IELTs 6.5 with minimum of 5.5 in each component
This course offers you a challenging and dynamic opportunity to develop the relevant skills and knowledge required to springboard you into the global fashion and related industries.
Through personalised and collaborative project work, you will learn to integrate research, design ideas, technology and theory to develop directional and contemporary fashion design concepts.
The curriculum reflects current industry practice and includes in-depth broad-ranging visual research / concept development, material awareness, design development, creative pattern cutting, garment manufacture, prototyping / product development, fashion drawing / illustration, visual communication, sustainability and future thinking.
You will present your final year work either on a catwalk or in a static exhibition at our Degree Show, Nottingham, and may be selected to exhibit at events such as Graduate Fashion Week.
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Year One
Curiosity: Creative Exploration and Research
Curiosity: Creative Development and Application for Fashion Design
Year Two
Directions: Industry and Context for Fashion Design
Directions: Innovation and Transition for Fashion Design
Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-Taking
Optional module
Material Stories
Buying, Merchandising and Product Fundamentals
Trend Forecasting
Publishing: Experimental Formats
Final year
Resolutions: Culture and Context
Resolutions: Practice and Context: Fashion Design
Our graduates go into a range of fashion-related roles across the world such as designers, product developers and buyers. Recent graduate destinations include:
ASOS
Abercrombie & Fitch
Burberry
Coach
George
H&M
Mulberry
Next
River Island
Roksanda
Topshop
Tom Ford
Victoria Beckham
Vivienne Westwood
Yohji Yamamoto.
Andra Nistor won the Young Ideas 50 Years in Fashion Illustration Competition in 2018, securing a £200 cash prize and two VIP tickets to their 50th Year Gala Ball.
2016 graduate, Anna Mancilla, made her mark at Lima Fashion Week in Peru in 2017, where she was awarded first runner-up in the 13th edition of the Young Creators to the World contest 2017.
Wilson Choi, who graduated in 2017, was announced the second runner-up of the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers’ Contest (YDC) 2017.
YouFirst – working with our Employability Team
Studying a creative degree in a large university has many benefits, none more so than having access to a large employability team.
Our friendly, experienced careers consultants will work closely with you at every stage of your career planning, providing personal support and advice you won't find in a book or on the internet. You can benefit from this at any time during your studies and up to three years after completing your course.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
