London College of Fashion

Introduction to The Graduate School “What I like about LCF is the commitment to quality.”

HILARY ALEXANDER Former Daily Telegraph Fashion Director

Oliver Ruuger MA Fashion Artefact

Nam Young Kim MA Fashion Design Technology, Womenswear Contents

Introduction to the Graduate School 6 London is Your Campus 10 LCF in the World 12 Working with Industry 16 Our Graduates - Where are they now? 22 Research at London College of Fashion 37 Research Centres & Hubs 44 How to Apply 50 Scholarships and Awards 53 Student Services 54 Course Information 64 Contact Information 120

5 London Introduction to College of Fashion The Graduate School

Now more than ever, we are engaging with the creative, The interdisciplinary nature of our commercial and social issues that Postgraduate and research activity surround and shape the widening allows for dynamic interaction world of fashion. At national and between disciplines and the international level, we are making continual cross-fertilisation of our mark on the industry today, and ideas. We recruit a dynamic mix of students anticipating future challenges. a range of academic backgrounds and professions. We have a range of courses including Graduate Diploma, Postgraduate At this level, LCF attracts self- Certificates, Postgraduate Diplomas motivated people who embrace and Masters’ degrees. the dual challenge of independent study and close collaboration - and To study a Postgraduate Diploma find that exposure to the views of or a Masters degree you will others widens their perspective, need to have a related Honours enriches the learning experience and degree. If you do not have this accelerates creative development. then you can take a look at our Graduate Diplomas.

6 There are many ways in which LCF Our professors provide further staff, students and alumni breathe inspiration and stimulation to the life into the world beyond the learning environment. They give us college walls and they recieve vital insight into the broader creative arts support and endless inspiration and help us look at fashion business from LCF. Industry partners and and culture with fresh eyes – friends add constantly to our changing the way we think about knowledge base, on a commercial what we make and do here, and and intellectual level. Some of the how we present it to the outside most influential and iconic figures world. There’s nothing new about come here to talk to our students: this enthusiasm for innovation. It Lucinda Chambers, Giles Deacon, explains our transformation over a Carmen Dell’Orefice, Tom Ford, period of more than one hundred Colin McDowell, Roland Mouret, years from trade school into Joan Bernstein (Browns), Ian R Webb internationally renowned fashion and Zac Posen are among them. institution, and the part we have played in weaving fashion into the fabric of twenty-first century life.

7 “LCF has a remarkable history of producing the worlds best design talent.”

HAROLD TILLMAN CBE Chairman of the British Fashion Council, owner of Jaegar and Aquascutum and LCF alumnus speaking at the 2010 MA Catwalk Show.

To view content from the Catwalk Show go to: http://blogs.fashion.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/tag/ma_10

8 Matteo Mollinari MA_11 Catwalk Finale at the Victoria and Albert Museam

9 London is your campus

LCF is based across six different sites throughout LCF is one of the six Colleges that make up London, one of the main fashion capitals of the University of the Arts London - a vibrant world world. We are not a campus based university, so centre for innovation in art, design, fashion, expect to travel around and you will be able to make communication and performing arts. Located the most out of London while you study. within, and contributing to, one of the most exciting World class museums and renowned commercial cultural capitals, the University is a unique creative galleries sit comfortably next to small artist-run community that draws together six distinctive and exhibition spaces that feature experimental work. distinguished Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, International landmarks and major department Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, stores are only around the corner from hidden Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College markets, small boutiques and designers’ studios. of Communication, London College of Fashion and London is yours to discover. Wimbledon College of Art. Proudly associated with some of the most original thinkers and practitioners www.arts.ac.uk/prospective/london in the arts, the University continues to innovate, challenge convention and nurture exceptional talent.

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10 “LCF is one of very few colleges that offer costume design at MA level. I was first drawn to it because the location could not be better in terms of access to all the things that London has to offer.”

Nadia Farah Malik MA Costume Design for Performance

To read Nadia’s full interview go to: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/student-stories/nadia-malik

11 London College of Fashion IN THE WORLD

We have active projects, industrial collaborations, offsite courses and successful alumni all around the world; it is this global outlook that enriches everything we do and places us at the forefront of fashion education and consultancy. www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/lcf-in-the-world

12 13 LCF in Bangladesh Middle East LCF is the UK lead partner on a At different times of the year LCF the world British Council funded project in offers a range of short courses in Bangladesh. This project enables Dubai delivered by specialist tutors. To knowledge transfer and sharing of find out when, keep an eye out at specialist activities between LCF’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion and www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international/ its international partner. The project partnerships-and-development/ will establish new networks and middle-east connections to develop capacity for creative thinking and entrepreneurial Sri Lanka skills that innovate new products and LCF has developed a continuing services that are eco-friendly. professional development short course at the University of Moratuwa. The www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international/ Sri Lankan Government invested in the partnerships-and-development/ fashion and textile sector to improve its bangladesh competitiveness through encouraging partnerships between local businesses China and international industrial and LCF is closely linked with Beijing educational organisations. Institute of Fashion Technology. This project has provided the opportunity www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international/ for both countries to explore how partnerships-and-development/ they can work together and lead in sri-lanka these areas, as well as to strengthen the relationship between the two Turkey leading fashion schools. The College provided consultancy to establish a new fashion institute in www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international/ Istanbul in 2007. We were involved partnerships-and-development/china in a large scale EU funded project for Turkey to establish clustering India as a mechanism to improve the LCF is helping to build a deeper competitiveness of the fashion and understanding of the Indian garment textile companies. industry and supply chain. As part of a five year research programme funded www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international/ by The British Council, LCF together partnerships-and-development/turkey with educational partners in the country, aim to substantially improve Uzbekistan educational links between India and LCF has delivered a series of projects the UK. and workshops in colleges in Tashkent. We work closely with the partner www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international/ institutions at local level so that partnerships-and-development/india their institutional strengths can be mapped against industry need with the intention of increasing the value of what is learned to mean real economic growth, while equipping students with an appreciation of the context in which their skills can be applied.

www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international/ partnerships-and-development/ uzbekistan

14 CreditCentre for Sustainable Fashion Bangladesh Project Photography People Tree 2011

15 Working with Industry

“Too many people just dive into the industry without having that grounding and to be able to have the opportunity to study fashion [at LCF] you are studying all aspects of it both the design and the making. It’s invaluable and makes a much more rounded person in the industry.”

DANIEL RUBIN Dune Group Chief Executive speaking at the 2010 MA Private View

To view content from the Private View go to: http://blogs.fashion.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/tag/ma_10

16 The Fashion Business Resource Recent curriculum sponsored projects Studio (FBRS) specialises in building have been completed with companies relationships between LCF and the representing most sectors of the fashion industry for the benefit fashion, arts and lifestyle industries, of our students and the wider such as: community. We provide LCF students and graduates with the relevant New Look Collaboration with information to successfully forge a London College of Fashion career within the fashion industry. We Students on the MA Fashion Footwear source employment opportunities, course were tasked with designing internships, placements and a collection consisting of six styles projects relevant to our student’s across shoes, boots and sandals which requirements. We also offer a were launched in store in April 2011 professional service, listening to the as ‘The London College of Fashion individual needs of our students and Masters Collection for New Look’. graduates, academics as well as our industry partners. http://blogs.fashion.arts.ac.uk/ snapshot/tag/new-look/ Live industry projects Industry based student projects London College of Fashion provide a true partnership re-styles Damart between the company and the Damart, well-known for it thermals and students, offering genuine creative outerwear for the traditional woman, involvement. Companies set students provided students from the Graduate a ‘live’ project brief and benefit Diploma in Fashion Media Styling from the experience by getting our course with items from its Spring/ students’ fresh and innovative outlook Summer 2011 collections to style for on their brand. magazine photoshoots and film as part of a course module. Students involved in projects get the opportunity to put their knowledge Damart’s Marketing Director, and creative skills to work on a live John Bottomley said: brief ranging from design, promotional concepts, photographic campaigns or “We’ve really enjoyed working with the creation of a product. these inspirational students and have been amazed by the results which have really given us food for thought. We’re currently undertaking a lot of work at Damart looking at how we can appeal to the younger lady who is very different in attitude from women of this age just 20 or so years ago. They are much more active, vibrant and keen followers of fashion and I think the work the students have produced shows just how different ways of styling can make clothes more accessible to different ages.”

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17 Ekaterina Smorshchok & Shweta Wagh Graduate Diploma Fashion Media Styling

18 19 Mademoiselle for Damart by Derya Copur & Gabriela Ganem Graduate Diploma Fashion Media Styling

20 21 Our Graduates - where are they now?

“It’s been a crazy exciting year… I’ve got into some pretty big international competitions. I’ve had my work in Vogue Italia and Numéro magazine. I just got an email today about making an outfit for Lady Gaga!”

ÚNA BURKE MA Fashion Artefact Collection of the Year 2009 speaking at the 2010 MA Private View.

Úna went on to make outfits for Lady Gaga’s “Monster” world tour as well as designing items for Christina Aguilera & Daphne Guinness.

22 Úna Burke MA Fashion Artefact 2009

23 “What LCF offers is a wide range of courses which caters for the industry and they specialise in technique and craft which develops a designer to their full potential.”

Manjit Deu

MA Fashion Design Technology Collection of the Year winner 2009 speaking at the 2010 MA Catwalk Show

24 LCF graduates hold leading roles within the international fashion industry covering all sorts of areas in journalism and styling, design, buying, merchandising and management.

LCF alumni are continually sought after by employers for the talent and attitude they develop during their life at the College.

Just a few of our successful alumni:

• Joseph Azagury (footwear designer) • Jacques Azagury (fashion designer) • Jessica Bumpus (Fashion Features editor Vogue.com) • Jimmy Choo (footwear designer) • Harold Tillman (fashion entrepreneur and Chairman of the British Fashion Council) • Linda Bennett (LK Bennett – footwear designer) • Angela Buttolph (journalist & TV presenter) • Patrick Cox (shoe designer) • Sarah Harris (journalist) • Emma Hope (shoe designer) • Nicola Jeal (magazine editor) • Karen Kay (magazine editor) • Penny Lancaster (photographer) • Katerina Mutic - Mootich (footwear designer) • Olivia Morris (footwear designer) • Mandi Norwood (magazine editor) • Andrew Ramroop (tailor) • Melanie J Rickey (Fashion Editor-At-Large of Grazia magazine) • Rupert Sanderson (footwear designer) • Nicholas Kirkwood (footwear designer) • Jena.Theo (fashion design duo Jenny Holmes and Dimitris Theocharidis) • William Tempest (fashion designer) • Ada Zanditon (fashion designer)

25 Our Graduates – Where are they now?

Chris Liu MA Fashion Design and Technology After graduating from LCF, Liu set up 2003 Graduate his own womenswear line, Huan by Chris Liu. The collection has been sold Liu was born in Urumqi in northwest immediately to prestigious shops like China and from an early age was drawn Harvey Nichols, Joseph in London to Western art and fashion magazines. and Maria Luisa in Paris. In 2005 he It is this juxtaposition of cultures which left Huan and he continues his own went on to inspire his work. womenswear label as CHRIS LIU.

In the early nineties, Liu moved to Chris’ celebrity clients include Maggie New Zealand and studied at Auckland Cheung, Angelica Cheung, Shu Qi, University of Technology and worked Michelle Yeoh, Kylie Minogue, Sade, as a designer with knitwear brand Jamelia and Sophia Myles Sabatini for four years. In 2001 he moved to London for a placement at http://www.chrisliulondon.com/ Burberry Prorsum followed by a design consultancy with Christopher Bailey. See a filmed interview with Chris at www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ lifeafteruniversityoftheartslondon

26 Chris Liu MA Fashion Design and Technology 2003

27 Youngli Lee MA Fashion Design and Technology 2010

28 Our Graduates – where are they now?

Youngli Lee Lilee said: MA Fashion Design Technology 2010 Graduate “After the LCF MA press show, it was amazing to be offered collaboration by Originally from South Korea, Youngli ASOS. It’s a great opportunity for me to Lee, or Lilee as she prefers to be show my collection and to learn how known, came to London to study I can work in the commercial market. at LCF. After graduating from the Every stage with ASOS was exciting and MA Fashion Design Technology fun. ASOS always considered my opinion Womenswear course in 2010, she first and advised me on how I could was approached by ASOS.com to adjust my designs for ASOS customers. collaborate on the MA}ke project, a It was great that I didn’t have to change mentoring design initiative which many things from my original collection. sees her producing her LiLee for I didn’t have to eliminate my intricate ASOS collection. Known for her details, even though they are for the exquisite sculptural detailing using commercial market, because they could French rope; Lilee creates striking realise them in their factory. Through the twists on classic designs, which both process I found better ideas and designs transform and flatter the female came out!” silhouette. Hotly tipped as one to watch by both Vogue and Elle, Lilee’s work has already graced the pages of Dazed and Confused, Marie Claire and In Style magazines.

29 30 31 Our Graduates – where are they now?

Asger Juel Larson LCF BA and MA Fashion Design Technology Graduate

Originally from Denmark, Asger, a BA Fashion Design Technology Menswear graduate from 2009 then went onto study MA Fashion Design Technology Menswear and showed at London Fashion Week in February 2011 through Vauxhall Fashion Scout straight after his MA Show.

32 Asger Juel Larson MA Fashion Design Technology 2011

33 34 35 Credit

36 Research at London College of Fashion

www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/research

37 Research at London College of Fashion

There is a thriving research community at Current research initiatives at LCF are led by: LCF which is supported by dedicated research facilities such as the world class library and archive. Professor Lucy Orta Lucy Orta holds the title of Professor of Art Fashion www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/research/archives-resources and the Environment at LCF. In a body of work spanning more than a decade, Lucy Orta has created LCF’s pioneering projects, partnerships and degrees a unique genre that transcends denominations form an integral part of research within University of between fashion, architecture and traditional art the Arts London. The College’s staff have extensive practice. She discusses, debates and rethinks the research, consultancy and professional experience traditional principles of social structures, introducing within a wide range of specialist areas and enjoy close new ideas that have a profound engagement with links with the media and fashion industries. They are society, urban planning, cultural heritage and engaged in a number of research projects which range political and ecological policies. across subject areas from sizing and anthropometrics to fashion writing and fashion management. Current Professor Helen Storey projects involve collaborations with major UK and Helen Storey is Professor of Fashion and Science, and international academic, governmental, cultural and was awarded an MBE for Services to the Arts in 2009. industry partners and are funded by a wide range of bodies from the Arts and Humanities Research Council Her research interests include: (AHRC) to private business. • New technologies in the sciences and arts • Emotional literacy • Cross-curricular tools for reaching new public audiences • Human well-being • Delivering new content to invigorate the National Curriculum • New environmental solutions

Helen’s work widely spans the arts, sciences and new technology fields. She produces projects which illuminate aspects of science and well being in ways that directly interact with the public, with the broad aim of helping individuals reach their full creative potential. More recently she has begun to focus her creative energy on working in collaboration with other Universities to solve global problems.

