MA Fashion Design

The MA Fashion Design course at Northumbria University provides a creative, challenging and supportive environment where students can develop their authentic collections ready for the international fashion market. The course encourages innovation, craftsmanship, technical capability and entrepreneurial skills.Course Content: The course is based on three main strands – research, design and professional practice. The students will be asked to explore and analyse fashion contexts, challenge traditional fashion boundaries and create innovative and aesthetically beautiful designs. Those enrolled in the course will be expected to negotiate a programme of study which reflects their own personal strengths, skills and interests within the subject area of Fashion Design.Key Modules: The MA Fashion Design course consists of key modules including Design, Contextualising Your Practice, Collaborative and Independent Fashion. While the Design and Collaborative Fashion modules focus on designing creative, innovative and aesthetically strong fashion products, Contextualising Your Practice allows students to define and utilise current relevant theory to inform their practice. Independent Fashion offers students the opportunity to present their final project, designed and developed in light of the insights gathered throughout the course.Accreditations: There are no specific accreditations associated with this course mentioned on the course page.Future Careers: This programme prepares students for a broad range of career opportunities including new and established designers, design teams in larger fashion companies, independent retailers or indeed setting up their businesses. Many students find roles such as product developers, fashion buyers, merchandisers, pattern cutters or trend prediction experts.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.