester
Michelle Connop, UCA Epsom
This course will ignite your passion for fashion photography, encouraging independent learning and approaches that are both experimental and savvy to the working of the industry.
Our Fashion Promotion & Imaging course combines essential practical and experiential skills to launch you into your creative career.
On the first year of the course, you’ll be introduced to the technical equipment available to you, including the cameras, workshops and studios. Alongside this, you’ll begin to explore the concept of the image in the context of fashion through units like Styling Identity and Image Making. In the second year, you’ll build on the contextual and practical knowledge you have learned so far through the Storytelling and Fashion Film units, giving you the opportunity to experiment with your work. In your final year, you’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate your style and your understanding of fashion and creativity through your final major projects, accompanied by your thesis.
In the first year, you’ll learn the foundations of promotion and imaging through the Fashion Styling & Photography and Fashion Visual Communication units, introducing you to the different pathways available and providing you with practical skills and workshops. You’ll develop a contextual understanding of fashion which you’ll build upon in your second year through the theory unit as you choose your specialist pathway. In this year, you will be able to experiment with your ideas while honing in on your specialism, applying your knowledge in the real world through the industrial placement unit. In the final year, you’ll be able to showcase your understanding of fashion promotion and imaging through your final major project, demonstrating a combination of technical skills and critical thinking. Instagram: @fpiepsom
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W645/R UCAS tariff points: 112
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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/WN65/E UCAS tariff points: 112
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BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art
UCA Rochester
Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace
Lauren McArthur, UCA Rochester
Elena Thornton, Royal School of Needlework
Based in an open studio environment with your own personal space, our innovative course offers you the freedom to explore print through a wide range of design-led projects.
This world-renowned course is delivered by the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) in dedicated studios at Hampton Court Palace.
In the first year, you’ll be introduced to printed textile design for fashion and interiors, as well as visual studies, drawing and illustration. You’ll begin to learn the foundations of textile design through practical knowledge, screen printing, digital printing, production of printed garment and printed product samples and cultural studies. The second year will build upon the ideas generated your first year, teaching you more complex making and creating skills, giving you the opportunity to experiment with your ideas and materials and underpinning this with contextual studies. There is a distinct industry focus in Year 2 of the course with a live industry project and also a placement. In the third year, you’ll create your final major project, demonstrating your understanding of textiles, your experience in working with print and fabric, and your own original ideas informed by the cultural history of fashion. Instagram: @ucatextileprint
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W231/R UCAS tariff points: 112
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BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles
In your first year, you’ll undertake a variety of projects to introduce you to the craft of hand embroidery from the traditional skills through to more experimental approaches. You’ll be encouraged to develop your own visual language as a foundation to understanding the context for the subject. You’ll continue to develop your practice in the second year, advancing your technical skills and deepening your understanding of the discipline. You’ll have the opportunity to develop a personal response to live or simulated projects within the areas of fashion, interiors and textile art. In the final year, you’ll have the opportunity to critically examine and advance your practice with your dissertation, aligning directly with your practice as preparation for your future career. Your Major Project should be original, ambitious, and challenging, using concepts and techniques at the forefront of your discipline. Finally, you’ll present a resolved and professionally prepared outcome within a public exhibition. Twitter: @royalschool Instagram: @rsndegree
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W740/N UCAS tariff points: 112
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BA (Hons) Make-up and Hair Design*
BA (Hons) Textile Design
UCA Rochester
UCA Farnham
Lauren Barrett, UCA Rochester
Ellen Savage, UCA Farnham
As a student on the course, you’ll learn about this particular area of the fashion industry, where a make-up artist and hair designer fits within it and how the make-up/hair artist collaborates with a stylist, art director, fashion designer, catwalk producer, fashion director, photographer and filmmaker. Alongside this, you’ll learn the technical knowledge and skills involved in the practice.
On the course, you’ll explore creating textiles for a wide range of contexts, developing a range of creative opportunities within your body of work in a professional portfolio that reflects your future aspirations.
You’ll continue to build on these foundations and in the second year you’ll have the opportunity to explore your ideas further through industry placement, applying your knowledge and learning more about the real world of make-up and hair design. In your final year, you’ll present your major project, drawing on the technical, practical and contextual knowledge you have learned throughout the course and presenting your ideas in a creative way. This course will give you creative skills, knowledge and passion needed to become an innovative practitioner, together with a broader academic understanding of the theories of culture and identity. You’ll graduate with an individual signature style and a rich portfolio of work. *Course subject to validation.