38 Professor Sandy Black Professor Ian King Sandy Black is Professor of Fashion and Textile Ian King is Professor of Management and Aesthetics. Design and Technology. Her research interests are in His approach is to re-sensitise rather than follow knitwear, fashion and textiles design with particular or accept more traditional routes of management emphasis on 3 dimensional aspects of design and inquiry that seem to ‘de-sensitise’ people’s realisation, incorporating mathematical principles. involvement. He is currently developing a research Inter-disciplinary design in social and cultural context; programme to explore and expand the guise of Innovation in knitwear particularly 3D and seamless knowledge underpinning the major world Fashion construction; Intersection of arts and science with Weeks and to encourage a wider population of design; Sustainable design in fashion and textiles and stakeholders to engage and contribute to the future development add considerate design. development of knowledge in this field.

Professor Reina Lewis London College of Fashion and the V&A Reina Lewis is Artscom Centenary Professor of The increasingly productive and exciting Cultural Studies. Her current research breaks down collaboration between the College and the Victoria into two interconnected areas - feminist postcolonial and Albert Museum has, from 2002, been enhanced studies (concerned predominantly with changing by the creation of a joint residency in Fashion Design attitudes to Islam in the ‘west’ and in the Middle and Practice. This post has created the opportunity East), and lesbian, gay, and queer studies (concerned for innovative designers to create ground-breaking mainly with the role of dress in the formulation of work during a period of residence at the Museum in sexed and gendered identities). Her most recent accordance with the fashion and curation interests project, funded by the AHRC, is “Modest Dressing: and research priorities of both partner institutions. faith-based fashion and internet retail”. www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/research/staff

39 Professor Helen Storey, MBE Professor of Fashion and Science Exhibited at the ‘Drawing and the Body’ Exhibition

40 Noro Kim MA Fashion Artefact Exhibited at the ‘Drawing and the Body’ Exhibition

41 Professor Lucy Orta Professor of Art Fashion and the Environment Exhibited at the ‘Drawing and the Body’ Exhibition

42 43 Research Centres and Hubs

The research community at LCF is made up of a Specialist Research Centres – number of specialist centres and hubs: Centre for Sustainable Fashion Connecting research, education and business to support, inspire and create innovative approaches to fashion. The Centre for Sustainable Fashion provokes, challenges and questions the fashion status quo. Collaboration enables the design of transforming solutions that can balance ecology, society and culture.

www.sustainable-fashion.com

Fashion Digital Studio As a world leader in fashion design and technology education, LCF is able to provide state of the art technological equipment and software.

The Fashion Digital Studio has been established with the intention to bring together both the academic researchers and technical experts with the creative end users and consumers, designers and thinkers, to challenge existing models of technology development for the fashion industries. The Fashion Digital Studio bureau services offer students, researchers and industry, access to the the technical expertise and equipment necessary to achieve competitive advantage, essential for profitable business success. We have invested in a range of advanced 3D scanning, visualisation and realisation technologies to turn creative ideas into reality.

www.fashiondigitalstudio.com

44 Research Hubs – Forum for Drawing Nurturing a broad interpretation of drawing from Fashion Media and Imagery paper to digital through series of presentations by The Fashion Media and Imagery hub explores the researchers and research students for whom drawing fields of communications, journalism, photography, plays an important but not always central role in their digital media and cultural theory and its work focuses practice or research. on comparative fashion studies, consumption studies, gender studies and the politics and sociology of fashion. Management and Marketing Hub Clothing manufacture and retailing are major Historical and Cultural Studies contributors to national economies throughout the Themes covered by the Historical and Cultural Studies world; understanding and affecting change through hub include fashion, gender, faith, ethnicity, oral research has become a concern for participating history and urban geography. businesses and governments. This research hub develops and consolidates activities of researchers Artefact, Performance and Curation Hub addressing the consumption and business The Artefact, Performance and Curation hub challenges improvement of fashion design and its retailing. the ethical, social, political and environmental impact of fashion arising out of a study of the body and its diverse www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/research/centres-and-hubs modes of communication.

Pedagogic Research The Pedagogic Research hub specialises in researching fashion education to support and enhance the delivery of teaching and learning. Key areas of interest include providing a framework to support collaborative projects.

45 46 Yuliya Krylova MA Costume Design for Performance 2011 Victoria House Basement

47 Oliver Ruuger MA Fashion Artefact 2011

Photography: © Michiel Meewis www.michielmeewis.com

48 Research Students

Research students are able to study to MPhil and What some of our current research students are PhD level by pursuing an in-depth research project working on… in an individually defined subject area. Alexander J. Aidan www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/research The Mirror Men: Fashion, Ideal Selves and Zero-masculinity

Katherine Appleford I’ve got nothing to wear: A Study of Women, Fashion and Taste

Rachel Cool Lifter The Indie Project and the Contemporary Construction of Style

Felice McDowell A History of British Fashion Photography and Art Practices - Shot Through Fashion Magazine Photo-spreads Since 1945

Hormazd Narielwalla The Raj - Historical Military Uniform Construction, Analysis and Artistic Communication

www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/research/degrees

49 How to apply

All Masters degrees, PG Diplomas and Graduate Interviews take place within six weeks of these Diplomas start in September. deadlines. Candidates will be contacted as soon as possible after each deadline. PG Certifitcate courses have a October and/or February start. Please check the courses page. Please check the course information starting on page 64 for specific application requirements and Home/EU applicantions are accepted throughout the the selection process. year with a deadline of 1 March for those wishing to apply for AHRC funding and a final deadline of 5 July. Interviews take place in March, June, August/ Early application is advised. September and October/November subject to the availability of places. International applications for Graduate School courses starting in September or October have no final deadline. International applications for Postgraduate Certificates (February start) have a deadline of 23 September.

All applications will need to be accompanied by two references (one of which should be academic) and a copy of your highest qualification to date. Depending on the course, applicants will need to complete a study proposal, essay and/or study proposal. Please refer to the course specific guidance notes which you can download from the course page www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/graduate-school

50 Research Applications A Research Degree provides an opportunity to pursue an in-depth piece of research in an individually defined subject area using self-directed study methods, with the College providing appropriately qualified supervision in collaboration with the other colleges of the University. There is research activity in all of the subject areas in which the College is involved, including:

• Fashion Design Technology • Fashion and Textiles Design • Cultural and Historical Studies in Fashion and Textiles • Cosmetic and Beauty Science • Fashion Business and Marketing • Fashion Communication and Journalism • Costume Design

For more information email [email protected] or go to: www.arts.ac.uk/research/degrees/ howtoapply

51 “I think LCF is really at the top…”

LULU GUINNESS Accessories designer speaking at the 2011 MA Catwalk Show

To view content from the Catwalk Show go to: http://blogs.fashion.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/tag/ma_11

52 Scholarships and Awards

Our responsibility towards some of our most talented students extends to providing financial support. So we are immensely grateful to the many partners and benefactors who make a growing range of scholarships and bursaries available at postgraduate level. “I think LCF is really at the top…” Cordwainers’ MA Fashion Footwear Harold Tillman Scholarships Scholarship These scholarships are aimed at Open to Home/EU and International students applying to a Postgraduate LULU GUINNESS MA Footwear applicants, the level course. They are specifically Accessories designer speaking at the 2011 MA Catwalk Show scholarship covers the cost of intended to encourage applications Home/EU fees and a contribution to from those who will benefit from the cost of materials. further study but who are unable to finance themselves. 5IF
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4DIPMBSTIJQT Postgraduate scholarships worth £5,000 London College of Fashion are available to Home/EU students show Graduation Awards show a likelihood of academic excellence. The College gives a number of prizes to graduating students at both BA and MA level.

www.arts.ac.uk/fees-funding/funding/

To view content from the Catwalk Show go to: http://blogs.fashion.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/tag/ma_11

53 Student Student Services at University Services of the Arts London enables you to develop your professional, personal and creative potential.

Student Services can help you to The Language Centre organise essential aspects of living and The Language Centre offers English studying in London, including and English Plus courses to students your finances, career, immigration, from all over the world and also disability and health. supports the International full-time students at the University. 0 Throughout your time with LCF, you can book appointments with As a student at The Language Centre Student Services staff for impartial you can experience university life, even and confidential advice. if you are here for just a few weeks. You can choose courses of General www.arts.ac.uk/student English or Academic English, English for Specific Purposes, English for Exam Please check our website for the latest Preparation or our unique English Plus information on fees programmes. English Plus courses combine General English classes at www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ The Language Centre with practical internationaltuitionfeesmoney art, fashion, design or communication courses at the Colleges. Student Advisers University of the Arts London Student http://www.arts.ac.uk/languagecentre Advisers can help you with a range of financial and other issues whilst LCF International Office you are a student, including grants, The team are able to advise you on student loans and benefits, and can your choice of course and they can also also give advice on matters specifically interview applicants who have applied relevant to international students, such to study at the College. as immigration law, funding and your rights as a student. If you are an international student and have a query about applying please get in touch. www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/international

54 Anna Barlund MA Fashion Photography 2011

55 Amanda Adomaitis MA Fashion Design Technology Womenswear 2010

Photography: © Michiel Meewis www.michielmeewis.com

56 Ya-Fan Chang MA Fashion Design Technology Womenswear 2010

Photography: © Michiel Meewis www.michielmeewis.com

57 Raymond T MA Fashion Photography 2011

58 Raymond T MA Fashion Photography 2011

59 Christopher Agius MA Fashion Photography 2011

60 Christopher Agius MA Fashion Photography 2011

61 Shiba Huizer MA Fashion Photography 2011

62 Shiba Huizer MA Fashion Photography 2011

63 Course Information Graduate School Courses

Graduate Diplomas Fashion Design Technology 65 Fashion Management 67 Fashion Media Styling 69

Postgraduate Certificates Fashion: Buying and Merchandising 71 Fashion: Creative Pattern Cutting for the Industry 73 Fashion: Fashion and Lifestyle Journalism 75

Postgraduate Diploma Pattern Design and Garment Technology 77

64 Graduate Diploma Fashion Design Technology

This one year course in fashion design is The course will cover units in Technical On successful completion of this ideal for international graduate students Creative Development, Fashion Language course, graduates will be in a position who want to become skilled in the and Context, Research Development and a to seek employment or further their subtleties of design and manufacture final Fashion Design Project. Graduates studies. Students will be able to access before moving into the industry or to will be placed in a strong position to a number of employment opportunities further Postgraduate study. function more professionally in a variety within a broad fashion industry sector at of industrial situations. home and overseas. What will I be doing? The course will cover both Menswear and Showing Your Work What are the Entry Requirements? Womenswear and aims to produce mature All students are given the opportunity Entry to this course is highly competitive: and sophisticated designers, equipped to profile their work online using the applicants are expected to achieve, or to work in design for the international Showtime section of the University and already have, the course entry requirements market. Specialist staff and facilities cover College websites - showtime.arts.ac.uk detailed below. most new and established technologies enabling students to have an understanding London College of Fashion can make no • An Honours Degree in fashion or of how industry functions in the areas of guarantee that your work (either in sum or clothing design and/or production or manufacturing and design. in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled equivalent qualifications in any way as part of your course. All student Students will benefit from inclusion in a work appearing in College organised events, Exceptionally, applicants who do not variety of special lectures offered across catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms meet these course entry requirements the graduate school and the course of showcase, is selected by a panel of may still be considered if the course team will give graduates the ability to make senior staff and, in some instances, external judges that the application demonstrates confident and informed decisions should industry judges. additional strengths and alternative they wish to apply for Master’s study. The evidence. This might, for example, be Graduate Diploma qualification has a What Next? demonstrated by: related academic or strong vocational element and students Students will have the opportunity work experience; the quality of the personal will be placed in a professional working to progress their studies to MA level statement; a strong academic or other environment undertaking ‘live’ and within this capacity as appropriate, professional reference; or a combination of collaborative project work. through course such as MA Fashion these factors. Design Technology, MA Fashion and the Environment or through MA Independent Continued / Project.

65 Graduate Diploma Fashion Design Technology

English Language Requirements Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Applications from overseas applicants Further information can be found on the any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses International Office, and if suitable will be For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

Study Level Higher Education Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route (Level 6) September Autumn Home/EU International 24 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 15 March No deadline, early Course Length Course Location application is advised Deadline 1 year John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 15 April - 21 June Home/EU fee application is advised £9,000 International Fee £13,300

66 Graduate Diploma Fashion Management

This is a conversion course for those Fashion Business Environment (20 credits) Showing Your Work students who have a 2.1 or higher first will consider strategies and concepts All students are given the opportunity degree in an area unrelated to fashion for different types of business from to profile their work online using the management. This course will enable small and medium enterprises to large Showtime section of the University and students who come from unrelated areas corporations. Creative Fashion Management College websites - showtime.arts.ac.uk of fashion management to progress onto (20 credits) looks at key requirements fashion management postgraduate study such as innovation, creativity and new London College of Fashion can make no or enter into employment. product development. A more specialist guarantee that your work (either in sum or in depth approach to Fashion Marketing in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled What will I be doing? Management (20 credits) will explore in any way as part of your course. All student The course will cover topics such as product branding and marketing communication work appearing in College organised events, life cycles, fashion marketing management, theories and practices. catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms business environments, marketing of showcase, is selected by a panel of communications and creative management. The final term offers you the opportunity senior staff and, in some instances, external The course had been developed with the to specialise in one of three areas of industry judges. input of Ian King, The Chair of Aesthetics expertise, retailing, marketing and creative and Management. This role is a new and management for the final Fashion Business What Next? exciting appointment to LCF encouraging Project (40 credits). This unit enables you The Graduate Diploma in Fashion new approaches to Fashion Management to follow your own specific interests and Management enables creative and research and education. create a project title of your choice with the ambitious individuals from a variety of support and approval of the Course Director. backgrounds the opportunity to respond The Fashion Business Language and to the ever increasing industry demands context unit (20 credits) will teach language It is foreseen that students will work on in the areas of buying and merchandising, skills, through a fashion glossary and live project briefs from the industry. LCF retailing, marketing, brand management industry environmental context; as well works with professional partners from and design management from a theoretical as improving the standard of English to a the fashion industry who have sponsored and practice-based perspective. minimum of 7.0 IELTS which will be tested at or provided monetary prizes and work the end of the course. experience for fashion management Graduates from this course will be equipped students, including Asprey, Oasis and Marks to develop and further their academic lives The introductory units Fashion Business and Spencer. through Masters courses, and some to Environment and Creative Fashion continue on to Research Degrees and PhDs. Management will provide a variety of With support from the Fashion Business specialist knowledge required as a solid Resource Studio and Centre for Fashion base for study. The second term will build Enterprise students will be supported on that knowledge with Fashion Marketing throughout the course to progress onto Management. The Fashion Business Project postgraduate courses as well as into the unit will enable you to specialise in your fashion industry. own interests and to research a self- selected topic from three subject areas of Continued / management.

