BA (Hons) Fashion Design

Duration

3 years

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

W230

A collection of design images featuring pencil illustrations, colour sketches and photographs. The dresses are draped on the body, are shades of red and grey and consist of different fabrics including wetlook polyester.
A collection of design images featuring pencil illustrations, colour sketches and photographs. The dresses are draped on the body, are shades of red and grey and consist of different fabrics including wetlook polyester.

Aisling Flemming

Chinab Narang
Chinab Narang

Chinab Narang

Ella Liversidge and Tim Walker
Ella Liversidge and Tim Walker

Ella Liversidge and Tim Walker

A sketch of four models, wearing black combat boots, titled Sacramental Beasts. The first wears a patterned balaclava, gold jumper and black combat trousers. The second wears an orb headdress, a patterned crop top and a tartan skirt. The third wears an orb headdress with a patterned top featuring a lace-up design and combat trousers. The fourth wears a coat with tartan sleeves and a hood.
A sketch of four models, wearing black combat boots, titled Sacramental Beasts. The first wears a patterned balaclava, gold jumper and black combat trousers. The second wears an orb headdress, a patterned crop top and a tartan skirt. The third wears an orb headdress with a patterned top featuring a lace-up design and combat trousers. The fourth wears a coat with tartan sleeves and a hood.

Eve Sheppard

A photograph featuring two models posing in formal black shoes. One wears a blue chiffon shirt with long puffy sleeves and high-waisted grey trousers. The other wears a blue cotton jumper adorned with different coloured rosettes and grey trousers.
A photograph featuring two models posing in formal black shoes. One wears a blue chiffon shirt with long puffy sleeves and high-waisted grey trousers. The other wears a blue cotton jumper adorned with different coloured rosettes and grey trousers.

Campbell Harris

A collection of design images featuring pen illustrations and photographs. They include hats with long flaps, headdresses, bags and full-body suits in green and blues. One of the headdresses is called 19th Century Anamorphic Ballerina.
A collection of design images featuring pen illustrations and photographs. They include hats with long flaps, headdresses, bags and full-body suits in green and blues. One of the headdresses is called 19th Century Anamorphic Ballerina.

Harriet Hooper

A series of colour sketches titled Clothsurgeon X Bowled Over Collection. Models wear different bowling outfits with attire such as waistcoats, cardigans, suit jackets and trousers. There are collage images of bowling bats and a ball.
A series of colour sketches titled Clothsurgeon X Bowled Over Collection. Models wear different bowling outfits with attire such as waistcoats, cardigans, suit jackets and trousers. There are collage images of bowling bats and a ball.

Imogen Argyle Ross

A photograph of three models wearing veils with a lace design. One wears a black suit jacket with a green collar and orange, black and blue patterned trousers. Another wears a green top with a draped scarf and layered orange and white skirt. The third wears a white patterned jacked with green trousers.
A photograph of three models wearing veils with a lace design. One wears a black suit jacket with a green collar and orange, black and blue patterned trousers. Another wears a green top with a draped scarf and layered orange and white skirt. The third wears a white patterned jacked with green trousers.

Ines Lacruz

A series of design drawings with collage featuring models wearing different outfits. These include dresses, jackets, trousers, tops in lilacs, yellows, oranges and greens.
A series of design drawings with collage featuring models wearing different outfits. These include dresses, jackets, trousers, tops in lilacs, yellows, oranges and greens.

Jade Tran

A collection of digital designs and paint drawing featuring a blue jacket with light grey pockets. The digital designs consist of grey suit jackets and formal trousers with a silver carabiner attached. There is light grey material surrounding the jacket pockets.
A collection of digital designs and paint drawing featuring a blue jacket with light grey pockets. The digital designs consist of grey suit jackets and formal trousers with a silver carabiner attached. There is light grey material surrounding the jacket pockets.

Kamaal Barwany

A series of sketches and photographs with the title and definition Headwear: experimenting with headwear and hats that when styled will pull together the looks. Hat sketches are titled wide brim asym hat, tassle trim hat, side fasten head scarf and wide hat on side of head.
A series of sketches and photographs with the title and definition Headwear: experimenting with headwear and hats that when styled will pull together the looks. Hat sketches are titled wide brim asym hat, tassle trim hat, side fasten head scarf and wide hat on side of head.

Macy Austin

Two combined digital and pencil sketches of models. Both are wearing a long green jacket with white trousers and trainers. One is walking while wearing headphones, a white scarf and hat. The other is standing straight, their white jumper visible behind their coat.
Two combined digital and pencil sketches of models. Both are wearing a long green jacket with white trousers and trainers. One is walking while wearing headphones, a white scarf and hat. The other is standing straight, their white jumper visible behind their coat.

Rebecca Pollan Turner

A collection of digital design drawings titled Lost and Finding by Rosie Worsley-Frost. The designs are categorised as menswear and womenswear. Items include jumpers, shorts, bikinis, shorts, jackets, crop tops with long sleeves and full-length skirts. The main colour schemes include green, red, fuchsia, blue, grey and monochrome.
A collection of digital design drawings titled Lost and Finding by Rosie Worsley-Frost. The designs are categorised as menswear and womenswear. Items include jumpers, shorts, bikinis, shorts, jackets, crop tops with long sleeves and full-length skirts. The main colour schemes include green, red, fuchsia, blue, grey and monochrome.