Creative conversations will develop by rubbing shoulders with peers in dedicated studios, with personal space for each student. You’ll learn how to research, develop concepts and master specialist techniques in both print and weave, fusing traditional processes with current material practice. You’ll work in studios equipped with high-quality print and weave equipment, including specialist dyeing labs and textile finishing areas, where you can fully experiment. In preparation for your future career you will work on industry projects, competitions, and exhibitions as well as undertaking a work placement in the UK or abroad, with the option of an international year at one of our partner institutes. You’ll be tutored by academics enthusiastic about textiles, who have exhibited internationally, produced commissioned work for the creative industries and are highly experienced in the areas of textile art, crafts, design, fashion and interiors. Instagram: @ucatextiles
Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W452/R UCAS tariff points: 112
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Duration: 3 years full-time UCAS code: C93/W234/F UCAS tariff points: 112
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Rachel Simpson, UCA Rochester
Your career
There are more than 550,000 people directly employed in the fashion industry in the UK¹, which is home to some of the world’s most iconic brands. The UK’s creative industries as a whole are worth £92 billion to the economy every year² and are growing at four times the rate of the UK workforce³, supporting new jobs and providing graduates with a huge range of opportunities.
Our alumni have been offered a variety of positions, including: –– Senior designers
Today you can explore a diverse range of fashion careers in areas such as the production, design and tailoring of garments through to the marketing and global distribution of designer handbags, accessories and much more.
–– Brand managers
UCA has a proud tradition of supporting students and equipping them with everything they need to thrive in the workplace. 96.9% of our students find employment or go on to further study within the first six months after graduating. The world is undergoing a technological revolution that is changing the face of online retail, making fashion even more accessible to global markets – this means launching independent fashion labels that reach large international audiences is more achievable than ever. Whether you want to develop your own clothing line or work at a top fashion house, our degree courses help you develop the skills and connect you to the industry. Our industry connections include top designers such as Alexander McQueen, Ted Baker, Paul Smith and Vivienne Westwood, well-known publications like Elle, Dazed and Confused, Vogue and FHM and major high-street brands including ASOS, Burberry, Topshop/Topman and River Island, to name a few. 12
–– Studio managers –– Design directors –– PR coordinators –– Fashion editors –– Tailors –– Showroom managers and many others. Our graduates have had their collections featured at major industry events all over the world, including Paris, New York and London Fashion Weeks. UCA students have also gone on to become art educators, textile designers, stylists and gallery directors, working with brands such as Debenhams, The British Fashion Council, Monsoon, Jimmy Choo and French Connection. ¹Source: fashionunited.uk/uk-fashion-industry-statistics ² Source: DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2016: Gross Value Added, Gov.uk ³ Source: thecreativeindustries.co.uk/uk-creative-overview/ facts-and-figures
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Portfolio advice What is a portfolio? A portfolio is a collection of your work that demonstrates your range of skills and creative talent. It’s your opportunity to showcase your individuality, creativity, inspirations and artistic abilities, and a useful way for us to evaluate your suitability for the course you’ve applied to. It might contain design work, drawings, art projects, photographs, films, sound work, music composition, or examples of creative writing or essays. Think of your portfolio as a statement about your work – it should exhibit your creative journey, thought processes and influences. Don’t be afraid to be bold and appeal to a viewer, keeping their attention and leaving them feeling excited about your creative potential.
What should my portfolio include? Your portfolio should feature examples of your research and show the development of your ideas and projects – this should be highly presentable and well organised. It may be useful to arrange your work into themes, styles or chronological order, demonstrating good organisational skills and your own artistic awareness. Make sure you show your passion for the subject – look into your favourite designers, brands and labels, research other things they might have worked on, the materials and methods they used. Share with us some of your own ideas and creations, and demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of fashion. Your portfolio should exhibit your creative journey, thinking processes and individual personality, so we can assess your potential. It’s important to show both your inspirations and aspirations, as your portfolio says a lot about you and your creative identity. Documenting the development of your ideas in a sketchbook is a great way to show us how you approached the task of creating your work, giving us insight into your creative thinking and how you approach your subject. Make sure your portfolio is well presented. Our tutors only have a short amount of time to look through each portfolio, so you need to organise your work intelligently. We recommend that you include between 10 and 25 pieces of work, neatly mounted on white or off-white paper in either landscape or portrait format (not a mixture of both).
