BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles

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LEVEL 1

Fashion Studio 1A: 20th Century Fashion
This module introduces you to a range of methods for generating and exploring design ideas for fashion and textile design. You will be introduced to key themes, silhouettes and designers from the 20th Century and learn how to research and reference art and design as a source for inspiration.

Fashion Techniques 1A: Basic Skills in Fashion 1
This module introduces you to the fundamental techniques for the realisation of your fashion ideas. You will be introduced to flat pattern drafting and cutting techniques, a range of sewing methods and garment construction techniques, basic properties of textiles and fabrics, and dyeing techniques.

Cultural and Contextual Studies 1: Modern Fashion History and Visual Culture
This module explores a range of causal factors that determines and influences key sartorial changes from historical, theoretical and socio-cultural perspectives within a chronological framework in modern fashion history. It introduces fashion from the 17th Century, with a focus on 20th Century fashion until the present.

Creative Industries and Opportunities 1: Creative Skills for the Fashion Entrepreneur
In this module, you will develop an overview of knowledge and understanding of the fashion industry; what the fashion product is, and how the fashion market operates. You will look at the roles the ever-changing technology and unpredictable fashion economies play, and how they affect the fashion product, fashion calendar, and production cycles.

Fashion Studio 1B: Ethnic Global Fashion Trends
This module expands your design knowledge and skills, and introduces you to conceptual idea generation, analysis and synthesis techniques within a problem-solving framework. Fashion Seminar shows you how global influences and ethnic trends can be used as inspiration to develop and inform your own design ideas for fashion.

Fashion Techniques 1B: Basic Skills in Fashion 2
In this module you will develop your skills in pattern cutting, sewing, sample making, material selection and production techniques through on-going practical work in class exercises and assignments.

LEVEL 2

Fashion Studio 2A: Gender in Fashion
This module expands your knowledge, understanding and practical application of creative methods required to realise your fashion design concepts. Looking at the topic of gender, you will engage in detailed research and analytical thinking to develop a range of fashion design proposals, targeted at a specific market sector within your chosen specialist pathway. Your research topic will focus on social constructions of gender, its cultural ideologies, and fashion semiotics to refine your conceptual research and development.

Fashion Techniques 2A: Intermediate skills in Fashion 1
This module expands and refines your knowledge, understanding and practical application of techniques required to realise your creative concept for an appropriate consumer market within your chosen specialism. You will develop skills for pattern cutting and construction of men's and women's jackets through traditional and industrial techniques. You will be exposed to a range of alternative production methods through practical workshops in pattern design, and conduct practical experimentation in soft tailoring to support the realisation of your creative projects that play with the notion of gender and fashion. You will learn to draft and sew jacket components: lapel, collar, collar stand, two-piece sleeve, jacket interfacing and lining.

Cultural and Contextual Studies in Fashion 2: Fashioning Identities and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fashion
The module looks into identities of self, community, nation, and how these identities are influenced by theoretical, historical and socio-cultural context within gender, body, social class, ethnicity, race, youth, celebrity, and consumer complexity, drawing from a range of research materials.

Creative Industries and Opportunities 2: Fashion and Industry Relations
This module will prepare you for future career management and an industry-placed internship. It will help you to develop an active role in defining your own career goals and planning of your future career. You will research and reflect upon your chosen career pathways to write a fashion CV, and generate a digital online portfolio.

Fashion Techniques 2B: Intermediate Skills in Fashion 2
This module expands and refines your knowledge, understanding and practical application of techniques required to realise your creative concept within your specialist pathway. You will work progressively towards the realisation of a complete body of work integrating a minimum of two fully resolved separates.

LEVEL 3

Creative Portfolio: Historical Dress and New Technologies
In this module you are expected to redefine notions of applied research in the contradictory topics of historical dress and new technologies. Technical studies become part of your individual creative practice. The integration of studio and technical research to combine traditional garment making traditions with new technologies will challenge your perception of fashion, art, and science.

Research Methods in Fashion
This module allows you to focus and further your research on a particular topic of interest related to a field of fashion that you have explored in Level 1 & 2. You will conduct independent and self-directed research to develop your focused research theme that will lead to the completion of an extended essay of 6,000 words at the end of Semester 2.

Graduating Portfolio: Graduate Collection
This module is the culmination of your creative and technical experience in fashion. It provides the opportunity for you to apply previous knowledge and skills acquired in solving a self-initiated project to produce a creative body of work, demonstrating creative independence, a high level of creative thinking and understanding, and strong conceptual thinking, as well as proficiency in your specialist area of study.

Extended Essay in Fashion
You will continue to refine the research process and methodologies pertaining to your topic of study in the previous semester through individual supervision and independent study. You will also define the link between theory and practice in your specialist discipline. You will be expected to integrate your secondary and primary research findings into your argument. You will embark on and complete your extended essay of 6,000 words that conforms to academic conventions.