Creative Direction and Curation for Fashion BA (Hons)

Introduction:

• No one does ‘curation’ like us — learn how to blend trends and research to tell better, richer stories.
• Build your industry connections with an optional placement — lasting from either six weeks to a year.
• Get a wider creative perspective — partner with students from courses across our School of Art & Design.
• Enjoy trips across the UK and Europe — study abroad with NTU’s prestigious international partners.

Careers and employability

‘Creative Director’ and ‘Art Director’ are job titles — but even at a junior level, you’ll be involved in direction and curation from your first days in the industry. That’s true whether you’re working in-house at a big company, for an agency, or as a freelancer. It’s our job to give you the full professional picture of what creative direction and art direction look like in the real world — and to ensure you’ve developed a great portfolio of hands-on experience, building your professional reputation as a specialist in a particular scene or field.

We’ve focused on ‘curation’ because it’s cropping up increasingly in job titles — whether you’re booking models, developing an avant-garde menu for a Michelin-starred restaurant, or compiling the perfect between-sets playlist at a music festival. This is a future-focused course; we’ll be imagining jobs that don’t even exist yet, and seeing how the newest names and agencies are doing things that little bit differently. You’ll learn to ride trends and stay in step with an industry where tastes, production methods and insights are constantly evolving.

Along the way (and for up to three years after your course finishes), you’ll have the support of our friendly, award-winning Employability experts. Once you’ve graduated, your professional pathways could include:

• Creative Director
• Art Director / Fashion Art Director
• Designer
• Photographer
• Stylist
• Copywriter / Fashion author
• Videographer
• Event Producer

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