Find out more The course pages at uca.ac.uk provide clear guidance on what we’d like to see in your portfolio for each of our courses. We’ve also put together a set of videos talking you through the process: uca.ac.uk/study/portfolio-advice 14
Put some of your most attention-grabbing and interesting work at the front and lead us through your journey, showcasing a variety of skills, materials, techniques and influences – it could include paintings, drawings, photography, digital pieces, storyboards, animation images or written work. If you include moving image work, we recommend a maximum of two minutes’ running time. Highlight your favourite pieces too, and indicate what or who inspires you.
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Callum Smith, UCA Rochester
“ Starting the Fashion Atelier course was one of the best decisions I’ve made so far in life. You learn most of the skills that Fashion Design courses teach, such as illustration, CAD, design and development, but with the added bonus of technician-led workshops that enable us to fully understand how certain garments come to be. “ It’s a very production-based course, which I loved because it meant I was always busy and there was always something new to be learned in terms of overcoming pattern drafting difficulties or learning a new sewing technique. And after spending seven hours straight in the sewing room on a tailored sleeve, I have become conscious of the ethical side of fashion, regarding quality and fair conditions for workers in particular.”
Bryony Selway BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier, UCA Rochester Graduated 2017 Freelance Pattern Cutter and Seamstress Graduate collection selected to show at Graduate Fashion Week 2017, finalist for FADxMISSONI 2017, graduate collection featured on Vogue Online
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Karla Hobbs, UCA Rochester
“ I studied Fashion Design because it allowed me to show my creativity in many ways. I enjoyed everything on the course – no day was the same. It was always busy and you were active all the time from pattern cutting to draping on the stand, sketching and illustrating to then sewing the final garments. “ The facilities at the university are great, too. A big library to help for essays and research, a small fabric shop near our pattern cutting rooms which was extremely helpful, plenty of studio space, a large sewing room and the GERBER, a computer-generated pattern cutting system that many universities don’t offer. “ The staff were great too, they’re always there if you need guidance. We had plenty of tutorials for the development of your collection/projects.”
Lauren Pullen BA (Hons) Fashion Design, UCA Rochester Graduated 2015 Design Assistant for TopShop
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Elina Paunimo, UCA Rochester
“ I chose to come to UCA because of its contemporary approach to nurturing creative talent. It celebrates diversity and thinking innovatively, offering a solid foundation of support and direction. “ I’ve always been interested in fashion and working in such a fast-paced, creative industry. At first, I thought the only way to immerse myself in it was to become a fashion designer, but I quickly realised that I was more fascinated by the visual outcomes and the relationship between dress and mankind. “ I enjoy every single aspect of my course, it’s what drives my enthusiasm. Everything is a challenge, but it all gives me insight to my dream career.”
Cynthia Darman BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Promotion, UCA Rochester Year 2
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Laura Baverstock BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art, Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace Graduated 2016
“ When I graduated at just 24, I was the youngest person to have been admitted as a Trade Freeman to the Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers in the company’s over 300year history! Since then, I have been extremely busy, working as Costume Embroiderer for several films. “ Following graduation, I worked for Fox Productions on Murder on the Orient Express, working on a dress for actress Dame Judi Dench, who played Princess Natalia Dragomiroff. “ In 2017, I worked for five months with Working Title Productions on the dress of actress Margot Robbie, who will play Queen Elizabeth I in Mary, Queen of Scots (to be released in November 2018). I spent many hours embroidering the dress with tiny sequins and mythical animal motifs. “ During my studies, I worked on several exciting projects: an embroidered ‘Whitewalker’ for HBO Game of Thrones; an evening gown for Nicholas Oakwell Couture for the GREAT Britain Campaign, which showcases the best of British industry around the world; A/W 2015/16 menswear collection for E.Tautz, owned by Patrick Grant of The Great British Sewing Bee. “ A ll of these opportunities throughout my studies and during my career since I graduated, have been thanks to my expert skills in hand embroidery learnt at the Royal School of Needlework and the industry opportunities offered to me whilst there. I would never have had so many doors opened to me in industry had I been on another course, and I’m looking forward to many more!” 21
Course leaders
Neil Bottle
Dal Chodha
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion & Imaging
— UCA Rochester Neil Bottle is an academic, researcher and designer with over 25 years’ experience in the fashion textiles industry. He wrote, validated and set up the BA Fashion Textiles and MA Printed Textiles for Fashion & Interiors courses at UCA Rochester. Neil’s work has been included in The Permanent Collection of Textiles at the V&A, the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York and the Crafts Council Permanent Collection. He has designed ranges for Fortnum & Mason, Harrods, John Lewis, Brown’s, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Joyce Stores, Stuart Weitzman and Liberty, as well as bespoke collections for Shakespeare’s Globe, The Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Opera House, The British Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Neil’s work is currently represented by a range of selected galleries in London, the UK and the USA.
