Hone your creative integrity, expertise and aspirations in fashion. You’ll choose to specialise in: fashion design, visual communication for fashion, or fashion writing. Framed by three defined strands, this course is open to your interpretation. We’ll provide a bespoke postgraduate experience that aligns with your career intentions and aspirations beyond your master’s study. You’ll be encouraged to explore your individual approaches to sustainable practice, diversity and inclusion within the fashion industry. On this master’s course, you’ll choose a strand to specialise in: Fashion design Visual communication for fashion Fashion writing On the fashion design strand, you’ll typically: Hone your design thinking and craftmanship into commercially viable fashion prototypes, using the course to ‘testbed’ your concepts in relation to your market Develop traditional and/or experimental pattern cutting and construction processes Explore craft and innovation to inform materials and fabrication within your work Apply your creative identity and practice in line with your career aspirations On the visual communication for fashion strand, you’ll typically: Explore concepts of traditional and digital visual marketing Develop your chosen technique or process, such as fashion photography, styling, illustration, or film On the fashion writing strand, you’ll typically: Develop skills related to the creation of editorial content. This could include print magazine content, online writing, or promotional work Enhance your written skills to a professional standard, specifically in relation to fashion journalism Be encouraged to think creatively and innovatively about the publishing industry as a whole Learn through an engaging mix of lectures, seminars, and workshops Whichever strand you choose, you’ll: Develop your independent practice to become a self-reliant, innovative, and critically minded professional Explore in-depth research methodologies during the Research Methods core module Produce a proposal and complete a dissertation (or business plan) related to your Independent Study 1 & 2 projects Complete a portfolio of work that will demonstrate your research and practical skills to potential employers or clients.