Fashion Design

Overview

In a Nutshell

The Fashion Design programme of the University of Salford builds on the success of the highly-rated BA (Hons) Fashion Design, which is recognised as a leading fashion education programme. It was listed by Business of Fashion in 2019 as one of the top 22 fashion design courses globally, and is ranked 11th in the UK in the Guardian League Tables (2019).

This course embraces a range of practices and aims to:

• Enable you to develop an advanced understanding of research methods in the context of contemporary fashion practice and to understand how creative innovation is advanced through research.

• Empower you to develop creative, critical, analytical and intellectual competencies appropriate to master’s level degree study.

• Support you to develop, extend and apply complex strategies and approaches appropriate to professional studio practice, embedding the knowledge and skills required to establish you as a fashion design practitioner.

You will:

• Develop a broad range of skills in scenic and set design 

• Learn to analyse and interpret scripts and generate and evaluate visual concepts 

• Gain the experience to produce three-dimensional scale models and props in order to test and communicate concepts.

Employment

Upon graduation students would typically apply for jobs within fashion design or mayset up their own brands/businesses or entrepreneurial ventures.

Graduates may also continue their research through a practice-based PhD.