Rosie Horsley Frost

A photograph of a model walking down a runway wearing a long sleeveless patchwork dress. The patchwork consists of floral designs in pastel colours such as pinks, creams, blues, yellows and crimson. There is a large tweed flower adornment on the left side of the dress. The model wears a large bow on the top of their head and dark yellow sneakers.
A photograph of a model walking down a runway wearing a long sleeveless patchwork dress. The patchwork consists of floral designs in pastel colours such as pinks, creams, blues, yellows and crimson. There is a large tweed flower adornment on the left side of the dress. The model wears a large bow on the top of their head and dark yellow sneakers.

Tin Kou

The Course

Discover your own design aesthetic and create a fashion collection and portfolio that showcases your individual energy and talents. This practice-based degree course embraces the diversity of fashion design in the 21st century.

Join a community of passionate students, all focussed on becoming informed fashion-design thinkers. You will explore the context of historical and contemporary fashion alongside broader factors that influence fashion design, including global fashion narratives, gender, sustainable practice, and ethics.

As a result of our connections with the fashion industry, you will benefit from inspirational visiting speakers, live projects and industry visits. Access to these exclusive activities demonstrates the esteem in which this course is held and our ability to produce ‘industry-ready’ graduates.

These established relationships enhance your portfolio and increase your awareness of the expectations of potential employers. Working with partners such as the British Fashion Council’s ‘Colleges Council’ and Graduate Fashion Week we offer opportunities to enter competitions, attend insightful seminars and presentations, and showcase your work on a variety of external industry platforms.

Using the latest technologies, from Mac suites to CAD and Adobe software, our staff support you to realise your designs. Our dedicated teaching team encourages practice-based skills from developing initial sketches and ideas into patterns then being realised into garments using industry standard equipment in our studios. We help you cultivate the attitude and skills needed to succeed as a professional fashion practitioner.

The Structure

Learn the core skills required for fashion design, such as fashion drawing and illustration, design methods, colour awareness and application, material use and behaviour, pattern cutting and garment production, visual research methods, portfolio presentation, and digital applications for design. Educational visits can take a variety of physical and virtual formats. These experiences offer a cultural insight into the fashion ecology and inspire your work.

Course Facilities

BA (Hons) Fashion Design students are based in studios housing resources which reflect those typically used in the fashion industry; our large studios are equipped with a range of industrial sewing machines, digital design and pattern cutting facilities, and presses that you would expect to see in a professional garment production setting. Printmaking facilities include flat-bed and vacuum-bed screen-printing for textiles and paper, using a variety of print media, digital textile printers and a large dye laboratory.

Students are able to borrow photography equipment including digital SLR cameras for still and moving image, lighting and a range of support equipment, which can be used in our lighting studios or off-site. Digital print resources enable professional-standard, large-format digital printing and print finishing. Large format (up to A0) printers are available, capable of printing over a metre wid.

Computer suites house networks of Apple Mac computers featuring regularly updated, industry-standard software for a wide range of creative applications that support all our courses including: image creation, scanning, editing and manipulation; and 3D scanning and 3D printing. All our suites use equipment consistent with that used in the creative workplace. A purpose-built specialist library is open to all students and includes Digital Collections to enhance the learning experience, and special collections of artists’ books, photobooks and illustrated books as well as the University archive. Self service facilities are available throughout, supported by a dedicated and experienced team of library staff.

BA (Hons) Fashion Design

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Study Abroad

Studying abroad can help Leeds Arts University students gain valuable experience, broaden their horizons, develop international networks and experience their practice from a different perspective. Leeds Arts University has a global network of international partner universities in 15 different countries. Students can apply for a semester abroad in their second year of study.

Accolades

Our students have had prize-winning entries put into production that have led to offers of employment and exposure in national media. Recent accolades include:

  • London Fashion Week – class of 2022 film showcase on the British fashion Council LFW platform

  • Finalist Golden Shears Tailoring Competition 2023, 2021, 2019 and 2017

  • ‘Brightest talents emerging from Britain’s leading fashion schools’ feature photographed by Tim Walker

  • Students’ work featured and interview in Love Magazine Diaries, Volume 2, July 2020

  • Grazia magazine – Graduate Fashion showcase, student featured as one of nine UK fashion graduates to watch, June 2020

Career Opportunities

The fashion industry is ever diversifying, and there are many opportunities for our fashion design graduates. Typically, careers include positions in fashion design, fashion buying, trend prediction, visual merchandising, garment production and technology, and pattern cutting. Some graduates choose to take on freelance work, or set up their own company. Graduates may also continue to postgraduate study.

Academic Staff

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Nicola Knight

BA (Hons) Fashion Design - Course Leader

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Andrew Bannister-Bailey

BA (Hons) Fashion Design - Senior Lecturer

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Emma Grain

BA (Hons) Fashion Design - Senior Lecturer

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Caroline Riches

BA (Hons) Fashion Design - Lecturer

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Katie Roe

BA (Hons) Fashion Design - Lecturer

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Janie Tweddle

BA (Hons) Fashion Design - Senior Lecturer

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