67 Graduate Diploma Fashion Management

What are the Entry Requirements? English Language Requirements Entry to this course is highly competitive: All classes are conducted in English. The applicants are expected to achieve, or level required by the University for this already have, the course entry requirements course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in detailed below. any one skill.

• A first degree (2:1 or above) or FDA with a For more information, go to merit/distinction profile in any discipline, www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ or equivalent qualifications;. englishlanguagerequirements • A demonstration of the understanding of the skills required for fashion Selection Process management and marketing will be Applications from Home and EU applicants assessed on the application statement will be considered by the course team. and proposal at interview. You must Applications from overseas applicants be able to demonstrate creativity and will be considered initially by the LCF an understanding of the benefits of International Office, and if suitable will be organisational and management skills considered by the course team. Depending in the work place. A mature study on the quality of your application, you may commitment has to be demonstrated be invited for the next stage of selection. in the application and at interview as Following this, you may be selected for entering the fashion management interview. If you are successful at interview industry is highly competitive. you will be offered a place. • A study proposal. Please refer to the Students who require a Tier 4 Student course specific guidance notes. Visa to study with us to complete the UK Immigration History Form. Exceptionally, applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements Further information can be found on the may still be considered if the course team LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses judges that the application 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.

Study Level Higher Education Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route (Level 6) September Autumn Home/EU International 24 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time No Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 15 March No deadline, early Course Length Course Location application is advised Deadline 1 year High Holborn Summer No deadline, early 15 April - 21 June Home/EU fee application is advised £9,000 International Fee £13,300

68 Graduate Diploma Fashion Media Styling

This course will run at Level 6 which The Graduate Diploma in Fashion Media What Next? is equivalent to the final year of a BA Styling will draw on both industry contacts Agencies and users of style have a strong (Hons) degree. Primarily practice-based, and academic industry-based staff. It is demand for stylists to work within image this course will equip you with a solid anticipated that there will be “live” projects production teams, department stores, the grounding in visual and communicative and opportunities for Knowledge Transfer fashion and music industry, magazines and styling skills. projects. Styling is an integral discipline and PR events. you will engage in learning and teaching What will I be doing? strategies that will be collaborative by On successful completion of this course, It will deliver an authentic experience nature to mirror industry processes. You will graduates will be in a position to seek that reflects the needs and demands of have the opportunity to work with peers employment or further their studies. current industry, in the context of fashion, within the School of Graduate Studies on Throughout the course, stylists would advertising, film and music, and will furnish courses such as MA Fashion Photography, have been able to build up the beginnings you with core skills while furthering your MA Fashion Design and Technology and of a book or portfolio, which eventually professional development. MA Fashion Journalism, as well as industry will enable them to secure an agent and partners in the development of specific potentially enter the world of freelance By drawing on theoretical work, the course external industry projects and opportunities styling. New stylists commonly undergo a will also explore styling as a powerful and as appropriate. period of professional training as a Stylists challenging visual tool that can interpret, Assistant prior to securing their own agent. interrogate and challenge political, The course will be very practical with social and cultural contexts. You will individual and group project work, cross- Graduates from this course may be work alongside photographers, curators, course collaboration opportunities, student able to go into an assistant role during designers and journalists within the LCF presentations supported by critiques, the independent study time of the Graduate School, which will provide you and tutorials, workshops, demonstrations and course as well as through course specific other students with increased opportunities field trips. project work. for creative dialogue and collaboration. Showing Your work Continued / The course is split into 3 terms across which All students are given the opportunity you will study the following 4 units; to profile their work online using the Showtime section of the University and • Introduction to Fashion Media Styling College websites - showtime.arts.ac.uk • Interrogating the Image London College of Fashion can make no • In Style: Collaborative Project guarantee that your work (either in sum or • Language and Context in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled • Final Major Project in any way as part of your course. All student work appearing in College organised events, catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms of showcase, is selected by a panel of senior staff and, in some instances, external industry judges.

69 Graduate Diploma Fashion Media Styling

What are the Entry Requirements? Exceptionally, applicants who do not Selection Process Entry to this course is highly competitive: meet these course entry requirements Applications from Home and EU applicants applicants are expected to achieve, or may still be considered if the course team will be considered by the course team. already have, the course entry requirements judges that the application demonstrates Applications from overseas applicants detailed below. additional strengths and alternative will be considered initially by the LCF evidence. This might, for example, be International Office, and if suitable will be • Applicants must have a first degree (2:1 demonstrated by: related academic or work considered by the course team. Depending or above) or FDA with a merit/distinction experience; the quality of the personal on the quality of your application, you may profile in any discipline OR statement; a strong academic or other be invited for the next stage of selection. • Equivalent awards. professional reference; or a combination of Following this, you may be selected for these factors. interview. If you are successful at interview • Students may have a background in you will be offered a place. fashion styling, promotion, art direction, English Language Requirements hair and make up, or another relevant Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The discipline within the creative industries Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this as either professional experience Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in or gained through an appropriate any one skill. Further information can be found on the educational qualification. LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses • Applicants should be able to For more information, go to demonstrate the ability to research and www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ source material across the fashion media englishlanguagerequirements spectrum, with an understanding of related cultural and historical contexts. Students should be conversant with the various formats with which fashion media styling is shown. For example still and moving image, editorial, catwalk, hair and make up. • Study proposal and essay. Please refer to the course specific guidance notes.

Study Level Higher Education Start Date TTerm Dates Application Route Application Route (Level 6) September Autumn Home/EU International 24 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 15 March No deadline, early Course Length Course Location application is advised Deadline 1 year John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 15 April - 21 June Home/EU fee application is advised £9,000 International Fee £13,300

70 Postgraduate Certificate Fashion: Buying and Merchandising

The Postgraduate Certificate in The Buying and Merchandising unit organised events, catwalk shows, Fashion is a fashion business course develops students’ understanding of the exhibitions and other forms of showcase, with a vocational focus on buying and integration of buying, merchandising, is selected by a panel of senior staff and, in merchandising. It combines a post design and garment technology functions some instances, external industry judges. graduate level academic experience with in contributing to a fashion range. Students the vocational realities of retailer buying will consider a variety of factors in range What Next? and merchandising operations. The planning. The course has a high success rate of content includes application of business graduates gaining entry-level (and above) and management theory to fashion case In the Marketing and Supply Chain positions in both fashion buying and studies and a blend of individual and Management unit, students gain an merchandising departments of retail team work understanding of the market context in organisations. which fashion buyers and merchandising What will I be doing? function and the commercial implications What are the Entry Requirements? The course is designed for graduates for product ranges. Factors affecting the Entry to this course is highly competitive: aiming at a first career position in fashion supply chain are studied including product applicants are expected to achieve, or buying or merchandising but who need to market strategies and implications of already have, the course entry requirements supplement their first degree with a more external forces. detailed below. relevant academic qualification. The course may also be suitable as a preparation for The final Integrated Project provides • A degree (2:1 or above), in fashion or some higher level postgraduate study. students with an opportunity to apply business or sufficient relevant retail OR the range of knowledge and skills The course covers a range of vocational developed on the course to a complex • Relevant experience in the fashion knowledge and skills for students buying scenario requiring applied problem industry seeking a career in fashion buying and solving and negotiation skills. Students • A study proposal and essay. Please refer merchandising. The course develops prepare a response to a negotiation to the course specific guidance notes knowledge of both theoretical and practical problem set within a hypothetical buying issues relevant to current practice in the scenario between a clothing supplier and Exceptionally, applicants who do not UK buying and merchandising sector, retailer, working towards both team and meet these course entry requirements integrated with practical professional individual responses. may still be considered if the course team skills in communication, negotiation and judges that the application demonstrates presentation. Distinctive features of the Showing Your Work additional strengths and alternative course are the strong links with fashion All students are given the opportunity evidence. This might, for example, be buying and merchandising offices in the to profile their work online using the demonstrated by: related academic or work UK and the opportunity afforded by the Showtime section of the University and experience; the quality of the personal practical emphasis on skills negotiation in College websites - showtime.arts.ac.uk statement; a strong academic or other the final project. The pathway is structured professional reference; or a combination of into two taught units, which gives students London College of Fashion can make no these factors. a good understanding of modern buying guarantee that your work (either in sum or and merchandising management practices, in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled and a final project. in any way as part of your course. All student work appearing in College Continued /

71 Postgraduate Certificate Fashion: Buying and Merchandising

English Language Requirements Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Applications from overseas applicants any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF Further information can be found on the International Office, and if suitable will be LCF website:www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

Study Level Course Location Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate High Holborn October start Home/EU International Autumn Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode 01 Oct - 07 Dec Office or Full Time Home/EU fee Deadlines Overseas Representative £2,500 Spring October start Course Length 07 Jan - 08 Feb 09 July Deadlines 15 weeks International Fee No deadline, early Oct 2012 / Feb 2013 February start February start application is advised Start Date Spring 08 October £5,000 October & February 07 Jan - 08 February

Portfolio required February 2012 Summer No £4,435 15 April - 21 June

72 Postgraduate Certificate Fashion: Creative Pattern Cutting for the Industry

The Postgraduate Certificate in develop their own studio work. What are the Entry Requirements? Fashion provides a highly focused and Entry to this course is highly competitive: vocationally orientated period of full The second unit, Application of Advanced applicants are expected to achieve, or time study at advanced level, leading Principles of Pattern Cutting and already have, the course entry requirements to a recognised qualification in Creative Manufacture, extends established principles detailed below. Pattern Cutting. and practice and integrates theory into studio practice in greater depth. Emphasis • A degree (2:1 or above) in a fashion What will I be doing? is on research, teamwork, communication, design, design/clothing technology The course provides an understanding of analysis and problem solving within a or textiles/ fashion or have sufficient the creative process of design interpretation sample room context to interpret and relevant pattern cutting experience related to the womenswear market. match technology and technique to the in the fashion industry or equivalent This is achieved through team working, design intention. Students produce a final qualification research and analysis, the implementation body of garments, toiles and patterns for • demonstrate basic fabric knowledge, of advanced principles of pattern cutting assessment. design and interpretation, appreciation and manufacture and through personal of creative pattern cutting, creativity and development, to enhance creativity in Showing Your Work communication skills solving design problems. Students will All students are given the opportunity to • evidence of a good understanding of be working to industry standards within profile their work online using the Showtime 3D principles of design and pattern an educational environment, including section of the University and College cutting and manufacture in a portfolio of access to the Gerber and Polynest specialist websites - showtime.arts.ac.uk relevant work CAD/CAM systems for pattern cutting and production. London College of Fashion can make no • A study proposal. Please refer to the guarantee that your work (either in sum or course specific guidance notes Study is divided into two units. Exploration, in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled Analysis and Studio Practice aims to in any way as part of your course. All student Exceptionally, applicants who do not consolidate basic principles and practice, work appearing in College organised events, meet these course entry requirements explore a range of alternatives and identify catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms may still be considered if the course team strengths and weakneses in order to further of showcase, is selected by a panel of judges that the application demonstrates areas for research and specialist study. senior staff and, in some instances, external additional strengths and alternative industry judges. evidence. This might, for example, be Following an initial induction to facilities, demonstrated by: related academic or work a short skills based project establishes What Next? experience; the quality of the personal students’ levels of technical expertise. Graduates will be in a position to gain statement; a strong academic or other The lecture and workshop programme employment as pattern cutters and sample professional reference; or a combination of gives students theoretical and practical room assistants within varied levels and these factors. knowledge of pattern cutting principles, markets of the fashion industry. London manufacturing processes and relevant College of Fashion runs a number of textile technology. All these enhance the initiatives seeking placements for our possibilities of a new approach to creative students and recent graduates. pattern cutting. Alongside this, students Continued /

73 Postgraduate Certificate Fashion: Creative Pattern Cutting for the Industry

English Language Requirements Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK All classes are conducted in English. The will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. level required by the University for this Applications from overseas applicants course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in will be considered initially by the LCF Further information can be found on the any one skill. International Office, and if suitable will be LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses considered by the course team. Depending For more information, go to on the quality of your application, you may www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ be invited for the next stage of selection. englishlanguagerequirements Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate October October start Home/EU International Autumn Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required 01 Oct - 07 Dec Office or Full Time Yes Deadlines Overseas Representative Spring 09 July Course Length Course Location 07 Jan - 08 Feb Deadlines 15 weeks Mare Street Home/EU fee No deadline, early £2,500 application is advised

International Fee £4,435

74 Postgraduate Certificate Fashion: Fashion and Lifestyle Journalism

This course aims to give students a A research assignment gives you the Recent Graduates have gone onto work for working knowledge of fashion and opportunity to explore and analyse a How To Spend It, British Fashion Council, lifestyle media, as well as a professional chosen area of the lifestyle market. Practical Net A Porter, WGSN, Elle (Great Britain, practical foundation in writing skills skills and theoretical knowledge acquired Turkey), Heat, Sunday Herald (Scotland), developing vocational skills and in units one and two are put into practice Coloures magazine, Evening Standard analytical thinking. in the Major Project. This provides an magazine, Shiny Media, Momentum opportunity to produce a portfolio of PR, Reveal, Harvey Nichols, Redwood What will I be doing? journalistic work responding to your own Publishing, MTV, Flare (Canada), Grazia The course is designed for graduates and professional advancement. (Holland), Viva (Holland), Marie Claire those with appropriate industry experience (Taiwan, Ukraine). who wish to develop their career prospects Showing Your Work in the highly competitive fashion industry. It All students are given the opportunity What are the Entry Requirements? is also a suitable preparation for higher level to profile their work online using the Entry to this course is highly competitive: postgraduate study. This dynamic course Showtime section of the University and applicants are expected to achieve, or cultivates both a practical and theoretical College websites - showtime.arts.ac.uk already have, the course entry requirements understanding of fashion and lifestyle detailed below. London College of Fashion can make no journalism in the UK. With a close eye on guarantee that your work (either in sum or changing trends in contemporary lifestyle • A degree (2:1 or above) in English, media, in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled media, emphasis is placed on developing an cultural studies, fashion studies, visual in any way as part of your course. All student analytical understanding of the commercial communications, PR, design theory or work appearing in College organised events, marketplace as well as the rigours of catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms visual arts OR practical journalism. You will develop an of showcase, is selected by a panel of • have relevant and qualitative experience enhanced commercial awareness, enabling senior staff and, in some instances, external in any of the following industries: you to produce editorial material for this industry judges. fashion, interior design, architecture, specialist area. art, visual communications, music or the What Next? journalism industry The Fashion & Lifestyle Journalism Graduates will be in a position to gain • A disc or e-mailed attachments with unit introduces you to the practical employment as fashion and feature examples of relevant writing, editorial requirements of Fashion and Lifestyle writers for a wide range of fashion, or journalism work. You will also need Journalism. You will be guided through lifestyle and general interest publications to submit three headlined feature the key principles of journalism from including daily newspapers, weekend ideas. Each should be no more than 100 researching stories, developing ideas and supplements, monthly fashion magazines words. Please refer to the course specific writing in a range of styles and formats, and industry trade journals. They will guidance notes. right through to pitching and selling feature also be in a strong position to launch ideas. Fashion and Lifestyle Media looks at themselves as freelance journalists. contemporary fashion and lifestyle media. A range of guest lecturers and practitioners Continued / will give insight into their specialist markets from mainstream publications to niche, consumer and specialist, providing a contextual working knowledge of fashion and lifestyle media and its changing trends.