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— UCA Epsom Dal Chodha is Course Leader for BA Fashion Promotion & Imaging at UCA Epsom. A Londonbased writer, Dal is editor of non-seasonal fashion journal, Archivist. He contributes to various international titles including ModernMatter, AnOther and Wallpaper* for which he reports on the menswear shows twice a year. A consultant to several luxury brands, Dal’s clients include Burberry, MARTIOTESTINO+, Kenzo, Paul Smith and Sunspel. He was contributing editor to PATTERNITY: A New Way of Seeing, published by Conran Octopus (2015).
Bruce Montgomery
Chip Harris
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier
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UCA Epsom
UCA Rochester
Bruce is both an academic and designer, having designed and presented collections for the British luxury brand DAKS on the catwalk at Milan Menswear Fashion Week.
With over 20 years’ experience in the sector, Chip has extensive knowledge of fashion education and the specific creative and technical roles within the fashion industry. He has written and managed a range of courses, including award-winning fashion programmes, and has also set up and managed successful programmes in both India and the Middle East, giving him a good understanding of the dynamics involved in international design education.
Prior to DAKS, Bruce worked for Katherine Hamnett, Soprani, Moschino and Onward Kashiyama and his work has been featured in the international fashion press such as Drapers, GQ, Vogue, Nile Magazine in Japan, and Crash in France. Bruce has taught and led undergraduate and postgraduate fashion courses and supervised at PhD level. His published work includes book chapters on fashion sustainability for the Springer book series. Bruce has extensive knowledge of fashion design, global manufacturing and the garment supply chain - he is on the advisory board of the UK Meet the Manufacturer trade fair and has been Chairman of the British Menswear Guild committee. He has also acted as chairman of a mentoring panel for Graduate Fashion Week and has spoken at industry events in Guangzhou China Paris, Sri Lanka and Tokyo.
As well as his academic experience in specialist institutions, Chip has also enjoyed considerable professional success as a multi-product designer for many leading UK and international brands. He brings his experience in managing design teams and working closely with technical divisions, buyers and merchandisers to our Fashion Atelier course. Chip is a passionate fashion educator and designer, and is committed to his ongoing development. He is actively involved in his own practice-based research, which concerns interrogating identities and linking shared meaning and rhetoric between Western and non-Western clothing ideologies.
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Donna Ives
Mark O’Connor
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Design
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism
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UCA Rochester
UCA Epsom
Donna plays a leading role at UCA, creating strong international industry links, ensuring a healthy work placement provision, exciting live projects and excellent career prospects for the students on the course.
Mark leads our BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism course.
This has resulted in a range of placement opportunities with companies such as Jenny Packham, Rick Owens and Antonio Berardi, and collaborative industry projects with highprofile companies such as Reiss, Tommy Hilfiger, Warehouse and ASOS. Donna studied BA Fashion Design at Manchester School of Art, and practised as a designer with a focus on womenswear and lingerie design for companies including BodyMap, Courtaulds, Nigel French and Design Intelligence. With over 20 years of teaching experience, Donna has contributed to the development of courses for the School of Fashion, including UCA courses launched in India. She has a postgraduate teaching qualification, is a Fellow of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and a member of the British Fashion Council Colleges Forum, and has worked with the BBC.
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A graduate of the University of Northumbria, Mark started his career styling innovative window campaigns for Selfridges before embarking on a profession in menswear fashion journalism as Deputy Fashion Editor for FHM Magazine. Following this Mark moved to be Fashion Director at The Daily Express and Sunday Express magazine, where he built up a newspaper fashion team of writers and stylists. Mark has contributed to titles such as Sleaze Nation, The Guardian, Health and Fitness magazine and has styled fashion advertising campaigns for M&S, River Island, Orange, Topman, Nike and Pretty Green. Mark runs his own online men’s interest magazine, marksmanstyle.com.
