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You will work in our 'fashion lab' as a collectively sharing and exchanging ideas in the culture of three-dimensional design. With our well-established industry links and partnerships, the craft and skill of fashion is paramount at Kingston University and is developed through pioneering projects with industry practitioners from our Fashion MA staff team.

During the course you will also participate in interdisciplinary modules established across both the School of 3D Design and the School of Communication Design. This gives you the opportunity to expand your current design thinking and methodology, experiment and transform your medium, and work in dynamic teams to exchange and create ideas.

Students successful in gaining a place on Fashion MA at Kingston will begin the course by showcasing their summer signature project work at the annual London Fashion Week Show as part of Vauxhall Fashion Scout.

The Fashion MA course consists of three stages:

* Stage 1 establishes your design signature in a series of critical design projects and new fashion methodologies. You will be required to answer fundamental design questions to investigate your focus for your Fashion MA studies. Through the Process Module you will engage in inter-practice and contemporary design processes assisting you in developing significant design techniques through new materials, technologies, and design's relationship to science as well as developing communication techniques and ideas through performance and presentation.
* Stage 2 of the programme characterises your fashion practice through creative development and design articulation. Students engage in live industry briefs maintaining focus. During this stage you will develop your design DNA by sharing, engaging and exchanging with leading organisations their creative ideas, gaining vital feedback to challenge your practice during which you accomplish your individual Fashion MA methodology. Stage 2 also offers the opportunity to undertake significant work experience. Opportunities are available to work for major designers to assist in preparation for the London fashion shows calendar. Hybrid fashion creatives will also intern across the design sectors with commercial futures thinkers, product and innovation based creatives to gain experience. You will also identify and build partnerships with potential sponsors and collaborators for your Major Project.
* Stage 3 of the programme allows the designer to define, resolve and present their design practice. Designers use fashion futures to forecast their major project proposal to our industry panel. The final stage of the course is then spent developing and defining your work for Body Laboratory as part of The Vauxhall Fashion Scout Presentation and Show at our annual showcase during London Fashion Week. This conclusive phase of the Fashion MA programme is a vital opportunity to present your work as tomorrow's fashion designer, fashion communicator, fashion critic, fashion strategist, fashion technologist, fashion researcher, fashion materialogist, and craftsperson or maker.



Course structure Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

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* Process Module
* Process Module
Process involves critical thinking, developing methods of design from a raw starting point. Students often forge cross-faculty hybrid collaborations, resulting in significant creative partnerships.

The module includes:

* observations identifying the creative eye;
* mind mapping a series of techniques for design predictions and design themes;
* systems (colour and material design) processes to generate design objects and techniques through material recreation;
* iterations the redefinition and critique of ideas; and
* work in progress a contemporary process to showcase ideas.

The Process Module will include a series of leading guest designers, presenting students with critical design workshops or key lectures.

This module is studied in collaboration with creatives from the Design: Product and Space MA, the Design: Product and Space & the Creative Economy MA and Design with Learning & Teaching in Higher Education MA.


* Fashion Context I Module
* Fashion Context I Module
Fashion Context I is made up of two critical design projects and the introduction of fashion-focused workshops within the studio such as Digital Draping.

At the end of Stage 1 designers present their portfolio and processes to our Fashion MA team.



Stage 2

* Focus module
* Focus module
This module invites leading industry and significant organisations to propose contemporary design questions in emerging design 'hot spots' to our Fashion MA students. You will develop intellectual concepts as fashion provocations in response to a problem where design brings added value through your individual practice.

You will also further develop your key skills in the area of design illustration and soft technology workshops.

Past themes have included health, care and wellbeing and multi-sensory design.

Previous partners for the Focus Module:

* The Vassell Centre, Bristol UK
* Givaudan A global leader in the fragrance and flavour industry
* Kingston Hospital


* Fashion Context II Module
* Fashion Context II Module
Fashion Context II is about the development of the designers DNA. Two projects set out the designer's focus, brand and style. This module includes Major Project Proposal in which you establish your intensions for your Major Project as a Fashion Futures Forecast.

At the end of Stage 2 designers present their portfolio and processes to our Fashion MA team.


* Major Project Proposal module
* Major Project Proposal module
The Major Project Proposal module is designed as a fashion forecasting exercise, allowing you to convey your fashion manifesto. The project acts as an artistic and design-led recipe for the Major Project and Exhibition - the final and pivotal stage of the Fashion MA programme.



Stage 3

* Masters Project and Exhibition

Requirements

We normally expect candidates to have a good first degree in fashion design or related subject and a first class portfolio of work.

English language requirements

All classes are conducted in English, so students will need to be fluent in their understanding and be able to communicate their ideas. Students who do not have English as their first language will need to provide evidence they have a IELTS score of 6.5 or above, with a TOEFL a hand-written test with a score of 548-567, plus a computer test of 211-225. We provide springboard classes and pre-postgraduate courses in English during the summer term leading up to Stage 1.

Prior learning - AP(E)L

Applicants with prior qualifications and learning may be exempt from appropriate parts of a course in accordance with the University's policy for the assessment of prior learning and prior experiential learning

English Language Requirements