75 Postgraduate Certificate Fashion: Fashion and Lifestyle Journalism

Exceptionally, applicants who do not Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student meet these course entry requirements Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK may still be considered if the course team will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. judges that the application demonstrates Applications from overseas applicants additional strengths and alternative will be considered initially by the LCF Further information can be found on the evidence. This might, for example, be International Office, and if suitable will be LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses demonstrated by: related academic or work considered by the course team. Depending experience; the quality of the personal on the quality of your application, you may statement; a strong academic or other be invited for the next stage of selection. professional reference; or a combination of Following this, you may be selected for these factors. interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place. English Language Requirements All classes are conducted in English. The level required by the University for this course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in any one skill.

For more information, go to www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ englishlanguagerequirements

Study Level Course Location Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate High Holborn October start Home/EU International Autumn Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Home/EU fee 01 Oct - 07 Dec Office or Full Time Deadline Overseas Representative £2,500 Spring October start Course Length International Fee 07 Jan - 08 Feb 09 July Deadline 15 weeks No deadline, early Oct 2012 / Feb 2013 February start February start application is advised Start Date £5,000 Spring 08 October October & February 07 Jan - 08 February February 2012 Portfolio required £4,435 Summer No 15 April - 21 June

76 Postgraduate Diploma Pattern Design and Garment Technology

This course provides an innovative and These are taught by specialists in both Leading industry players such as Jaeger, relevant programme for potential and practice and theory based research, visiting Boss, Burberry and Daks have identified the practising pattern cutters and designers UAL alumni and industry leaders and need to employ individuals with the ability who need to expand their experience. professionals. to translate the design concept into reality It is designed to enhance creativity and using new technologies such as those used provide a supportive postgraduate Showing Your Work on this course. learning environment for personal and All students are given the opportunity professional development. to profile their work online using the What are the Entry Requirements? Showtime section of the University and Entry to this course is highly competitive: What will I be doing? College websites - showtime.arts.ac.uk applicants are expected to achieve, or The course has been designed after already have, the course entry requirements consultation with members of the British London College of Fashion can make no detailed below. Fashion Council to provide a platform for guarantee that your work (either in sum or Pattern Design and Garment Technologists in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled • A first degree (2:1 or above) OR who have a first degree and are looking to in any way as part of your course. All student • Equivalent qualfications further their education in a postgraduate work appearing in College organised events, • A study proposal. Please refer to the environment before either continuing their catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms course specific guidance notes. career and/or progressing onto further of showcase, is selected by a panel of postgraduate study at a higher level. senior staff and, in some instances, external Exceptionally, applicants who do not industry judges. meet these course entry requirements The course will be taught full time over may still be considered if the course team one academic year and will be offered What Next? judges that the application demonstrates in progressive units appropriate to the This course will become the only one of its additional strengths and alternative development of the product from pattern kind in the UK’s postgraduate educational evidence. This might, for example, be design and cutting through to garment sector with its main focus on creative demonstrated by: related academic or work construction. pattern design and garment technology. experience; the quality of the personal statement; a strong academic or other A blended learning strategy is used which It is anticipated that the course will also be professional reference; or a combination of combines lecture presentations, seminars relevant to those wishing to set up their these factors. and practical workshops, with self-learning own design/manufacturing companies. and reflective diaries. You will be set briefs which mimic those currently being set in The course will be structured in units the industry so as to develop portfolios in appropriate to the development of a line with industry demands. fashion product. This will not only mirror industrial practice but also offers industry In addition, interaction between subject the opportunity to take advantage of the disciplines across all postgraduate courses course by sending employees to update is promoted through a contextual studies their practical skills at an advanced level. Continued / programme where you will be exposed to a broad range of issues relevant to fashion.

77 Postgraduate Diploma Pattern Design and Garment Technology

English Language Requirements Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Applications from overseas applicants Further information can be found on the any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses International Office, and if suitable will be For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September October start Home/EU International Autumn Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required 24 Sept - 07 Dec Office or Full Time Yes Deadline Overseas Representative Spring No deadline, early Course Length Course Location 07 Jan - 15 March application is advised Deadline One year John Princes Street / No deadline, early Summer Home/EU fee application is advised Mare Street 15 April - 21 June £5,000 International Fee £8,870

78 *Subject to Validation

Masters Degrees Costume Design for Performance 80 Design Management for the Fashion Industries 82 Fashion Artefact 84 Fashion Curation 86 Fashion Design Technology (Menswear) 88 Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear) 90 Fashion Entrepreneurship 92 Fashion and the Environment 94 Fashion and Film 96 Fashion Footwear 98 Fashion Journalism 100 Fashion Media Production 102 Fashion Photography 104 Fashion Retail 106 History and Culture of Fashion 108 Strategic Fashion Marketing 110 Independent Project Mode 112 Executive Masters Business Administration (EMBA) Fashion* 114 Contact Information 116

79 MA Costume Design for Performance

The course aims to develop confident Practical experimentation is achieved The presentation of character on the and experimental practitioners who through access to the extensive technical screen is explored in depth through both will push the boundaries of the subject facilities available within the college, conceptual development and final realised of costume beyond its established expanding knowledge of the uses of design images. As part of this unit the traditional role. Taught largely on CAD, tailoring, print, knit and embroidery students prepare a short film to experiment a one to one basis, by international within costume. The costume studio in with the narrative potential of costume on practitioners, experienced teachers and John Princes Street is well equiped to film. senior researchers, this MA will nurture enable students to develop their ideas into your creative ideas about costume and realisation, and expert technical support is The Creative and Technical Exploration unit, performance. provided for students on a weekly basis which runs alongside the other two units from the beginning of the autumn term to What will I be doing? All units will include contact with the end of the spring term, allows practical You will design, realise and experiment with professionals and practitioners, such as experimentation and development of costume based performance ideas that designers, performers, writers, directors ideas through specialist workshops, and enable you to define your individual voice and specialists cutters and makers. Unit realisation of final pieces for performance. in relation to contemporary culture and one, The Performer in Time and Space, The course culminates with the Masters practice, while responding visually to the enables you to explore in depth specific Project, which offers an opportunity to relevant performance context. areas of live performance, including theatre, create collaborative work either with UK Beyond the understanding of performance dance and opera, through a speculative and or international partners, and is proposed and the role of character creation developmental investigation of worlds of and negotiated by the student. A part of through costume, the study of Costume characters and moments of performance. this project is the final public presentation Design at MA level allows you to locate which can take the form of a performance, your practice within the wider realms of This units includes a performance an installation or a short screening. contemporary culture and art, as well as laboratory, using lighting and movement, within the relevant dramatic, social and in a professional theatre space. Costume on Showing Your Work philological contexts. The relationship Film, in the spring term, focuses on costume All final year students are given the between drawing, practical realisation and for performance viewed through the opportunity to profile their work online performance, is central to the way design is camera lens, contextualising the practice using the Showtime section of the approached: ideas are developed on paper of costume design for film and television University and College websites - and through movement, as well as through within a broad cultural and artistic showtime.arts.ac.uk pattern cutting, textile printing, dyeing and perspective. surface manipulation. London College of Fashion can make no guarantee that your work (either in sum or in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled in any way as part of your course.

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What Next? What are the Entry Requirements? Selection Process MA Costume for Performance graduates Entry to this course is highly competitive: Applications from Home and EU applicants have begun to practice as designers in applicants are expected to achieve, or will be considered by the course team. both devised and text based performance, already have, the course entry requirements Applications from overseas applicants sometimes taking the collaborative detailed below. will be considered initially by the LCF performance work initiated during the International Office, and if suitable will be course further. As a result their work has • A degree in a related discipline (2:1 or considered by the course team. Depending been seen not only in London and on tour, above), equivalent professional practice on the quality of your application, you may but in major national and international OR be invited for the next stage of selection. festivals, including Prague Quadrennial, • Equivalent qualifications. Following this, you may be selected for Spill Festival and Edinburgh Fringe. interview. If you are successful at interview • A portfolio of work relevant to costume you will be offered a place. and/or related areas, which can include Graduates have also found employment scenography, fashion, fine art and drama, Students who require a Tier 4 Student as assistant designers and costume if the criteria for selection are met. Visa to study with us to complete the UK supervisors, whilst others, whose technical Immigration History Form. dexterity has proven a particular strength, • A study proposal and essay. Please refer have began to forge a path for themselves to the course specific guidance notes Further information can be found on the as experts in specific technical areas of LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses costume, such as, pattern cutting, surface Exceptionally, applicants who do not meet textiles, print and dye or fabricated, these course entry requirements may still sculptural costumes. be considered if the course team judges that the application demonstrates The course also prepares students for work additional strengths and alternative with contemporary visual artists. Graduates evidence. This might, for example, be have found work with artists, whose work demonstrated by: related academic or work borders on performance, such as Lucy Orta, experience; the quality of the personal or involves textile and surface manipulation, statement; a strong academic or other like Tracy Emin. professional reference; or a combination of these factors. Master’s graduates have an acknowledged advantage in the employment market, English Language Requirements obtaining work in a wide range of All classes are conducted in English. The vocational and academic fields related to level required by the University for this costume. Graduates will be in a position course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in to gain employment as innovators within any one skill. the fields of costume design. The MA also provides an excellent preparation for higher For more information, go to level research degrees (MPhil or PhD), www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ with an increasing number of graduates englishlanguagerequirements undertaking research in fashion related subjects, in practice or theory.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

81 MA Design Management for the Fashion Industries

This course responds to the fashion and In this context, MA Design Management The Contextual Studies unit provides retail industry demand for appropriately for the Fashion Industries covers relevant a breadth to your studies with themes educated Design Management subjects in five specialist units of study, including cultural, historical, design and specialists who can effectively apply which comprise the first stage taught global perspectives on fashion futures. The their professionalism to an organisation framework. Design Compliance, which course culminates in the Masters project or consultancy. covers key areas of Intellectual Property, on an original topic or relevant design IT & Design Management strategies management practice-based project with What will I be doing? for e-commerce, Corporate Social 12,000 word reflective report. Both of This MA programme is primarily for design Responsibility and ethical perspectives in which are proposed and negotiated by graduates who wish to enhance existing fashion. Creativity, Innovation and Product the student and developed under tutorial knowledge of Design Management and Development covers the practice of supervision. improve their employment prospects or innovation and creative problem solving, as even prepare for further fashion research- well as theories of risk analysis in product For example, previous topics have included: based postgraduate study. research and development. • A practice-based study of the B2B The knowledge gained throughout this Managing Fashion Projects explores supply chain for ranges of SME course will enable you to strategically plan, traditional project management skills in a jewellery by testing the validity of the manage and promote the use of design and fashion context. Two units are shared with range pyramid model fashion throughout a company and to all the MA Strategic Fashion Marketing course, • High-end Brands at High-Street Price: A stakeholders. these are Fashion Brand Marketing, which new trend for celebrities and designers considers the design, development and • Establishing brand equity for The effective use of design in the fashion marketing strategies of diverse fashion independent menswear designers in business will allow you to make a valuable brands and Marketing Communications, the online e-tailing environment contribution to the delivery of creative which considers new and old media ways of organisational management, fashion communicating fashion brands to different Continued / research forecasting, product development, consumer target groups. manufacturing and brand communication.