Course leaders
Charlotte Rutter
Francis Summers
Course Leader (interim) for BA (Hons) Fashion Management & Marketing
Acting Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Photography
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UCA Epsom
UCA Rochester
With over a decade lecturing in BA (Hons) Fashion Management & Marketing (FMM) and as a cofounder of a successful fashion company, Charlotte has a wealth of experience to share through both an academic and professional lens. As Senior Lecturer at UCA, she has developed innovative and industryrelevant course content, making UCA’s FMM course one of the best in the country.
Francis is an artist and writer whose research addresses enjoyment and appropriation in fine art, found-footage film, video-making and digital culture. In collaborative artworks with Louisa Minkin and Ian Dawson, his themes of research have included online griefing strategies, critique in gaming communities, 3D imaging technology as creative documentation and the double-edged role of the artist within processes of gentrification.
Charlotte is passionate about developing research in the areas of FMM, business management, sustainability, ethics and consumer psychology – she has authored papers for publication and is a regular speaker at academic conferences. She has collaborated with fellow academics and colleagues to design, write and deliver short courses and chapter content on specialised topic areas and is Deputy Chair on the Fashion Marketing & Consumption SIG. Charlotte also works with companies in a consulting capacity to provide advisory and sounding board services through to full branding, marketing and business strategies.
In his work across the fashion photography and photography departments at UCA, Francis focuses on following the consequences of thinking about photography as a technology that is used differently across a number of social practices rather than it being a coherent monolithic discourse. Some of his recent publications include ‘What a Body Can Do: From the Frenzy of the Communicative to the Visual Bond’, book chapter in Photography Reframed by Benjamin Burbridge & Annebella Pollen; ‘Pictures Not Homes’ (with Ian Dawson and Louisa Minkin), as part of Gestures of Resistance, Centre Romantso, Athens, 2017; and ‘How to Accommodate Grief in Your Life’ (with Louisa Minkin), Philosophy of Photography, 2016.
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Sharon Ting
Sheelagh Wright
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Textile Design
Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Promotion
— UCA Farnham Sharon Ting leads the Textile Design course at our Farnham campus. Sharon brings her expertise as a maker of fashion accessories, commissions for public art and large-scale textiles for interiors to the role. Sharon is originally a graduate of one of our founder colleges, the West Surrey College of Art & Design, and a graduate from the Royal College of Art. On graduating from the RCA, she set up a studio and workshop in Bloomsbury, London and has over 20 years’ experience as a designer-maker. She has also taught widely across many higher education institutions across the UK. She has exhibited nationally and internationally through galleries and trade shows, such as 100% Design and London Designers Exhibition at London Fashion Week and has retailed through Takashimaya NY, Liberty London and Selfridges. Sharon believes in developing a forward-thinking community of individual textile designers, entrepreneurial artists and makers. Creating enthusiastic ‘Texstylers’ driven by aesthetic vision, strong technical skills and an aspirational approach, ultimately creating textiles that appeals to all our senses. Linkedin.com/in/Sharon-ting-a3b737127 26
— UCA Rochester Before joining UCA, Sheelagh forged a successful career in the fashion industry as a designer pattern cutter, working for a number of high profile companies and labels and assisting designer Victor Edelstein for DIOR, Salvador and BIBA. She has led numerous fashion undergraduate courses at UCA. Her research interests focus around teaching and learning – she has presented papers nationally and internationally, although her main interest lies with charities. Since 2007, Sheelagh has worked with UK-based charity, HOPEHIV. As Project Director for the Gateway School of Fashion, she set up a fashion school in South Africa, involving fundraising, establishing networks, curriculum development, recruitment and training of staff, project management and evaluation. After 10 years, the Gateway School of Fashion has successfully trained hundreds of students to earn a living from selling their garments, enabling them to provide for themselves and their families. This Gateway School of Fashion project was professionally recognised by receiving the 2009 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.
