MFA Menswear with Professional Experience

at University of Westminster

Course structure

The following modules are indicative of what you will study on this course.
 

Core modules

Menswear 1

This formative module progressively develops your confidence and encourages imaginative, practical and critical knowledge to the highest level. This module is based upon a taught programme of projects aimed at bringing your research, design, specialist abilities and thinking to postgraduate level. This module helps to consolidate and complement skills.
 

Menswear 2

MA Menswear should be viewed as a single unit that progressively develops your confidence and encourages imaginative, practical and critical knowledge to the highest level. This summative module is designed to enable you to generate your own perspective on originality, the creation of the appropriate specialist techniques and a working process and context that establishes you as an influential and informed design professional.
 

Menswear Industry

This project encourages and enhances employability skills with industry experience. Employability is embedded in the module through a live brief in collaboration with an industry partner which will be the prelude to a work placement where you’ll gain professional work experience. You’ll attain commercial awareness, entrepreneurship skills and resilience within the world of work with a global outlook. Learning and achievement will be evidenced through a design project and a reflective, analytical report based on work placement that demonstrates critical understanding of the context of their practice within industry.

A minimum of an upper second class honours degree (2:1) or a lower second class honours degree (2:2) and substantial relevant work experience. Applicants are required to submit a portfolio, if this does not contain sufficient menswear content, applicants will then be required to create a virtual portfolio of three design projects that best evidence individual inspiration, and how this is developed through the process of designing. Applicants will also need to identify in writing a specific area of personal interest that they believe will create a positive contribution to the menswear industry and which they envisage studying in depth whilst on the course.
 

Selected applicants invited to interview (who have not done sufficient menswear) will be sent a project which entails creating six menswear outfits. The work is to include a visual portfolio; inspirational design development ideas, including fabrics research and techniques; line-up with illustrations and flats including final fabrics and colour palette; working toile or single finished garment.
 

If your first language is not English you should have an IELTS 6.5 with 5.5 in all components.
 

Applicants are required to submit one academic reference.

International tuition fee: £22,000 (Price per academic year)

This course brings together people who have significant industry experience and are interested in establishing their own menswear brand. Students must be prepared to launch their brand upon successful completion of the course.
 

In the past, the course has benefitted from visiting lecturers such as Charles Jeffrey, Rotting Dean Bazaar, Ben Reardon and companies such as Adidas and Martine Rose.