82 MA Design Management for the Fashion Industries

Showing Your Work What are the Entry Requirements? English Language Requirements All final year students are given the Entry to this course is highly competitive: All classes are conducted in English. The opportunity to profile their work online applicants are expected to achieve, or level required by the University for this using the Showtime section of the already have, the course entry requirements course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in University and College websites - detailed below. any one skill. showtime.arts.ac.uk • A good Honours degree in a related For more information, go to London College of Fashion can make no design/art discipline (2:1 or above) OR www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ guarantee that your work (either in sum or • Equivalent qualification OR englishlanguagerequirements in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled • A minimum of 3 years industrial in any way as part of your course. All student Selection Process experience at an appropriate level or an work appearing in College organised events, Applications from Home and EU applicants equivalent qualification. catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms will be considered by the course team. of showcase, is selected by a panel of senior • A study proposal and essay. Please refer Applications from overseas applicants staff and, in some instances, external to the course specific guidance notes will be considered initially by the LCF industry judges. International Office, and if suitable will be Exceptionally, applicants who do not considered by the course team. Depending What Next? meet these course entry requirements on the quality of your application, you may Graduates from this course have an may still be considered if the course team be invited for the next stage of selection. acknowledged advantage in the judges that the application demonstrates Following this, you may be selected for employment market, obtaining work in a additional strengths and alternative interview. If you are successful at interview range of fashion industry fields. The MA evidence. This might, for example, be you will be offered a place. demonstrated by: related academic or work also provides an excellent preparation Students who require a Tier 4 Student experience; the quality of the personal for higher level research degrees (MPhil Visa to study with us to complete the UK statement; a strong academic or other or PhD), with an increasing number of Immigration History Form. graduates undertaking research in fashion professional reference; or a combination of related subjects, in practice or theory or these factors. Further information can be found on the entering into education as lecturers. LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) High Holborn Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised. £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

83 MA Fashion Artefact

This provocative and original course The second unit, Research, Development What Next? was developed from our former MA and Professional Links, encourages you to Graduates from MA Fashion Artefact will Fashion Accessories course and has consolidate an area of specialism externally be in a position to gain employment as been expanded to take on board the with an industry partner into your proposed innovators within the field of fashion design material exploration and studio practice project. There is an opportunity to build or object based fashion artefacts / of leather, metal, plastic and wood. contacts with high profile national and accessories and may identify a fashion Its intention is to create supportive international companies, forging potential house, large corporate company or working environments that enable you collaborative links. Alongside this personal alternatively choose to build their own to develop and explore new methods of development, the Contextual Studies identity through the launch of their own production to create fashion artefacts unit provides breadth to your studies product/design label. Further employment that challenge and push boundaries with themes including historical and opportunities include trend prediction, in the area of fashion and lifestyle contemporary cultural, design and global stylist, illustrator and freelance designer. products. business perspectives on fashion. Master’s graduates have an acknowledged What will I be doing? The final unit comprises the negotiated advantage in the employment market, Craftsmanship is at the core of this major project:. This MA project is the obtaining work in a wide range of programme therefore we are seeking culmination of your personal ideas and vocational and academic fields related to individuals who wish to develop existing investigations towards the realization of an fashion. The MA also provides an excellent skills, and demonstrate expertise in original body of work and is showcased in a preparation for higher level research researching your chosen practice. If final exhibition. degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing your need as a practitioner is to be both number of graduates undertaking research proactive and challenging, then you are Showing Your Work in fashion related subjects, in both practice the right candidate for this exciting MA All final year students are given the and theory. course. The MA encourages creativity both opportunity to profile their work online conceptually and technically. The intensive using the Showtime section of the Continued / programme is split into three distinct University and College websites - course units. showtime.arts.ac.uk

The first unit, Creative and Technical London College of Fashion can make no Development, is designed to evaluate and guarantee that your work (either in sum or improve technical and practical skills. You in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled work individually and develop creative work in any way as part of your course. All student through a personal project. Technical and work appearing in College organised events, workshop inductions in Rapid prototype catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms technology, laser, digital and wet print, of showcase, is selected by a panel of embroidery and leather workshops senior staff and, in some instances, external introduce you to the extensive technical industry judges. facilities and specialist staff of the College.

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What are the Entry Requirements? English Language Requirements Entry to this course is highly competitive: All classes are conducted in English. The applicants are expected to achieve, or level required by the University for this already have, the course entry requirements course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in detailed below. any one skill.

• A good Honours degree in a related For more information, go to discipline for example Product Design, www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ Accessory Design, Fashion Textiles, englishlanguagerequirements Fashion Design, Jewellery Design or Millinery (ideally 2:1 or above) OR Selection Process • A minimum of 3 years industrial Applications from Home and EU applicants experience at an appropriate level or an will be considered by the course team. equivalent qualification Applications from overseas applicants will be considered initially by the LCF • A study proposal. Please refer to the International Office, and if suitable will be course specific guidance notes considered by the course team. Depending on the quality of your application, you may Related disciplines include fashion, textiles, be invited for the next stage of selection. accessories or product design Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview Exceptionally, applicants who do not you will be offered a place. meet these course entry requirements may still be considered if the course team Students who require a Tier 4 Student judges that the application demonstrates Visa to study with us to complete the UK additional strengths and alternative Immigration History Form. evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by: related academic or work Further information can be found on the experience; the quality of the personal LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses statement; a strong academic or other professional reference; or a combination of these factors.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full time) John Princes Street / Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised Golden Lane £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

85 MA Fashion Curation

MA Fashion Curation offers a unique The Contextual Studies unit provides What are the Entry Requirements? opportunity to investigate and develop breadth to your studies with themes Entry to this course is highly competitive: the specialist practice-based, critical and including cultural and historical, design and applicants are expected to achieve, or interpretative skills involved global business and perspectives on fashion already have, the course entry requirements within the discipline of fashion curation. futures. detailed below. These include displaying dress; creating ‘stories’ from objects; writing texts Showing Your Work • A good Honours degree in a related to target audiences; model-making; All final year students are given the discipline (2:1 or above) OR collecting, handling and archiving opportunity to profile their work online • a minimum of 3 years industrial garments. using the Showtime section of the experience at an appropriate level OR University and College websites - • Equivalent qualifications What will I be doing? showtime.arts.ac.uk Students will explore the policies, • A review of a dress-based exhibition, or programming and practice of exhibitions London College of Fashion can make no a catalogue. Please refer to the course and commissioning in museums, guarantee that your work (either in sum or specific guidance notes institutions and emerging territories. in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled Building upon these insights, they work in any way as part of your course. All student Exceptionally applicants who do not meet independently and as a group to curate work appearing in College organised events, these course entry requirements may still be real, hypothetical and/or virtual exhibitions. catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms considered if the course team judges that Where possible the Course Director will of showcase, is selected by a panel of the application demonstrates additional provide introductions for work placements senior staff and, in some instances, external strengths and alternative evidence. This to participate in professional practice. industry judges. might, for example, be demonstrated by: To date, students have benefitted from related academic or work experience; the placements at the Victoria & Albert What Next? quality of the personal statement; a strong Museum, Brighton Museum, the Museum of Master’s graduates have an advantage in academic or other professional reference; or London, Christie’s auction house, Selfridges; the employment market, obtaining work in a combination of these factors. Hussein Chalayan, Shirin Guild and on a wide range of vocational and academic professional collaborative exhibitions with fields related to fashion. MA Fashion Applicants should be articulate, well-read Betty Jackson and David Shilling. Curation could lead to a breadth of exit and culturally aware individuals who are profiles including Fashion or Art and Design confident in being able to contribute to Students participate in some shared Curator, Arts and Events Management contemporary debate in diverse aspects of units, which draw upon the wealth of staff Assistant and Administrator or Consultant. fashion as a cultural practice. expertise within the University and provide The MA also provides an excellent an opportunity for integrated learning. preparation for higher level research Continued / For example, The Discipline of Fashion is degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing studied with students on MA History and number of graduates undertaking research, Culture of Fashion, whilst Research Methods writing and teaching within fashion related is taught across the MA student group. subjects.

86 MA Fashion Curation

English Language Requirements Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Applications from overseas applicants any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF Further information can be found on the LCF International Office, and if suitable will be website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate October Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street / Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised High Holbron £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

87 MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear)

MA Fashion Design and Technology The MA encourages a strong Alongside this personal development, the (Menswear) provides an opportunity to interdependence between design and Contextual Studies unit provides breadth challenge clothing through technology, technology. Students are inspired to take to your studies with themes including and in the process, develop innovative risks in order to produce groundbreaking, historical, cultural, design and global techniques for mastering fashion. highly individual work. They can choose business perspectives on fashion. either to work within a commercially viable What will I be doing? market or, alternatively, they might aspire The final unit comprises the negotiated The programme aims to continue the link to become an innovator working within major project. This project is the between the impossible and the achievable the avant-garde arena. The MA encourages culmination of your personal ideas and through high and low tech craftsmanship. creativity both conceptually and technically. investigations towards the realisation of an You will challenge aesthetics, and be a The intensive programme is split into three original body of work and is showcased in a global player in the promotion of individual distinct course units. final exhibition. creativity. The first unit, Creative and Technical Showing Your Work The course offers multidisciplinary Development, is designed to evaluate and All final year students are given the framework for independent study leading improve technical and practical skills. You opportunity to profile their work online to an original body of practical or written work individually and develop creative using the Showtime section of the work, for example an innovative collection work through a personal project. Technical University and College websites - of menswear, a technological investigation and workshop inductions in CAD, tailoring, showtime.arts.ac.uk into new methods with prototypes, or a print, embroidery, corsetry, laser, leather dissertation on a design-based subject. and sonic technology that introduces you London College of Fashion can make no The concept for the final major project is to the extensive technical facilities and guarantee that your work (either in sum or proposed and negotiated by the student. specialist staff of the College. This enables in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled you to create techniques from technology in any way as part of your course. All student Menswear is becoming increasingly and in turn, innovate through design. work appearing in College organised events, important in the retail sector. The global catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms market has grown rapidly acknowledging The second unit, Research, Development of showcase, is selected by a panel of the market trend that is not set to change, and Professional Links, encourages senior staff and, in some instances, external only grow. Students on MA Fashion students to consolidate their area of industry judges. Design and Technology (Menswear) can specialism and to research into their incorporate a further specialism such proposed MA project. There is an opportunity Continued / as embroidery, knitwear, tailoring and to build contacts with high profile national innovative pattern cutting. and international companies forging potential collaborative links.

88 MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear)

What Next? Graduates from the MA Fashion Design and that the application demonstrates Masters graduates have an acknowledged Technology have gained employment as additional strengths and alternative advantage in the employment market, innovators within the broad field of fashion evidence. This might, for example, be obtaining work in a wide range of design and technology or have identified demonstrated by: related academic or work vocational and academic fields related to a fashion house, large corporate company experience; the quality of the personal fashion. The course provides the industry or alternatively choose to build their own statement; a strong academic or other with graduates who will have the capability identity through the launch of their own professional reference; or a combination of to work as part of a creative team as a design label. Further employment of these factors. colleague and an individual. The graduate graduates has included trend prediction, will have transferable skills for the creative stylist, illustrator, freelance designer or English Language Requirements industries including an understanding broad aspects of the creative industries. All classes are conducted in English. The of high levels of design, time and project level required by the University for this management, production and technical What are the Entry Requirements? course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in knowledge of types of manufacture Entry to this course is highly competitive: any one skill. supported by an aesthetic awareness and applicants are expected to achieve, or academic underpinning. already have, the course entry requirements For more information, go to detailed below. www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ The course in the past has benefited englishlanguagerequirements from constant contact with the industry. • A good Honours degree in a related External assessors and tutors, leading discipline (2:1 or above) OR Selection Process buying and merchandising teams, stylists • A minimum of 3 years industrial Applications from Home and EU applicants and photographers, journalists and editors, experience at an appropriate level OR will be considered by the course team. entrepreneurs and business consultants Applications from overseas applicants • Equivalent qualifications show an increasing interest in the emerging will be considered initially by the LCF talent the course generates. Employers • A study proposal. Please refer to the International Office, and if suitable will be include Alberta Ferretti, Alexander course specific guidance notes considered by the course team. Depending McQueen, Zac Posen, Chloe, Loewe, Pringle, on the quality of your application, you may Hussein Chalayan, Roland Mouret, Topman, Exceptionally, applicants who do not meet be invited for the next stage of selection. Savile Row Tailors, Browns Focus and these course entry requirements may still Following this, you may be selected for Harvey Nichols. be considered if the course team judges interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

Students who require a Tier 4 Student Visa to study with us to complete the UK Immigration History Form.

Further information can be found on the LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street / Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised Curtain Road £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

89 MA Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear)

MA Fashion Design and Technology The intensive programme is split into three Showing Your Work (Womenswear) provides an opportunity distinct course units. All final year students are given the to challenge clothing through opportunity to profile their work online technology, and in the process, develop The first unit, Creative and Technical using the Showtime section of the innovative techniques for mastering Development, is designed to evaluate and University and College websites - fashion. Our designers are a unique improve technical and practical skills. You showtime.arts.ac.uk force of freethinkers who accept no work individually and develop creative boundaries. work through a personal project. Technical London College of Fashion can make no and workshop inductions in CAD, tailoring, guarantee that your work (either in sum or What will I be doing? print, embroidery, corsetry, laser, leather in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled The programme aims to continue the link and sonic technology that introduces you in any way as part of your course. All student between the impossible and the achievable to the extensive technical facilities and work appearing in College organised events, through high and low tech craftsmanship. specialist staff of the College. This enables catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms You will challenge aesthetics, and be a you to create techniques from technology of showcase, is selected by a panel of global player in the promotion of individual and in turn, innovate through design. senior staff and, in some instances, external creativity. industry judges. The second unit, Research, Development The course offers multidisciplinary and Professional Links, encourages you to What Next? framework for independent study consolidate your area of specialism and to Master’s graduates have an acknowledged leading to an original body of practical or research into your proposed MA project. advantage in the employment market, written work, for example an innovative There is an opportunity to build contacts obtaining work in a wide range of collection of womenswear, a technological with high profile national and international vocational and academic fields related to investigation into new methods with companies forging potential collaborative fashion. The course provides the industry prototypes, or a dissertation on a design- links. Alongside this personal development, with graduates who will have the capability based subject. The concept for the final the Contextual Studies unit provides to work as part of a creative team as a major project is proposed and negotiated breadth to your studies with themes colleague and an individual. You will have by the student. including historical, cultural, design and transferable skills for the creative industries global business perspectives on fashion. including an understanding of high levels You can incorporate a further specialism of design, time and project management, such as embroidery, knitwear, tailoring The final unit comprises the negotiated production and technical knowledge and innovative pattern cutting. The MA major project: Development of Specialism of types of manufacture supported by encourages a strong interdependence and Project Realisation. This project is the an aesthetic awareness and academic between design and technology. Students culmination of your personal ideas and underpinning. are inspired to take risks in order to produce investigations towards the realisation of an groundbreaking, highly individual work. original body of work and is showcased in a Continued / They can choose either to work within a final exhibition. commercially viable market or, alternatively, they might aspire to become an innovator working within the avant-garde arena. The MA encourages creativity both conceptually and technically.

