Fashion Design The Glasgow School of Art

Overview

The Fashion Design from The Glasgow School of Art develops resourceful and independently minded designers who challenge and interrogate the field of fashion in new and innovative ways, taking inventive, rule-breaking approaches to surface and silhouette.The programme encourages students to consider the human form as a limitless opportunity for creative expression and to develop an individual visual language accordingly. 

Those who focus on a surface approach are guided to create rectilinear textile forms and then work intuitively and sculpturally on the body, exploring the inherent qualities of the fabrics. Students concentrating on silhouette are encouraged to take experimental and imaginative approaches to three-dimensional form, cut, shape and construction methods.

Throughout the programme, students embrace a playful, unrestrained dress-up box approach to fashion subverting and disrupting craft and clothing conventions. The programme supports students in moving effortlessly and expertly between 2D and 3D, making spontaneous and reasoned responses, considering the outermost and innermost details, and designing responsibly for optimum social, environmental and cultural impact.

The aims of the programme are to:

• acquire an understanding of how fashion design practices and processes are informed by historical and cultural contexts through engagement with the visual and tactile language of fashion using a variety of learning approaches.
• investigate making practices and material culture through participation in a range of independent and collaborative studio projects and interdisciplinary interactions.

• develop an understanding of research, experimentation, and realisation processes within fashion design, motivated by curiosity, individuality, reflection, and self expression to communicate and inform ideas.

• challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries and definitions through the constructive disruption of processes, materials, and technologies to nurture innovative and creative design outcomes.

• encourage self-direction and ethical responsibility to inform project work using critical thinking and experimental methodologies.