Postgraduate Graduate Diploma Fashion

at University of the Arts London

The course begins with projects which support you in identifying and developing your design strengths. You will develop your work in consultation with staff on an ongoing basis. As you progress throughout the course, projects will be negotiated with course staff and become increasingly self-directed. This will give you the opportunity to demonstrate independent learning in the context of your final projects.

Unit 1: Diagnostic: Research and Creative Development 

This unit has a diagnostic function, introducing you to the course team and the Fashion programme. You will be expected to present your work for presentation and critique. You will work on a number of projects, allowing the course team to assess your practice and support your development. You will also be introduced to London as a fashion and cultural capital and a resource for research. The unit culminates in a project which enhances and consolidates your skills in working creatively to a design brief. 

Unit 2: Final Project and Portfolio: Development and Resolution 

In this unit, you will define the rationale for your final design project. You will use the skills and knowledge developed in Unit 1 to realise design work which is targeted at a specific market. The major part of this period is given over to completion of the final project which defines what you have gained from the course. This comprises realised creative work, together with a portfolio of design work. This unit concludes with final assessment, examination and your degree exhibition. 

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:
 

• An honours degree in a relevant discipline such as fashion, fashion textiles, accessory design, or jewellery design

• An equivalent EU/international qualification.

AP(E)L – Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Exceptionally applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
 

• Related academic or work experience

• The quality of the personal statement

• A strong academic or other professional reference

OR a combination of these factors.

Each application will be considered on its own merit but cannot guarantee an offer in each case.

English language requirements

IELTS score of 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking

Home fee
£11,550

International fee
£23,610

The Graduate Diploma in Fashion is one of a number of related courses in the Fashion programme.

During their studies students are guided by some of the most eminent and experienced current practitioners in the field of fashion enabling them to benefit from the teaching and learning methods which have produced some of the world's leading fashion design professionals.

The Graduate Diploma in Fashion has been created to produce mature and sophisticated designers equipped to work in and design for the international market. You will leave the course with a portfolio and realised design work that will effectively support entry into employment in the fashion industry and access to postgraduate study.

Graduates of the course progress to postgraduate study on a wide range of well established courses in London, the UK and elsewhere in Europe including: Central Saint Martins' MA Fashion (Womenswear and Menswear) and MA Textiles Futures courses; MA Fashion at the Royal College of Art; MA Fashion at Arnhem; MA Fashion Design and Technology (Womenswear and Menswear), MA Digital Fashion, MA Fashion Marketing and MA Footwear Design (all at London College of Fashion); MA Design and Environment at Goldsmiths and MA Fashion at Westminster University, or go on to establish design careers in London, the UK and Europe as well as their home countries.