90 MA Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear)

The course in the past has benefited What are the Entry Requirements? This might, for example, be demonstrated from constant contact with the industry. Entry to this course is highly competitive: by: related academic or work experience; External assessors and tutors, leading applicants are expected to achieve, or the quality of the personal statement; a buying and merchandising teams, stylists already have, the course entry requirements strong academic or other professional and photographers, journalists and editors, detailed below. reference; or a combination of these factors. entrepreneurs and business consultants show an increasing interest in the emerging • A good Honours degree in a related English Language Requirements talent the course generates. International discipline (2:1 or above) or a minimum All classes are conducted in English. The employers include Alberta Ferretti, of 3 years industrial experience at an level required by the University for this Alexander McQueen, Zac Posen, Chloe, appropriate level OR course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Loewe, Pringle, Hussein Chalayan, Roland • Equivalent qualification any one skill. Mouret, Topman, Savile Row Tailors, Browns • A study proposal. Please refer to the Focus, Harvey Nichols, Topman, Savile Row For more information, go to course specific guidance notes Tailors and Browns Focus. www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ englishlanguagerequirements Graduates from MA Fashion Design Related disciplines include fashion, textiles Technology (Womenswear) have gained or product design. Selection Process employment as innovators within the broad Applications from Home and EU applicants field of fashion design and technology We are looking for individuals who can will be considered by the course team. or have identified a fashion house, large respond to challenge, are articulate and Applications from overseas applicants corporate company or alternatively choose can contribute original ideas and a keen will be considered initially by the LCF to build their own identity through the awareness of current issues in many aspects International Office, and if suitable will be launch of their own design label. of fashion. considered by the course team. Depending on the quality of your application, you may Further employment opportunities Your application should include a short be invited for the next stage of selection. include trend prediction, stylist, illustrator, essay, two references and your portfolio Following this, you may be selected for freelance designer or broad aspects of the supplied on a disc or sent electronically. Any interview. If you are successful at interview creative industries. The MA also provides pieces of work larger than A4 can be shown you will be offered a place. an excellent preparation for higher if selected for interview. level research degrees (MPhil or PhD), Students who require a Tier 4 Student with an increasing number of graduates Exceptionally applicants who do not Visa to study with us to complete the UK undertaking research in fashion related meet these course entry requirements Immigration History Form. subjects. may still be considered if the course team judges that the application demonstrates Further information can be found on the additional strengths and alternative LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses evidence.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street / Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised Curtain Road £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

91 MA Fashion Entrepreneurship

MA Fashion Entrepreneurship aims fashion industry. The challenges posed to that facilitate the entrepreneurial process to begin to address the need for start-up creative enterprises are central within small and medium enterprises. entrepreneurs who can build and topics and issues for this new course, capitalise on the existing strengths in the and students will begin to explore what Managing the Entrepreneurial UK and international fashion industries factors inhibit their growth potential, how Organisation: to ensure that the sector has the influx to minimise risk, the conditions innovation This unit aims to investigate the capabilities, of creative entrepreneurial talent it needs to flourish to support a sustained conditions and organisational environments needs to sustain growth of new fashion presence in the competitive global market that support the development of businesses. and issues surrounding managing human entrepreneurial thinking and innovative capital and blending methodologies for activity. The unit presents an integrated What will I be doing? harnessing innovative ideas in a creative and interpretative framework that presents The ethos that entrepreneurship serves environment. entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation as a catalyst for economic development as being crucially inter-related to business underpins the course philosophy. This MA is designed to break new ground and management strategy. Strengthened by London College of and close the gap between the MBA and Fashion’s unparalleled external and internal MA art and design: it aims to link creative Creating Fashion Business Concepts: industry networks, the programme aims to thinking with business thinking in order to The unit will encourage you to identify facilitate your development of innovative nurture creative and flexible entrepreneurs and explore the role of management fashion related concepts through to and creators of change. As undergraduate and strategy within ideas creation and commercialisation. This development fashion courses are now increasingly multi- innovation in the context of an increasingly is supported through collaborative disciplinary, this course provides further demanding highly saturated fashion relationships between education and study opportunities for fashion designers/ market. The unit looks to provide a holistic industry that are aligned to both 21st product developers/marketers who want understanding of innovation, linking century business and new market to initiate new business opportunities and it with opportunity analysis, branding challenges for the global fashion industry. the chance for those of you who might and strategic planning. Consideration have been working in the fashion industry of the consequences of innovation aim The programme aims to provide for several years to take the supported risk to encourage an evaluative approach to new business opportunity platforms of starting an enterprise within a managed decision making and facilitate skills as for emerging fashion entrepreneurs environment. Through mentoring from start-up entrepreneurs; risk identification who need professional management industry experts and the opportunity to and assessment techniques along with knowledge, guidance, case study models go on placement, you will be supported to methodologies for measuring success and and systematic support in the context of a perfect personal aptitudes while developing return on investment are key features. The global economy. Entrepreneurship serves the techniques and skills associated with unit will address contemporary themes in as a catalyst for economic development entrepreneurial spirit. innovation such as sustainability, ethics and globalisation and the programme will and social entrepreneurship and there enable you to develop innovative fashion Specialist units include: will be an opportunity for collaborative concepts through to commercialisation Globalisation and Entrepreneurship: working with peers from MA Fashion within this context. This unit introduces the concept of and the Environment, and the other MA entrepreneurship and opportunity programmes. The course will foster new innovation identification in the context of processes to create and deliver new value as internationalization and global economics a major driver of economic growth for the with the objective of examining the factors Continued /

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Value and Venture Creation: This could be in retail, design, experience; the quality of the personal The unit aims to encourage you to explore production or media. statement; a strong academic or other the commercial parameters, techniques • Working in Research and Development professional reference; or a combination of and tools of business planning. The unit in a leadership/management role within these factors. looks to provide a focused understanding service and design-led industries of an innovation within a particular fashion English Language Requirements • A leadership/management role within an industry context or environment. This unit All classes are conducted in English. The existing business or group explores the concept of feasibility and the level required by the University for this role of the business environment, with the • Establishing a new business venture course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in objective of creating a plan to operationalise any one skill. the new fashion concept. This unit will What are the Entry Requirements? address the themes of sales forecasting, Entry to this course is highly competitive: For more information, go to return on investment, risk analysis and applicants are expected to achieve, or www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ risk management and start-up financing already have, the course entry requirements englishlanguagerequirements requirements to create new ventures. detailed below. Selection Process • A good Honours degree (2:1 or above) Or Applications from Home and EU applicants Showing Your Work • Equivalent qualifications with a will be considered by the course team. All final year students are given the minimum of one year experience in the Applications from overseas applicants opportunity to profile their work online creative sector OR will be considered initially by the LCF using the Showtime section of the • a minimum of five years appropriate International Office, and if suitable will be University and College websites - industrial experience. considered by the course team. Depending showtime.arts.ac.uk • A study proposal and/or essay. Please on the quality of your application, you may London College of Fashion can make no refer to the course specific guidance be invited for the next stage of selection. guarantee that your work (either in sum or notes Following this, you may be selected for in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled interview. If you are successful at interview in any way as part of your course. All student you will be offered a place. An appetite for challenge and creative work appearing in College organised events, flexible thinking with a willingness to catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms Students who require a Tier 4 Student build on proven experience through a of showcase, is selected by a panel of Visa to study with us to complete the UK pro-active approach. You will aspire to senior staff and, in some instances, external Immigration History Form. a leadership role, and have the ability to industry judges. generate, recognise and develop ideas and Further information can be found on the LCF What Next? the acumen to translate ideas into viable website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses opportunities. Examples of Expected Graduate Destinations: Exceptionally applicants who do not meet • A role within a creative service based these course entry requirements may still industry both real and virtual; start up be considered if the course team or mature An entrepreneurial role in an existing organisation judges that the application demonstrates • A business development role using additional strengths and alternative entrepreneurial thinking to develop and evidence. This might, for example, be extend business through innovation. demonstrated by: related academic or work

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300 *Home/EU applicants only

93 MA Fashion and the Environment

The course reflects and contributes to new systems thinking across the fashion supervised self-directed study. an evolving world, nurturing ingenuity lifecycle. and inventiveness to create Showing Your Work groundbreaking new work. It will Opportunity is offered via links to All final year students are given the meet the needs of graduates who have technical facilities and key staff expertise opportunity to profile their work online identified a specific interest within in both new technological developments using the Showtime section of the fashion, who wish to explore and deepen such as 2D and 3D digital design, body University and College websites - their knowledge and expertise whilst scanning technology, IT development in showtime.arts.ac.uk engaging in a holistic, interdisciplinary, CAD/CAM for pattern cutting, lay planning multi levelled approach towards design and production as well as digital print London College of Fashion can make no for sustainability. technologies as part of the College ethos guarantee that your work (either in sum or of integrating advanced technologies in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled What will I be doing? with traditional processes of fashion in any way as part of your course. All student The course offers both recent design, development and production to work appearing in College organised events, graduates and industry professionals provide sustainable development in the catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms the opportunity to scope out New fashion industry. of showcase, is selected by a panel of Perspectives on Fashion in unit one, an senior staff and, in some instances, external application of these themes through Links to eminent research staff working industry judges. Sustainable Solutions in unit two within in this area within the college provides an industry context, resulting in a focus on insightful opportunities to expand your What Next? an individually negotiated programme of own areas of research and development. MA Fashion and the Environment graduates study (theory based and/or practical), the apply their skills in a multitude of ways. Master’s Project which responds creatively The identity of the course is defined by its Recent graduate profiles include setting to the opportunities and necessities of collaborative approach and interdisciplinary up a shared space for design, make and sustainable fashion development. nature. The mutual learning opportunity participation: ‘Here today, Here Tomorrow.’ engendered by the rich and diverse One group of graduates formed a network The course responds to the significant experiences of students brings a synergy to create this business, including one industry, consumer and contemporary into the course environment. Links with graduate who is continuing her studies at demand for informed future visioning other Universities and industry both PhD level alongside the business. Other specialists who can effectively apply nationally and internationally are inbuilt graduates are working at various levels professional knowledge and skills related into the programme through visiting of the industry in design and strategy to sustainably sound fashion development lectures, tutors and industry projects as well positions, one has recently gained an in the workplace. You will critically as through the links with the Centre for award from Deutsche Bank to develop examine the concept of sustainability, her own work. Two of last year’s graduates sustainable design and development, Sustainable Fashion and the support of the achieved world recognition through exploring the major ecological, cultural Fashion Business Resource Studio. awards, at the Earth Awards and The and social dimensions of our current The masters’ framework enables a cross- Observer Ethical Awards. situation, practices and processes of the fertilisation of ideas across the courses fashion industry relating these to consumer through Contextual studies, prior to the behaviour and consumption relevant to the development of the proposal for your final contemporary global fashion industries. project or dissertation This framework Design led solutions are then developed provides a supportive environment for the through either practical experimentation, negotiation of your research led Masters technical or theoretical approaches to project individually developed through Continued /

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What are the Entry Requirements? English Language Requirements Entry to this course is highly competitive: All classes are conducted in English. The applicants are expected to achieve, or level required by the University for this already have, the course entry requirements course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in detailed below. any one skill.

• A good Honours degree in a related For more information, go to discipline (2:1 or above) OR www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ • A minimum of 3 years industrial englishlanguagerequirements experience at an appropriate level OR Selection Process • Equivalent qualifications Applications from Home and EU applicants • A study proposal and essay. Please refer will be considered by the course team. to the course specific guidance notes Applications from overseas applicants will be considered initially by the LCF Exceptionally applicants who do not International Office, and if suitable will be meet these course entry requirements considered by the course team. Depending may still be considered if the course team on the quality of your application, you may judges that the application demonstrates be invited for the next stage of selection. additional strengths and alternative Following this, you may be selected for evidence. This might, for example, be interview. If you are successful at interview demonstrated by: related academic or work you will be offered a place. experience; the quality of the personal Students who require a Tier 4 Student statement; a strong academic or other Visa to study with us to complete the UK professional reference; or a combination of Immigration History Form. these factors. Further information can be found on the LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

95 MA Fashion and Film

This MA will allow you to study the Pamela Church Gibson, Course Director, has What Next? theoretical aspects of the subject been involved in all these activities, recently Masters students have an acknowledged while at the same time gain an curating and opening the Film and Fashion advantage in the employment market, understanding of the practical nature season at the Cinemateket obtaining work in a wide range of of costume design. in Oslo (July 2007). vocational and academic fields related to the fashion and film industries. This MA also What will I be doing? Contextual Studies are common across provides excellent preparation for higher It will provide academic progression for LCF’s MA framework and will enable you to level research degrees (MPhil or PhD), students from a wide range of fashion, work alongside students and concepts from with an increasing number of graduates cultural studies and film courses within other disciplines. In addition, you will also undertaking research in fashion related University of the Arts London and others. have the opportunity to learn and socialise subjects in practice or theory or entering It is designed to bridge the gap between through a regular International Film Club. education as lecturers. undergraduate provision and research in This encourages a better understanding this area. The course is informed by both and analysis of text, image and music, other What are the Entry Requirements? practice-based and scholarly research and cultures narrative and genre styles. Entry to this course is highly competitive: includes a strong taught component. applicants are expected to achieve, or Showing Your Work already have, the course entry requirements The expertise and specialisms of the All final year students are given the detailed below. permanent staff at LCF will be augmented opportunity to profile their work online by a programme of visiting speakers/ using the Showtime section of the • A good Honours degree in a related practitioners who are engaged in University and College websites - showtime. discipline (2:1 or above) OR various aspects of pertinent practice and arts.ac.uk • A minimum of 3 years industrial production. LCF can provide not only experience at an appropriate level OR theoretical input but also unique insight London College of Fashion can make no • Equivalent qualifications into practice-based work in costume design guarantee that your work (either in sum or and making. in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled • A study proposal. Please refer to the in any way as part of your course. All student course specific guidance notes Whilst there are a number of MA courses work appearing in College organised events, in Film Studies, this is a unique course in catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms Exceptionally applicants who do not meet its combination of the study of fashion of showcase, is selected by a panel of these course entry requirements may still be and film. For the past twenty years senior staff and, in some instances, external considered if the course team judges that there has been a growing interest in this industry judges. the application demonstrates additional interdisciplinary subject area. There have strengths and alternative evidence. This been various international fashion and film might, for example, be demonstrated by: festivals, starting with the Florence Biennale related academic or work experience; the in 1998, which involved all the leading quality of the personal statement; a strong Italian designers and was sponsored by the academic or other professional reference; or Versace family amongst ohers. a combination of these factors.

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English Language Requirements Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Applications from overseas applicants Further information can be found on the LCF any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses International Office, and if suitable will be For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

97 MA Fashion Footwear

MA Fashion Footwear provides an The second unit, Research, Development What Next? opportunity to challenge footwear and Professional Links, encourages you Master’s graduates have an acknowledged design and manufacture through to consolidate an area of specialism with advantage in the employment market, both new technology and by hand an industry partner and to develop this obtaining work in a wide range of craftsmanship; in the process, collaboration into your studio practice. vocational and academic fields related to developing innovative techniques for The opportunity to build contacts with fashion. Graduates from the MA Fashion mastering fashioned footwear. high profile national and international framework will be in a position to gain companies forging potential collaborative employment as innovators within the fields What will I be doing? links. Alongside this personal development, of fashion design and technology, fashion The programme aims to continue the link the Contextual Studies unit provides communications, or management and between the impossible and the achievable, breadth to your studies with themes marketing for the fashion industries. to challenge aesthetics, and be a global including historical, cultural, design and player in the promotion of individual global business perspectives on fashion. The MA also provides an excellent creativity. preparation for higher level research The final unit comprises the negotiated degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing MA Fashion Footwear encourages a strong major project: Development of Specialism number of graduates undertaking research interdependence between design and and Project Realisation. This MA project is in fashion related subjects, in practice technology. You will be inspired to take the culmination of your personal ideas and or theory or entering into education as risks in order to produce groundbreaking, investigations towards the realisation of an lecturers. highly individual work. You will be able to original body of work and is showcased in a choose either to work within a commercially final exhibition. Graduates from MA Fashion Footwear will viable market or, alternatively, aspire to be in a position to gain employment as become an innovator working within the Showing Your Work innovators within the broad field of Fashion avant-garde arena. The course encourages All final year students are given the Footwear Design and Technology and creativity both conceptually and technically. opportunity to profile their work online may identify with a fashion house, large The intensive programme is split into three using the Showtime section of the corporate company or alternatively choose distinct course units. University and College websites - to build their own identity through the showtime.arts.ac.uk launch of their own design label. Further The first unit, Creative and Technical employment opportunities include trend Development, is designed to evaluate and London College of Fashion can make no prediction, stylist, illustrator and freelance improve technical and practical skills. You guarantee that your work (either in sum or designer. will work individually and develop both in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled innovative and creative work through a in any way as part of your course. All student personal project. Technical workshop and work appearing in College organised events, inductions in laser printing, etching, digital catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms and wet print, digital embroidery introduce of showcase, is selected by a panel of you to the extensive technical facilities and senior staff and, in some instances, external Continued / specialist staff of the College. industry judges.

