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JCA | London Fashion Academy
JCA | London Fashion Academy
20 Hanover Square
Mayfair
London
W1S 1JY
Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design & Brand Innovation (Taught)
- MA (PG)
- 1 Years
- Full-time
- 21 September 2026
- Postgraduate
- Mayfair Campus
- Awarded by:
- University of West London
Course summary
The MA Fashion Entrepreneurship in Design and Brand Innovation has been designed with enterprise creation as a central distinctive feature. Students on the course will establish themselves as freelancers or micro-SME’s and will be encouraged to develop a commercial enterprise from the outset.
Key to our approach is the delivery of practice-based education in which you will be professionally ‘incubated’ as an aspiring designer-entrepreneur and to develop your craft in professional studios.
Through a balance of both business and vocational skills, students will develop and hone a progressive and comprehensive range of personal, professional and entrepreneurial skills to develop new fashion concepts through to commercialisation, and address the need for the fashion entrepreneur who can identify market opportunities in the industry.
This design-led, practical course aims to produce internationally versatile professionals who can successfully create, lead and manage fashion businesses, from design, through construction and manufacture, to sales. Learners will undertake a wide range of activities from, start-up business solutions, brand innovation and the design and development of a fashion collection within the context of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Modules
Research Methods for Fashion
Enterprise Management
Fashion Incubation
Brand Development
Collection Proposal
Innovation and Entreprenuership
MA Project
Assessment method
Course modules are designed to enable you to fully professionalise your learning by taking a practice-led and experiential approach to assessment which is contextual and applied and follows your personal area of specialised practice and subject interest.
Entry requirements
The JCA seeks to support the best and most gifted designer to fulfil their ambitions. Recruitment will be selective and based on academic and creative potential assessed through prior qualifications, portfolio and academic interview. Motivation is essential.
The equivalent ‘minimum’ of an upper second honours degree in a fashion practice
To submit an appropriate portfolio of work
To come to an interview and talk through the creative and written work produced as part of the portfolio submission.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | 6.5 | You need to meet our English language requirement - a minimum of IELTS 6.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). |
You also need academic qualifications at the same level as UK applicants.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
Per year tuition fees
| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
Additional fee information
Unlike many of the mainstream University and specialist College’s, JCA will provide you with most things needed to undertake your studies, including fair use access to basic materials, such as some fabrics and finishing, that elsewhere you may need to purchase.
You will also be provided with many of the art materials needed as part of your introductory packs, such as pattern making and sewing materials starter pack and a general art and illustration box.
Where costs may be incurred then, beyond the needs of assessment, could be over the quantity or type of specialist materials that you may want to procure as part of your wider portfolio development. This is especially the case for instance in your final project where you may want to use specialised fabrics.
In our experience, we believe that material costs are unlikely to exceed £500.
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