BA (Hons) Fashion Design at Anglia Ruskin University

Create your own fashion designs from day one and launch your career with a professional portfolio and stand-out final collection. Forge an identity as a designer, specialising in menswear or womenswear, and put your new knowledge and skills into practice on live industry projects. You’ll create your own fashion designs and engage with all aspects of the design process, including drawing, traditional and experimental pattern cutting, draping, textiles and digital media.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences  |  Department: Cambridge School of Art  |  Duration: 3 years; 4 years with placement  |  Study mode: full-time (placement year available)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

You’ll start by getting to grips with the basics: pattern-cutting and construction, drawing, fashion illustration and digital image-making. As well as building upon these skills and developing your trademark style and portfolio throughout the rest of the course, you’ll explore fashion promoting and marketing, learn about responsibility and sustainability in fashion, and gain valuable experience, so you can graduate with a full understanding of the industry. Year 1: Design Process and Concept, Cut, Form and Construction, Sustainable Cutting Lab, Digital Fashion Practice, Critical and Contextual Studies 1: Think, Play, Learn. Year 2: 3D Digital Fashion and Innovation, Contemporary Cut and Realisation, Design and Industry Practice, Fashion Communication and Promotion, Critical and Contextual Studies 2: Creativity and Context in Dialogue, Ruskin Module. Year 3: Fashion Concept: Pre-Collection, Graduate Collection and Professional Portfolio; options include Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Creative Inquiry, Critical and Contextual Studies 3: Working in the Creative Industries.

Career pathways

Designers from industry came to our lessons - high-end like Antony and Alison as well as from companies like Marks and Spencer, so we learned about different ends of the design world. Our BA (Hons) Fashion Design degree will support you to gain a range of industry experience and insight so you can pursue roles suited to your skills, talents and aspirations.

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