98 MA Fashion Footwear

What are the Entry Requirements? We are looking for creative & provocative Selection Process Entry to this course is highly competitive: individuals who can respond to a challenge, Applications from Home and EU applicants applicants are expected to achieve, or are articulate and can contribute original will be considered by the course team. already have, the course entry requirements ideas and a keen awareness of current Applications from overseas applicants detailed below. issues in many aspects of fashion Footwear will be considered initially by the LCF design. We aim to recruit students who International Office, and if suitable will be • An Honours degree in a related discipline demonstrate creativity to a high level, with considered by the course team. Depending either BA or Diploma in Footwear Design both commitment and energy, and who on the quality of your application, you may (2:1 or above) OR will strive for success within the highly be invited for the next stage of selection. • A minimum of 3 years industrial competitive fashion footwear industry. Following this, you may be selected for experience at an appropriate level OR interview. If you are successful at interview Equivalent qualification English Language Requirements you will be offered a place. All classes are conducted in English. The • A study proposal. Please refer to the level required by the University for this Students who require a Tier 4 Student course specific guidance notes course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Visa to study with us to complete the UK any one skill. Immigration History Form. Exceptionally applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements For more information, go to Further information can be found on the may still be considered if the course team www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses judges that the application demonstrates englishlanguagerequirements 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.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street / Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised Golden Lane £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

99 MA Fashion Journalism

MA Fashion Journalism is unique in its The remaining unit focuses on cultural What Next? merging of cultural theory with fashion studies, Approaches to Fashion develops Master’s graduates have an acknowledged journalism. It is a multidisciplinary a critical understanding of a range of advantage in the employment market, framework for independent study that academic and cultural writings and is based obtaining work in a wide range of leads to an original body of written and/ on student led seminars. vocational and academic fields related to or visual work. The Contextual Studies unit provides fashion. Previous MA Fashion Journalism breadth to your studies with themes graduates are now working in areas such What will I be doing? including cultural, historical, design and as magazine and newspaper journalism, You can choose to position your aspirations global business perspectives on fashion magazine styling and image making, and your work on a spectrum from media futures and combines the talents of the lecturing in cultural studies and researching journalism to theoretical study, for example: whole MA group. During the second stage and developing concepts for television. a dissertation on the presentation of fashion of the course, you will conceive and realise on television; a book surveying the fashion a major project or dissertation under the The MA also provides an excellent industry in Canada; a new concept for a supervision of designated tutors. preparation for higher level research fashion magazine; a cultural analysis of the degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing current position of masculinity in society. Showing Your Work number of graduates undertaking All final year students are given the research in fashion related subjects, The course aims to develop highly articulate opportunity to profile their work online in practice or theory or entering into and aware fashion commentators who have using the Showtime section of the education as lecturers. sound research ability and strong written University and College websites - and visual communication skills. Cultural showtime.arts.ac.uk What are the Entry Requirements? theory and journalism strands run in parallel Entry to this course is highly competitive: through the first stage of the course. Three London College of Fashion can make no applicants are expected to achieve, or of the four pathway units are focused on the guarantee that your work (either in sum or already have, the course entry requirements practice of journalism, a key feature being in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled detailed below. visiting speakers from industry. in any way as part of your course. All student work appearing in College organised events, • A good Honours degree in a related Understanding Writing introduces students catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms discipline (2:1 or above) OR to a range of media practice and develops of showcase, is selected by a panel of • A minimum of 3 years industrial writing skills. The Rationale of Publishing senior staff and, in some instances, external experience at an appropriate level Or focuses on a variety of media markets and industry judges. Equivalent qualifications the development of original concepts • An essay. Please refer to the course including market research, production and specific guidance notes publishing skills. The third practical unit, Beyond the Grid, specifically focuses on magazine design, combining vocational Related disciplines include media studies, computer design skills together with a cultural studies, English, fashion, textiles, historical and theoretical overview of sociology, philosophy or other relevant magazine design - past, present and future. humanities subjects.

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Applicants should be articulate, able to English Language Requirements Students who require a Tier 4 Student respond to a challenge, contribute original All classes are conducted in English. The Visa to study with us to complete the UK ideas and have a keen awareness of level required by the University for this Immigration History Form. current issues in many aspects of fashion. course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Further information can be found on the Alternatively you must have at least three any one skill. LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses years professional experience in journalism or other relevant area at an appropriate For more information, go to level, and demonstrate a good command of www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ written English. englishlanguagerequirements

Exceptionally applicants who do not Selection Process meet these course entry requirements Applications from Home and EU applicants may still be considered if the course team will be considered by the course team. judges that the application demonstrates Applications from overseas applicants additional strengths and alternative will be considered initially by the LCF evidence. This might, for example, be International Office, and if suitable will be demonstrated by: related academic or work considered by the course team. Depending experience; the quality of the personal on the quality of your application, you may statement; a strong academic or other be invited for the next stage of selection. professional reference; or a combination of Following this, you may be selected for these factors. interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* No Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

101 MA Fashion Media Production

Characterised by a multi-disciplinary, You will cover the following units Depending on your chosen focus, you holistic ethos, MA Fashion Media throughout the course: might graduate as a film maker, internet Production aims to stimulate and designer, stylist, photographer, curator, art cultivate fashion communicators of the • MA Project Proposal director or multi-dimensional journalist. twenty first century. • Contextual Studies What are the Entry Requirements? • Fashion Futures What will I be doing? Entry to this course is highly competitive: Reflecting a shift in the fashion industries • Fashion Media Laboratory applicants are expected to achieve, or demands for multi-skilled creatives, this already have, the course entry requirements course bridges a gap between primary Showing your Work detailed below. disciplines such as journalism and All final year students are given the photography as well as encompassing opportunity to profile their work online • An honours degree (2:1 or above) in a digital and new media practices to using the Showtime section of the related area such as fashion, journalism, encourage reflective practice, fresh University and College websites - design or photography who intends to responses and innovative solutions within showtime.arts.ac.uk specialise and focus on a specific area Fashion Media Production. within fashion communication or an London College of Fashion can make no equivalent qualification. As future fashion podcasters, film-makers, guarantee that your work (either in sum or • A mature applicant with the above web-site editors or creators, fashion in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled degree OR equivalent industry forecasters, broadcasters, stylists or sound in any way as part of your course. All student experience, looking to refocus their artists, you will work with a repertoire of work appearing in College organised events, career or reposition themselves in communicative and interpretive tools catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms industry including text, image, sound, film and of showcase, is selected by a panel of • Study proposal and essay. Please refer to digital technology to question industry senior staff and, in some instances, external the course specific guidance notes conventions, processes and practices. industry judges.

MA Fashion Media Production is an industry What Next? Exceptionally applicants who do not meet facing course and aims to incorporate a On successful completion of the MA in these course entry requirements may still be range of professional practitioners within its Fashion Media Production, graduates will considered if the course team judges that units. You will be encouraged to combine be able to establish their own independent the application demonstrates additional your course with industry placements practices or capable of working within a strengths and alternative evidence. This appropriate to your study. range of professional fashion environments. might, for example, be demonstrated by: You will be equipped with the critical, related academic or work experience; the professional and creative skills required to quality of the personal statement; a strong flourish in a range of industry environments. academic or other professional reference; or a combination of these factors.

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English Language Requirements Selection Process All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Applications from overseas applicants any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF International Office, and if suitable will be For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

Students who require a Tier 4 Student Visa to study with us to complete the UK Immigration History Form.

Further information can be found on the LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) High Holborn Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 (Part Time)* International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec £3,750 per year (Part £13,300 Time)*

103 MA Fashion Photography

MA Fashion Photography has a As a student on the MA Fashion The course is currently the only one of its distinctive philosophy and structure and Photography, a combination of theoretical kind in Europe and it is located within easy remains based essentially on practice, as and practical study will lead you to a reach of some of the finest galleries in the opposed to theory. self-negotiated project or final written world. Both of these realities furnish the dissertation. Individual units will course with its unique character and mirror What will I be doing? consider the context in which the fashion the society within which we live. The course explores the rhetoric of photograph is seen, and the constructed fashion photographic production and spectacle of the fashion image. Showing Your Work contextualises theory and practice All final year students are given the within fine art, popular culture and mass Fashion Spectacle examines and opportunity to profile their work online media. Through photographic practice, critically reflects on the nature and using the Showtime section of the you will examine social, cultural and construction of the staged moment and University and College websites - showtime. critical issues involved in the practice the communication of narrative through arts.ac.uk of fashion photography and the styling, lighting, location and art direction. impact and construction of the fashion Project work will create a fashion image London College of Fashion can make no image as a spectacle. In broad terms, through to post-production. guarantee that your work (either in sum or it is a multidisciplinary framework for in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled independent study leading to an original The context in which the fashion image in any way as part of your course. All student body of photographic or written work appears - gallery/museum/fashion work appearing in College organised events, proposed and negotiated by you. magazine/online - and the transience of the catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms fashion image are examined. The Fashion of showcase, is selected by a panel of The course is divided almost equally Catalyst is an inspirational unit including senior staff and, in some instances, external between a structured programme of Visual a wide range of visiting professionals and industry judges. Seminars and Work Reviews. practitioners talking about their work - art directors, photographers, film director, What Next? A great emphasis is placed not only upon show producer (theatre/catwalk). It gives Master’s graduates have an acknowledged the photograph itself but also with the an overview of potential roles and future advantage in the employment market, thought processes that came to form it, development. In Future Chic students obtaining work in a wide range of together with individualism for the students identify issues around the power and vocational and academic fields related to themselves in their approach to picture influence of the fashion photographic fashion. The MA also provides an excellent making. This in turn encourages a personal image and develop their personal preparation for higher level research mode of working that will inform a final photographic practice. The unit is designed degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing body of work that forms both its Major to function as an incubator for ideas or the number of graduates undertaking research Project and ultimately the final public major project development. in fashion related subjects, in practice or exhibition. theory or entering education as lecturers.

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What are the Entry Requirements? Exceptionally applicants who do not Selection Process Entry to this course is highly competitive: meet these course entry requirements Applications from Home and EU applicants applicants are expected to achieve, or may still be considered if the course team will be considered by the course team. already have, the course entry requirements judges that the application demonstrates Applications from overseas applicants detailed below. additional strengths and alternative will be considered initially by the LCF evidence. This might, for example, be International Office, and if suitable will be • A good Honours degree in a related demonstrated by: related academic or work considered by the course team. Depending discipline (2:1 or above) OR experience; the quality of the personal on the quality of your application, you may • A minimum of 3 years industrial statement; a strong academic or other be invited for the next stage of selection. experience at an appropriate level OR professional reference; or a combination of Following this, you may be selected for these factors. interview. If you are successful at interview • Equivalent qualifications you will be offered a place. • A study proposal. Please refer to the English Language Requirements Students who require a Tier 4 Student course specific guidance notes All classes are conducted in English. The Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this Immigration History Form. We are looking for individuals who course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in can respond to challenge, are articulate any one skill. Further information can be found on the and can contribute original ideas and a LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses keen awareness of current issues in many For more information, go to If you are accepted onto the course you aspects of fashion. You must have a first www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ will be required to pay a minimal materials degree in a subject relevant to fashion englishlanguagerequirements fee of £120 (£60 for part time students) on photography, and be able to demonstrate enrolment. Whilst on the course you are a comprehensive knowledge of fashion able to utilise a high volume of materials in photography. Alternatively you must order to support the developmental and have at least three years professional experimental nature of the activities and experience in a relevant area at an projects you will undertake to create your appropriate level. We welcome individual photographic portfolio which applications from mature students. you can then use to enter the industry.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street / Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised Lime Grove £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

105 MA Fashion Retail

MA Fashion Retail aims to stimulate Showing Your Work What are the Entry Requirements? creative solutions for multi-channel All final year students are given the Entry to this course is highly competitive: fashion retailing, and to exploit the opportunity to profile their work online applicants are expected to achieve, or design and communication potential of using the Showtime section of the already have, the course entry requirements the physical and virtual store. University and College websites - detailed below. showtime.arts.ac.uk What will I be doing? • A BA (Hons) degree (2:1 or above) in any Reflecting a shift in the fashion industry’s London College of Fashion can make no subject but including fashion or business demands for a multi-skilled workforce, guarantee that your work (either in sum or in the creative industries, intending this course bridges a gap between in part) will be shown, exhibited or profiled to specialise and focus on a specific retail disciplines (notably marketing in any way as part of your course. All student area within fashion retail or fashion management), information and work appearing in College organised events, communication OR communication technologies (ICT), and catwalk shows, exhibitions and other forms • A mature applicant with above degree design encompassing digital and new of showcase, is selected by a panel of OR equivalent industry experience, media practices to encourage interactive senior staff and, in some instances, external looking to refocus their career or communications and innovative solutions industry judges. reposition themselves in industry OR within Fashion Retail. • An international applicant with a 2:1 What Next? first degree in any subject but including Students will be able to combine cutting- On successful completion of the MA in fashion or business in the creative edge media with retail formats and to Fashion Retail, graduates will actively industries, intending to specialise and develop methodologies for fashion retail. contribute to the development of new retail focus on a specific area within fashion environments. They will be equipped with communication MA Fashion Retail will be industry facing the critical, professional and creative skills and aims to incorporate a range of required to flourish in a range of different • Study proposal and essay. Please refer to professional practitioners within its units. sectors within the retail industry from start- the course specific guidance notes Students will be encouraged to combine up businesses to multi-national fashion their course with industry placements if retailers and luxury brands. We welcome applications from this relevant and appropriate to their study. The course is a creative, postgraduate mature students. There is a great deal of scope for industry course that will value strong research lead projects, sponsorship and Knowledge and practice enabling some graduates to Exceptionally applicants who do not meet Transfer Partnerships. develop and further their academic lives these course entry requirements may still be through Research Degrees. considered if the course team judges that the application 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.

