Fashion Design

Our BA (Hons) Fashion Design course has an established reputation, with exceptional national and international links within the fashion Industry, as well as a recognised global presence.

NTU fashion graduates are renowned within the industry for their creative, innovative and directional design skills, as well as a strong underlying awareness of commerciality, sustainability and technologies.

Key features

• Gain hands-on industry experience: You’ll have the opportunity to complete a work experience placement of up to a year in length. Dependent on the duration of your placement, you could gain an additional Diploma or Certificate in Professional Practice.

• Take part in global opportunities: Go on optional international study trips to events like Paris Fashion Week. You can also apply for a European or international exchange to partner institutions, including the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• Learn from visiting experts: Benefit from guest lecturers such as Giles Deacon, Christopher Raeburn, and internationally renowned Japanese pattern cutting expert Shingo Sato.

• Work on live briefs with leading brands: Get involved with competitions and live projects with companies like Paul Smith, Sunspel, AllSaints, Universal Works, Priya Ahluwalia, Burberry, and Phoebe English.

Employability

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

• Tom Ford

• Victoria Beckham

• Vivienne Westwood

• Yohji Yamamoto.

Our students have also had success at: The Young Ideas 50 Years in Fashion Illustration Competition, the Young Creators to the World contest at Lima Fashion Week in Peru and the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers’ Contest (YDC).

Your space to create at NTU

Our Fashion Design studios are lively, highly creative environments based in the Bonington building, a dedicated art and design hub.

[Year One]

• Fashion Fundamentals and Specialisms (80 credit points, full year)
• Design Fundamentals and Refection (40 credit points, full year)

[Year Two]

• Industry Practice and Menswear (40 credit points)
• Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-Taking (20 credit points, second half of the year)
• Personal Exploration and Research (40 credit points, first half of the year)
  Optional module (20 credit points, first half of the year). Choose one optional module from:
• Slow Making and Craftsmanship
• Millinery : Object and Narrative
• Trend Forecasting
• Web3 & Creative Autonomy
• Drawing & Exploring with Natural Materials
• Fashion Styling
• Virtual Production
• Prop Making

[Year three]

• Optional Placement Year (Sandwich)*
  We have an option for all of our students to undertake a placement year (Sandwich) and allow you to decide whether this is right for you once you have completed years 1 and 2 of your course. This time spent working in industry provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation. If you are successful in securing a placement you will have the chance to gain an additional Certificate or Diploma in Professional Practice, dependent on duration.

• If you choose to take the sandwich route option, you will still need to apply for this course with the full-time UCAS code.

[Final year]

• Creative Practice and Theory (20 credit points)
• Creative Practice and Intention (40 credit points)
• Creative Resolution and Futures (40 credit points)

Assessment is predominantly through coursework. You will receive feedback throughout each module and will be awarded a grade. Depending on the module, you may be assessed through 2D visual research and design development work; 3D development work and final product; portfolio work; evaluations; reports; essays; and a dissertation.

People excel in different ways, and we want everybody to have the best possible chance of success. On this course you will be assessed on a range of individual and group presentations, and your final year project.

Year 1 coursework (100%)
Year 2 coursework (90%), practical exams (10%)
Year 3 course work (100%)
Your work in Year Two accounts for 20% of your final degree mark, and your work in your final year accounts for the other 80%