The BA (Hons) Fashion course at Northumbria offers you the opportunity to explore craftsmanship, aesthetics and the encapsulation of the body through a range of materials, pattern cutting and manufacturing processes, constructed knitwear and printed textiles for fashion. This four-year sandwich course has an established reputation for producing directional designers with the creative vision and the commercial realism to begin a career within the Fashion sector. This Fashion programme has successfully developed the professional identity of our graduates since 1955. You will learn how to challenge the conventions of contemporary fashion through design research and critical reflection, set against the study of traditional values of high craftsmanship that underpin garment-making and textile construction from haute couture collections and archival fashion, to emerging new designers sustainability and ethical fashion practice. You will be supported in your journey by experienced academic and technical staff helping you to identify a personal fashion design philosophy, and develop your intellectual design practice and artisan craft skills.This programme has successfully developed the professional identity of our graduates since 1955. Undergraduate and graduate portfolios contain creative projects, some set by external collaborators, enable you to build and curate a portfolio of your own work. This portfolio will be a central element in applications for work placements and employment. This course is a creative platform with a track record in educating a significant number of respected designers. At Northumbria you will be part of a culture fashion design established in in 1955, crucial in developing your professional identity. Your creative projects, some set by external collaborators, will enable you to build and curate a portfolio of your own work. This portfolio will be a central element in applications for work placements and employment.