Epsom Fashion

BA (HONS) FASHION

The BA (Hons) Fashion course at the University for the Creative Arts at our Epsom Campus has an international reputation for nurturing world-class talent and advancing the role of creativity and innovation within fashion design. It is one of the leading fashion courses in the UK, supported by state of the art facilities and the excellence of our academic and technical expertise.

RESOURCES

Our students have access to state of the art facilities: including four spacious design and pattern cutting studios; two industry standard sewing and pressing workrooms; digital print, screen printing and laser cutting facilities; Mac computer suites; photographic equipment hire and photo studios; fabric store; art shop and our extensive art & design library.

COMMUNITY

The BA (Hons) Fashion course at the Epsom Campus is a highly desirable place to study with a friendly, dynamic and creative community of students studying across a wide range of fashion related courses and is ideally located with close proximity to London.

We have created an environment where our community of students are able to network and collaborate with other students on the BA (Hons) Fashion course as well as with students who are studying on our Digital Media, Fashion Promotion, Fashion Journalism or Fashion Marketing courses, and seeks to encourage cross-disciplinary practice and reflect the professional working environment.

COURSE PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy of the course aims to provide a friendly, creative and professional learning environment that enables our students to be inquisitive and experimental within their design thinking and within their practical work. Our students are encouraged to take risks and engage in a wide range of creative projects that seek to support the development of their professional skills and innovative design practice.

Our teaching focus is placed upon the development of versatile and adaptable fashion designers who are equipped with the essential skills and knowhow to be able to respond to both conceptual and commercial briefs, underpinned by a sound knowledge of the fashion industry and a critical understanding of the social, economic and cultural factors influencing their professional environment.

Students on the course also develop a wide range of practical skills within areas of pattern cutting, garment manufacture, drape, tailoring, fabric manipulation, and constructed textiles, as well as professional image making and visual communication skills within areas of design drawing, illustration work and use of mixed media, photography and styling, portfolio presentation and computer aided design, which are all key to the distinctive quality and success of our fashion graduates.

Our fashion graduates progress with transferable and holistically formed expertise, which prepare them for postgraduate study or to establish their careers within the fashion industry equipped with comprehensive employability skills for a highly competitive and constantly changing employment market.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

The diverse range of career paths that our fashion students successfully progress onto after graduation, is a testimony to the versatility and breadth of experience gained on the course, and include menswear designers, womenswear designers, trend forecasters, design consultants, stylists, brand and product developers, design studio managers, fashion illustrators, fashion textile designers, creative pattern cutters, garment technologists, production managers, fashion buyers and merchandisers.