Course overview
This course is rooted in a global and local context.
Expand your knowledge of the fashion business whether you are from a creative fashion design, make or visualisation background and seek to contextualise your making through entrepreneurial business planning. Work within the industry as a fashion designer, marketing/business professional or related as you expand and focus your learning within fashion business. You develop as a learner and a professional within this area.
Explore the diverse and global nature of fashion, building on Teesside University’s existing international relationships. Take advantage of routes to employability through intraprise within the fashion industry and fashion enterprise that connects design and non-design advanced learning in these areas. You develop into a thought leader and creative entrepreneur who innovates with the fashion ecosystems and global futures.
Course details
Course structure
Core modules
Explore the garment production and development process gaining a critical understanding of key issues surrounding the fashion business. You investigate product lifecycle management systems vital for any fashion business designing, manufacturing, or distributing clothing, footwear and accessories products. Make the most of opportunities offered to build a well-rounded understanding of product development and business challenges, with practical activities, visits, and guest lectures.
The fashion industry touches all aspects of the world affecting social, economic, cultural, political, communities and individuals. Question the future of fashion and speculate on the future of fashion within your own specific field of discipline. You create a fashion manifesto that discusses the future of fashion, and your personal goals within a fashion context and evaluate the opportunities for reaching them.
Through research, analysis, and the evaluation of technological, ecological and social systems you built your manifesto that forms a narrative of the future world of fashion and how you can contribute to the sustainable future of fashion.
Unleash your vision as you dive into a major, in-depth, individual study tailored to your discipline and career aspirations. Whether you're interested in commercial, industrial, creative, or research fields, this project is your canvas.
Take full ownership of your project, from idea to execution. Create artefacts, exhibitions, publications, campaigns, and digital works either from scratch or significantly developing your own previous work.
Integrate all your learning into a substantial body of work that showcases your vision as a creative practitioner. This is your chance to shine your brightest.
Elevate your creative research skills, a cornerstone of all creative disciplines, fuelling both academic and creative work. Learn engaging research practices and critical thinking to tackle real-world issues, policies, and audiences. Join a vibrant postgraduate community, exchanging ideas and perspectives across various creative fields. Benefit from lectures and online tutors delivering key knowledge on current debates, issues, and research approaches in the arts and creative industries. Participate in seminars and studio sessions for active debate and practical application of research.
The Fashion System: Concept and Process
Focus on fashion as a conceptual system and the issue-based problem-solving journey involved in design and non-design contexts of fashion ecosystems. Core to the fashion process are the emotional, thematic, and critical values engaging in fashion as a conceptual process. You confront concepts and themes critically in the first stages of the process before using these to underpin a portfolio of work within your specific design or non-design area of the fashion industry.
You use the studio to refine and define your focused thematic project in your area of specialism. as you define a specific focus and issue in your preferred area of fashion. You develop a body of work that responds to this conceptual focus from inception to solution.
Modules offered may vary.
How you learn
You learn through lectures with experienced academics presenting key themes across fashion, design, business, branding, fashion capital and fashion economies.
Most learning takes place in studio sessions with a mix of activities including practice and making, class presentations and discussions, practical activities and workshops, development activities, group critiques, peer reviews and progress reviews. Self-reflective practices and self-evaluation is important to the course so you explore your particular and specialist fields of the fashion system and your knowledge and understanding of fashion as a system and process.
A rich mix of learning materials and resources are available to you through our virtual learning environment to undertake self-directed learning.
How you are assessed
A wide range of assessments enable you to demonstrate your practical design and creative innovation skills. You receive verbal and written feedback throughout the course to support your development and prepare you for final assessment.
Entry requirements
Applicants are normally expected to have at least a 2.2 UK honours degree, or equivalent qualification. A range of degree subjects are acceptable including subjects related to arts, design or other creative discipline. We also consider relevant experience or equivalent qualifications.
Students with a degree awarded outside the UK must also meet the University's minimum English language requirements.
Non-EU international students who need a student visa to study in the UK should check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language requirements. The University also provides pre-sessional English language courses if you do not meet the minimum English language requirement.
For general information please see our overview of entry requirements
International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting Your Country
Employability
Career opportunities
After graduation, you could progress on to launch your own international fashion brand and business, or you could work in international roles for fashion organisations, in positions such as a business manager, a branding/marketing executive, a social media marketing executive, a buyer or a merchandiser.
Information for international applicants
Qualifications
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Useful information
Visit our international pages for useful information for non-UK students and applicants.