Course summary

Explore physical and material responses to fashion styling alongside the investigation of a multitude of fashion languages and develop your analytical and critical awareness. What can you expect? As a BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production student, you will be provided with a supportive environment to engage in the discipline through experimental practice, critical debates around fashion image making, and sophisticated technical and research skills. You will be encouraged to participate in co-creation and actions that realise positive change through creative practice and styling as a form of storytelling. This will be situated within a contemporary and historical knowledge of your creative discipline, within the wider perspectives of fashion and socio-political considerations. We nurture our students to be critical fashion image makers, supporting them by encouraging the investigation of themes such as diversity, identity, community, and sustainability, all of which will be located within a contemporary fashion landscape.

• Multi-platform: Explore physical and material responses to fashion styling whilst developing practical, digital and research skills alongside critical awareness and wider perspectives on the fashion industry.

• Collaborative practice: With a shared unit with the other courses in our Media programme, you'll be able to collaborate with other students, replicating industry practice and supporting the development of communities of practice.

• Industry: Through external projects, events, competitions and live briefs, you'll engage with the fashion industry throughout the course, allowing you to apply your learning to real world situations.

• Utilise technology: Develop your understanding of production and styling, whilst using current technologies in your work, ensuring you graduate able to take on a range of roles in the fashion industry.

• Work experience: You will have the opportunity to take a work placement during your second year of study, helping you apply your learning to the world of work and build your professional network.