Course leaders
Angie Wyman Course Leader for BA (Hons) Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textilte Art — Royal School of Needlework Angie Wyman leads our Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art course at the Royal School of Needlework. Working specifically within embroidery for fashion, craft and design, Angie has more than 25 years’ experience of working within embroidery and the applied arts at degree and masters level. Angie is both practitioner and academic, with a career-long commitment to the promotion and continued practice of embroidery. She has exhibited works internationally, with pieces held in both public and private collections. Angie has developed and managed a number of prestigious international textile projects and developed collaborative partnerships with the Australian National University, Canberra and Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland, culminating in country-specific exhibitions, workshops and conferences. Angie completed a successful residency at the Australian National University in 2012. Angie is a Mentor for Finalists of the international Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery and has served as a Panel Judge for the Embroiderers’ Guild Scholar Award and Schools National Fashion Competition. 27
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Lucy Driver, UCA Farnham
“ I chose to come to UCA because I felt the course was the best for me. It allowed me to learn about the marketing side of the fashion industry yet still be creative throughout my three years. “ I chose to study Fashion Promotion & Imaging as it’s still really creative; I love the fashion industry as every day can be different, no two days are the same. “ One of my favourite things was the people, all my friends are incredible and so talented. Everyone you work with is amazing in their own individual way, it’s so very refreshing. “ The academics on our course were incredible, too. Everyone is still working in the industry as well as teaching. Our tutor for our dissertations was incredible, she knew so much about all of our individual topics.”
Mollie Palmby BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion & Imaging, UCA Epsom Graduated 2017 Ecommerce and Marketing Assistant at Asprey
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Our facilities
Epsom
Rochester
UCA Epsom is renowned as a major centre for fashion, fashion journalism and graphic design. Our facilities provide students with the right ingredients for successful study including modern IT facilities, an Equipment Hire Department, inspiring teaching areas, gallery space, a library, supportive teaching staff and a programme of guest speakers.
As well as specialist studios, equipment and software, UCA Rochester boasts a wide range of industry-standard facilities including state-of-theart fashion technology.
Fashion facilities include: –– Extensive fashion studios with sewing facilities –– Dedicated technicians and technical tutors –– I T suites with Macs and PCs loaded with industry-standard software –– F ive fully-equipped photographic studios with digital processing and finishing facilities and full industry-standard lighting rigs –– Specialist industrial machinery –– Laser cutter and desktop 3D printer.
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Fashion resources include: –– Access to photography studios –– C omputer-Aided Design (CAD) facilities for portfolio development –– Dedicated technicians and technical tutors –– Extensive design, pattern and production studios –– G erber suite, a Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) facility –– Laser cutting and rapid prototyping facilities –– S tate-of-the-art fashion textiles digital printing resources –– U nique Fashion Atelier design studios and workshops.
Farnham UCA Farnham has extensive purpose-built facilities for over 2,000 students studying a wide range of creative arts subject areas including film, animation, graphics, illustration, fine art, photography, textiles, journalism and advertising.
Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace
Textiles resources include: –– A significant range of digital and tradition looms for woven textiles and associated dye facilities
As a student at the Royal School of Needlework, you’ll be taught traditional needlework skills in hand embroidery.
–– L arge provision for printed textiles including print tables, screen preparation and wash off area, dye mixing facilities and steam room
You’ll have access to: –– Dedicated computer suites
–– I T suites that are fully equipped with both PCs and Macs and access to textile design software such as Weave Point and Weave Maker
–– Technical equipment.
–– Laser cutting, rapid prototyping and 3D Printing –– A n extensive video and photography equipment store –– Photography studios and darkrooms
–– Study spaces
In addition, there’s a unique collection of embroidered pieces and archives, which are available for tutor-led study, as well as a studentaccessible handling collection.
–– Scanning and printing facilities.
Please note, access to each campus and its resources can sometimes depend on the campus you choose to study at. For example, you may be using the facilities at the campus where your course is based but not always at others – this depends on your course.
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“ I started university with little, if any, knowledge of how to use Adobe programmes. I hadn’t done a media course at school or college unlike some of the other students, so it was a completely new software to me. Although we did have a few lessons in how to use Photoshop and Premiere Pro, it was really about finding the confidence and having the patience to continue practicing at home. Having free use of programmes such as Lynda and workshops at the library really helped me to find my way. I also realised that I have a good eye for visual aesthetics and have great leadership/people skills to help steer a group towards the end goal and common vision. “ The course was a great experience for me to expand on my creative skills, some that I’ve built on and others that I’ve developed purely whilst I was there! The course certainly pushes you to try new ideas and experiment, something that I used to be quite hesitant to do. You should be as creative as possible in the first two years, that is the time to push boundaries and see what works and what doesn’t. “ As a person, I think I developed massively while I was on the course. I realised that I’m actually a great leader and I should be more confident in myself!”
Heather Ibberson BA (Hons) Fashion Journalism, UCA Epsom Graduated 2017 Freelance writer for Geist, FAULT and Elite magazine
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Elisabeth Nilsson, UCA Epsom
Next steps
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