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Course overview

MA Fashion Storytelling, a new collaboration between London College of Fashion and the V&A, brings together two world-leading institutions for the research, study and curation of fashion. Through specialist teaching and sustained access to the V&A’s collections, this course will provide an intellectual framework to consider the active role played by museum professionals, researchers and audiences in the shaping of fashion narratives, and the centrality of storytelling to cultures of fashion and dress. The course has two pathways: Fashion Cultures and Histories will equip you with high-level theoretical analysis and research skills for a diverse range of professional and academic contexts. Fashion Curation will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to thrive as a curator and cultural producer within the museum, cultural and commercial sectors.

Fashion Cultures and Histories Pathway

MA Fashion Storytelling: Fashion Cultures and Histories takes an interdisciplinary approach to the theoretical analysis of fashion as a key marker of social and cultural change, and a means of understanding the relationship between individuals and communities. On this course, you will develop high level writing, research and analytical skills, preparing you to become an informed storyteller, critic and communicator, generating new knowledge about fashion in its multiple contexts and shaping the ways it is understood. A unique Master’s degree situated in a dedicated London fashion college, provides you with grounding in relevant, innovative and critical fashion histories and theories. The course is committed to embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice. Taught principally by London College of Fashion’s Cultural and Historical Studies Department alongside curators and researchers from the V&A, you will join a unique community of researchers at the forefront of fashion studies, using your knowledge to enact meaningful and transformative change.This course responds to shifting dynamics within the fashion industry, and the increasing need for storytellers, critical thinkers and cultural leaders, who can activate fashion knowledge within the workplace. Through this course, you will learn vital leadership and research skills that will enable you to reflect and articulate fashion knowledge across cultural difference, within professional and academic contexts. You will actively generate new thinking about fashion and help to shape the ways in which it is understood, presented and evaluated. In providing the tools for constructing compelling narratives about fashion for specialist and general audiences, the course prepares you for future-facing careers in research, publishing, education, museums, think tanks, institutes, within the fashion and culture industries, or to undertake further study in a fashion-related subject.

Programme Structure

Course units

Theoretical Approaches

Research in Practice

Fashion Narratives: Histories

Fashion Narratives: Dialogues

PG Elective Units

Research Proposal

Masters Project

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

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Language

English

IELTS

7

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

IELTS

7

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General requirements

Entry requirements

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:

An Honours degree at 2.1 or above in a related discipline. Applicants with a degree in another subject may be considered, depending on the strength of the application
OR Equivalent qualifications

1. APEL (Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning)

Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:

Related academic or work experience (minimum of three years)
The quality of the personal statement
A strong academic or other professional reference
OR a combination of these factors

Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

2. English Language Requirements

IELTS level 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Please check our main English Language Requirements.

Tuition Fees

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30890 GBP / year

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14420 GBP / year

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Living costs

London

United Kingdom

1137 - 2157 GBP / month

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