Fashion (Top-up) (Hons) University of Greater Manchester

Overview

Fashion (Top-up) (Hons) offered by the University of Greater Manchester enhances your existing foundation degree or HND-level knowledge and skills, ready to achieve the status of BA (Hons) Fashion (Top-up) graduate. 

At honours-level, you'll focus on supporting the development of your personal studio-based practice, and gain critical inquiry and research skills to inspire your work and enhance its quality and relevance. You'll explore the cultural, historical, theoretical and conceptual elements of fashion to enrich your knowledge and understanding of forecasted trends, fashion design history, commercial design and manufacturing processes, and material understanding.

You'll demonstrate your skills in pattern cutting, garment manufacture, fashion illustration and visualisation techniques, and the application of surface design and embellishment by creating a portfolio and sample garments to impress potential employers. You'll balance your individual creative expression with industry awareness for the production of innovative fashion outcomes.

Students at Fashion (Top-up) (Hons) offered by the UUniversity of Greater Manchester will:

• have access to the latest technologies for design and visualisation, including Adobe Creative Suite, our Mimaki TX fabric printer, laser cutting equipment, and digital embroidery.

• have the chance to develop transferable skills valuable for work in the wider fashion industry, as well as for related fields such as PR, events management, cultural policy and the media.

• benefit from opportunities to work on live briefs for established clients sourced from national and international trade events and professional bodies.