Fashion Design and Promotion (Hons) University of Sunderland

Overview

On the Fashion Design and Promotion (Hons) programme of the University of Sunderland explore every aspect of fashion, from styling and manufacturing to visual merchandising, buying, and selling. Gain invaluable skills and an understanding of fashion design, fashion promotion, and marketing.

Key facts

• In fashion design, you’ll develop concepts, explore materials, design everything from fabrics to full fashion collections, and develop an understanding of the manufacturing processes. 

• You’ll gain all the skills you’ll need to construct garments – such as pattern making, cutting, sewing, fabric printing, and craftsmanship. You'll also have the opportunity to discover new technologies, using software such as CLO 3D to bring your designs to life.

• In the fashion promotion and marketing pathway, you’ll consider the whole fashion market, analyse future trends, develop brands, learn the marketing mix, understand visual merchandising, create promotional materials, and plan and manage events, including fashion shows. 

• You’ll learn graphic design, styling, and photography, and will have access to our fashion journalism expertise.

Career options

• Graduates from this course have gone into a wide range of careers, from fashion design, pattern cutting and garment technology to sourcing and allocating, buying, branding, marketing, merchandising, communications, styling and more.

• The professional skills graduates obtain from this course also allow them to build successful freelance careers.

• Past graduates have gone on to work for well renowned design companies such as Abercrombie and Fitch, River Island, Debenhams, TopMan, All Saints and Matalan.