Why choose Fashion BA Honours at Middlesex?
This is a flexible degree with a strong focus on sustainability. You will collaborate and create using digital and traditional technologies to discover your unique voice as a fashion and textile creative.
Prepare yourself for a rewarding job in the fashion industry by learning a broad range of Fashion and Textile design skills, and enhance your employability by specialising in your chosen fashion pathway.
You'll learn and develop design skills for the Textiles and Fashion industries, enhancing employment opportunities on graduation. Working with our talented tutors, you will experience new ways to approach both hand drawn and digital techniques. The full Adobe suite is free to all students on and off campus on this course.
You'll have access to an incredible range of traditional and digital textile equipment and specialist spaces as well as work placement opportunities. In your second year, you'll be able to undertake a work placement in the fashion industry, and you'll be able to take advantage of further opportunities to take a one-year work placement module.
Our department is based around a collaborative learning environment, so you'll be able to work together with Fashion Communication and Styling and Fashion Marketing students on projects.
What you will gain
By joining us on this course, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Gain knowledge in methods and techniques in fashion and textiles research and development to carry out independent and client-led design projects
- Identify personal areas of strength and areas for growth to evolve the unique voices needed to change the future of fashion
- Learn the skills to create textiles and garments to a high professional standard of finish
- Consider a range of responsible, collaborative design solutions to make the fashion and textiles industries more sustainable and inclusive.
Further benefits include:
- Opportunities to explore all areas of textile and fashion design before specialising
- Established connections with the fashion industry
- One of the best-equipped fashion courses in London
- Projects and competitions set by industry contacts.
What you will learn
Our Fashion BA is designed to:
- Equip you with industry-relevant skills and knowledge whilst fostering your agility to operate with integrity and a strong sense of personal identity within the global fashion community
- Teach you to think creatively and independently
- Teach you to work collaboratively
- Be responsive to the evolving needs of the fashion industries to work towards UN SDG 12 (Target 12. 5 ‘By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse’)
- Celebrate the differences between digital and traditional technologies and their relative merits and uses in context.