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English Language Requirements Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Applications from overseas applicants any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF Further information can be found on the International Office, and if suitable will be LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Yes Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) High Holborn Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

107 MA History and Culture of Fashion

MA History and Culture of Fashion Fashion in the Marketplace examines All student work appearing in College offers a unique opportunity for you to representation, promotion and selling organised events, catwalk shows, investigate fashion as a practice, object of fashion. The Substance of Fashion exhibitions and other forms of showcase, and representation in the modern investigates the design and production is selected by a panel of senior staff and, in period. of clothing through a material culture some instances, external industry judges. approach. The units assist students in What will I be doing? formulating ideas for the study of objects, What Next? It encourages imaginative and critical primary sources and material published Master’s graduates have an advantage in responses to the latest and most pressing across a variety of disciplines relevant to the employment market, obtaining work in issues facing fashion studies, while the current academic study of fashion. The a wide range of vocational and academic equipping you with the skills and the Contextual Studies unit is offered to all MA fields related to fashion. Previous Graduates confidence to undertake substantial and students to provide breadth to your studies of LCF’s History and Culture of Fashion have self-directed research projects, representing and addresses a variety of themes, including progressed to lecturing in art and design in the latest thinking in the field. Many of the cultural, historical, design and global Europe and America, fashion curation and tutors and guest lecturers you will meet on business perspectives on fashion futures. archival archival work, journalism, styling, this course are the very people who have Supporting the development of students’ and retail consultancy, as well as further helped to define the field and assure its work is the Project Proposal unit covering research for the PhD. The MA provides legitimacy within the college. the disciplines underpinning all research preparation for research degrees (MPhil work on the course. You are encouraged or PhD), with an increasing number of The course acquaints you with a range to take fresh approaches to their choice graduates undertaking research in fashion of practices, approaches and issues that of topic and research methodolgies. The related subjects, in practice or theory or will inform your final dissertation project. course culminates in a Masters project on entering into education as lecturers. Approaches to Contemporary Fashion an original topic, proposed and negotiated surveys the key theoretical work related by you and developed under tutorial What are the Entry Requirements? to fashion to help you develop a critical supervision. Entry to this course is highly competitive: understanding of a range of academic and applicants are expected to achieve, or cultural writings. The Discipline of Fashion Showing Your Work already have, the course entry requirements examines approaches and directions All final year students are given the detailed below. in academic writing on fashion and its opportunity to profile their work online cultures, looking at how various academic using the Showtime section of the • A good honours degree in a related disciplines have influenced this vibrant field. University and College websites - showtime. discipline (2:1 or above) OR Both these units are shared with students arts.ac.uk London College of Fashion can • An equivalent qualification. from other MA courses and provide an make no guarantee that your work (either in • A study proposal and essay. Please refer opportunity for integrated learning. sum or in part) will be shown, exhibited or to the course specific guidance notes profiled in any way as part of your course.

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108 MA History and Culture of Fashion

Related disciplines Fashion, Film, History, English Language Requirements Selection Process Sociology and other humanties subjects. All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Applicants will need to show a good range level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. of research skills. We welcome applications course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Applications from overseas applicants from mature students. any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF International Office, and if suitable will be Exceptionally applicants who do not For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending meet these course entry requirements www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may may still be considered if the course team englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. judges that the application demonstrates Following this, you may be selected for additional strengths and alternative interview. If you are successful at interview evidence. This might, for example, be you will be offered a place. demonstrated by: related academic or work Students who require a Tier 4 Student experience; the quality of the personal Visa to study with us to complete the UK statement; a strong academic or other Immigration History Form. professional reference; or a combination of these factors. Further information can be found on the LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* No Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) John Princes Street Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

109 MA Strategic Fashion Marketing

MA Strategic Fashion Marketing All units are assessed by a mix of academic What Next? provides a learning environment in papers and presentations. LCF Master’s graduates have an which business graduates can develop The Contextual Studies unit provides advantage in the employment market, both creative and strategic skills in a breadth to your studies with themes obtaining work in a wide range of fashion marketing and management. including cultural, historical, design and vocational and academic fields related to global perspectives on fashion futures. fashion. The MA also provides an excellent What will I be doing? preparation for research degrees (MPhil The course has an established record of The course culminates in a Dissertation on or PhD), with an increasing number of recruiting high calibre international and an original topic, which is proposed and graduates undertaking research in fashion home/EU students who predominately negotiated by you and developed under related subjects, in practice or theory or go on to develop successful middle tutorial supervision. For example, previous entering into education as lecturers. management fashion marketing careers topics have included: across the fashion industry spectrum. What are the Entry Requirements? Fashion marketing has a major contribution • ‘An investigation into the interrelation Entry to this course is highly competitive: to make to business success in the ever- dynamics of Chinese cultural values and applicants are expected to achieve, or changing global and domestic marketplace. consumer preferences in store image already have, the course entry requirements Understanding the product/market and attributes’ detailed below. consumer complexity, which now prevails, • ‘The effect of country stereotyping requires innovative strategies, business on UK consumer attitudes towards • A good Honours degree in a related models and tactics. contemporary Indian High-Fashion’ discipline (2:1 or above) OR • ‘Building competitive advantage within • A minimum of 3 years industrial In this context, MA Strategic Fashion the Turkish apparel manufacture through experience at an appropriate level OR Marketing covers relevant subjects in four Value Chain configurations.’ • Equivalent qualifications units of study, which comprise the first stage of the taught framework. Fashion • A study proposal and essay. Please refer Brand Marketing considers the design, Showing Your Work to the course specific guidance notes development and marketing strategies of All final year students are given the diverse fashion brands; Fashion Business opportunity to profile their work online Exceptionally applicants who do not meet Strategy examines a range of concepts for using the Showtime section of the these course entry requirements may still be developing appropriate business models in University and College websites - showtime. considered if the course team judges that fashion companies. arts.ac.uk London College of Fashion the application demonstrates additional can make no guarantee that your work strengths and alternative evidence. This Marketing Communications considers new (either in sum or in part) will be shown, might, for example, be demonstrated by: and old media ways of communicating exhibited or profiled in any way as part of related academic or work experience; the fashion brands to different consumer your course. All student work appearing in quality of the personal statement; a strong target groups. International Marketing College organised events, catwalk shows, academic or other professional reference; or and Retailing Strategies examines case exhibitions and other forms of showcase, a combination of these factors. studies of successful international fashion is selected by a panel of senior staff and, in corporations in different global markets some instances, external industry judges. Continued / and contexts.

110 MA Strategic Fashion Marketing

English Language Requirements Selection Process Students who require a Tier 4 Student All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Visa to study with us to complete the UK level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. Immigration History Form. course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Applications from overseas applicants Further information can be found on the any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses International Office, and if suitable will be For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. Following this, you may be selected for interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place.

*Home/EU applicants only

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* No Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length Course Location 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) High Holborn Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised £7,500 (Full Time) Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

111 MA Independent Project Mode

An individual programme is devised for Research and Development will What Next? each student either from the available re-examine and consolidate the initial Master’s graduates have an acknowledged units or by personal independent study project into a final project proposal. Work advantage in the employment market, with a designated supervisor. undertaken here will strengthen the project obtaining work in a wide range of rationale and develop an appropriate vocational and academic fields related to What will I be doing? methodology to carry out the work, and fashion. Graduates from the MA Fashion An interdisciplinary framework for may include gaining additional practical framework will be in a position to gain independent study leading to an original or technical skills, or researching the employment as innovators within the fields body of practical and/or written work theoretical context and/or market for the of fashion design and technology, fashion proposed and negotiated by the student. study. You will have the opportunity to communications, or management and Previous examples of projects include: interact with the whole MA group within marketing for the fashion industries. The the Contextual Studies unit which provides MA also provides an excellent preparation • a self-teaching computer based course breadth, with themes including cultural, for higher level research degrees (MPhil for independent study of pattern historical, design and global business or PhD), with an increasing number of cutting; perspectives on fashion futures. graduates undertaking research in fashion • concept for a universal wardrobe across related subjects. cultural boundaries; In the Project Realisation phase, the project is developed to a high standard MA by Independent Project Mode is of • The Secret Life of Clothes - a study of and, depending on its scale, may be fully great value to academics and practitioners responses to prior history of clothing; complete or sufficiently developed to be wishing to develop their personal research • an interactive teaching and learning completed beyond the Masters. and enhance their teaching career. package for introducing students to the modern practice of embroidery; Showing Your Work What are the Entry Requirements? • a dissertation on an ethical implication of All final year students are given the Entry to this course is highly competitive: sourcing material for footwear. opportunity to profile their work online applicants are expected to achieve, or using the Showtime section of the already have, the course entry requirements The proposed topic must fall within University and College websites - showtime. detailed below. or across the subject areas of the MA arts.ac.uk London College of Fashion Framework, whose interdisciplinary nature can make no guarantee that your work • A good Honours degree in a related creates an ideal framework for original ideas (either in sum or in part) will be shown, discipline (2:1 or above) OR to come to fruition. exhibited or profiled in any way as part of • A minimum of 3 years industrial your course. All student work appearing in experience at an appropriate level OR College organised events, catwalk shows, You will be able to negotiate your own • Equivalent qualifications individual programme, involving a exhibitions and other forms of showcase, selection from available units currently is selected by a panel of senior staff and, in Continued / offered on the MA as appropriate to your some instances, external industry judges. project, or an agreed area of contextual or practical research.

112 MA Independent Project Mode

Exceptionally applicants who do not English Language Requirements Selection Process meet these course entry requirements All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants may still be considered if the course team level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. judges that the application demonstrates course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in Applications from overseas applicants additional strengths and alternative any one skill. will be considered initially by the LCF evidence. This might, for example, be International Office, and if suitable will be demonstrated by: related academic or work For more information, go to considered by the course team. Depending experience; the quality of the personal www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ on the quality of your application, you may statement; a strong academic or other englishlanguagerequirements be invited for the next stage of selection. professional reference; or a combination of Following this, you may be selected for these factors. interview. If you are successful at interview you will be offered a place. Students who require a Tier 4 Student Visa to study with us to complete the UK Immigration History Form. Further information can be found on the LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Application Route Postgraduate September Autumn Home/EU International 17 Sept - 07 Dec Direct to College Direct to International Study Mode Portfolio required Office or Full Time or Part Time* Depends on units of Spring Deadline Overseas Representative 07 Jan - 22 March 1st March or Course Length study 5th July Deadline 15 months (Full Time) Summer No deadline, early 27 months (Part Time)* Course Location 15 April - 28 June Home/EU fee application is advised Depends on units of £7,500 (Full Time) study Autumn £3,750 per year (Part International Fee 23 Sept - 06 Dec Time)* £13,300

113 Executive Masters Business Administration (EMBA) Fashion

(subject to validation)

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114 Executive Masters Business Administration (EMBA) Fashion

(subject to validation)

What are the Entry Requirements? English Language Requirements Selection Process Entry to this course is highly competitive. All classes are conducted in English. The Applications from Home and EU applicants Your critical thinking and workload level required by the University for this will be considered by the course team. management capabilities will be tested to course is IELTS 7.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in the limit, requiring therefore a personal any one skill. Non-EU applicants wishing to apply skill set that is capable of meeting those to the course will be expected to have demands. For more information, go to made the appropriate visa arrangements www.arts.ac.uk/international/apply/ independently. Guidance on this can be Applicants are expected upon entry to have englishlanguagerequirements found at: achieved a mixture of the following entry www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas- requirements or their equivalent: Exceptionally applicants who do not immigration/studying/ meet these course entry requirements • An honours level degree may still be considered if the course team Depending on the quality of your • Significant industry experience judges that the application demonstrates application, you may be invited for the additional strengths and alternative next stage of selection. Following this, Exceptionally applicants who do not evidence. you may be selected for interview. If you are meet these course entry requirements successful at interview you will be offered may still be considered if the course team This might, for example, be demonstrated a place. judges that the application demonstrates by: related academic or work experience; additional strengths and alternative the quality of the personal statement; a Further information can be found on the evidence of intellectual strength. This strong academic or other professional LCF website: www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/courses might, for example, be demonstrated by reference; or a combination of these factors. related academic, work experience, the quality of their personal statement, a strong academic or other professional reference and a combination of these factors.

Study Level Start Date Term Dates Application Route Postgraduate January 2013 Autumn Direct to College TBC Study Mode Portfolio required Deadline Part Time No Spring No deadline, early TBC application advised Course Length Course Location Two years (Part Time) Summer Fee High Holborn TBC £27,000

115 Contact Information

London College of Fashion For Research Degrees please contact: 20 John Princes Street Eve Waring, Senior Research Administrator London W1G 0BJ University of the Arts London Research Office Telephone: +44 (0)207 514 7400 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY Email: [email protected] International Office (including course enquiries) Telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 8437 Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7514 7629 / 7656 / 7678 www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/contact/course-enquiry Language Centre Telephone +44 (0)20 7514 7261 UK/EU Course Enquiries Email: [email protected] (Full Time and Part Time degrees) Website: www.arts.ac.uk/languagecentre Telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 7344 www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/contact/course-enquiry Student Services Telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 7679 Open Day Information and Bookings Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 7582 Website: www.arts.ac.uk/student Email: [email protected] Housing Services Or book a place online at Telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 6240 www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/opendays Email: [email protected] Short Course Enquiries Website: www.arts.ac.uk/housing Telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 7552 Student Advisers Email: [email protected] University of the Arts London 272 High Holborn London WC1V 7EY Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7514 6250 Website: www.arts.ac.uk/student

116 Notes

117 118 Disclaimer This brochure describes the courses currently run by London College of Fashion maintained by University of the Arts London.

Every care has been taken to ensure accuracy but changes may have been introduced after publication, since it is the policy of the University to constantly review its provision of courses as well as the performance and content of individual courses. Prospective students should be aware of this and are invited to verify details at interview or by enquiry to the College.

The brochure is issued as a general guide to the College’s courses and facilities; it forms no part of a contract. The College reserves the right to make changes as may be appropriate for operational efficiency due to circumstances, including industrial action, outside of its control.

Please visit www.fashion.arts.ac.uk for the latest information and www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/brochure for the most to date downloadable version of this brochure.

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