Your first year focuses on core skills, visualisation techniques, understanding and applying colour, surface manipulation, trends, 3D realisation of garments and outfits, pattern cutting, garment construction, and contextual studies. You will build on these skills in the second year, where your studio practice will focus on the working environment, with industry-sponsored briefs, live projects and competitions. You will learn about the principles of range building, manufacture, production and product development, which underpin all commercial design work. The exciting final year draws on everything you have learned. Based on your trend book and a solid business model, you will instigate studio practice on your own terms, negotiating your brief to create a preview and then a full collection of outfits, with supporting portfolios and rationale. Your studies will culminate in a self-directed professional strategies campaign that will launch you and your collection into your chosen area of the fashion industry.

You will have the potential to work across the industry for designer labels and high street retailers with the power to influence the latest styles and trends. To enhance your career opportunities, we place emphasis on creative and consumer market research, creative design, technological innovation and digital visualisation. For experience of this fast-paced industry, you can take extended professional work placements during an optional sandwich year, or study overseas through the Erasmus exchange programme.