Fashion Communication and Content

Realise your creative and commercial ambitions in fashion writing and visual communication through multi-platform editorial image-making and storytelling.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Learn to effectively communicate multi-platform fashion content

• Explore key issues surrounding the global environment, fundamental fashion communication theories, and ways in which this knowledge can be applied to your practice

• Gain diverse creative and technical skills that enable you to develop concepts into final presentations for specific audiences

• Build the knowledge and tools to grow as a well-equipped and multifaceted fashion thinker

• Address real world challenges through creative input, technical capability, and contextual insight

• Create a portfolio of work that contributes to the dynamic fashion industry and positions you towards your desired career

• Impress the public and industry by exhibiting your work at the end of your final year

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Real-life experience
Your studies will be informed and delivered by people from all areas of the fashion industry, and you’ll work on live briefs set by real clients. You could also complete a year in industry as part of the course. If you choose this route, you’ll gain invaluable experience of fashion communication and content in real world settings. Your placements allow you to build your experience and contacts. They'll also help you decide what you want to achieve when you graduate.

Fashion Alliance North
Fashion Alliance North brings together Northern universities and industry partners to strengthen fashion education, research, and graduate opportunities across the North of England. The collaboration supports emerging fashion talent, celebrates regional creative identity, and challenges London-centric assumptions around access and progression within the fashion industry. Alongside opportunities for students and graduates, it encourages collaborative research, knowledge exchange, and wider engagement with fashion’s cultural and economic impact across Northern regions.

Guest lectures
We run guest lectures and workshops throughout the year, both on campus and in conjunction with external organisations. The INSIDE/OUT lecture series brings together some of the most exciting names from the fields of art, architecture, design, fashion, film, music, performing arts and beyond. You can catch up on previous lectures by visiting the Leeds Arts Research Centre site.

Why study the BA (Hons) Fashion Communication & Content course at Leeds Beckett University?

• Opportunity to take a placement year – a year of paid employment in industry which will build your skills and experience

• Close links with design and creative businesses and tutors with extensive professional experience and networks

• Work on live projects with partners including Fashion Alliance North gaining hands-on experience in real industry collaborations

• Ranked 15th in the UK for Fashion and Textiles*

• Gain practical experience by working on live brief projects set by real-world clients

*The Guardian University Guide 2025

Year 1 Core Modules:

• Fashion, Practice, Context, Professional: Exploration
• Fashion, Practice, Context, Professional: Experimentation

Year 2 Core Modules:

• Fashion, Practice, Context, Professional: Communities
• Fashion, Practice, Context, Professional: Situation

Year 3 Core Modules:

• Fashion, Practice, Context, Professional: Positioning
• Fashion, Practice, Context, Professional: Future