Fashion Styling and Production (Hons) University of the Arts London (UAL)

Overview

Introduction  

As a BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production student, you will be provided with a supportive environment to engage in the discipline through experimental practice, critical debates around fashion image making, and sophisticated technical and research skills.  

You will be encouraged to participate in co-creation and actions that realise positive change through creative practice and styling as a form of storytelling. This will be situated within a contemporary and historical knowledge of your creative discipline, within the wider perspectives of fashion and socio-political considerations. 

We nurture our students to be critical fashion image makers, supporting them by encouraging the investigation of themes such as diversity, identity, community, and sustainability, all of which will be located within a contemporary fashion landscape. 

What to expect  

BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Production prepares you for a career in Fashion Media, working as a Stylist and Creative Producer in the fashion and imaging industries. The course will facilitate your understanding and knowledge of production as well as styling, which will give you an additional set of skills relevant to your discipline, required in creating practice-based work. The course will also introduce you to current technologies and platforms that the industry requires as flexible learners across multi-faceted roles in fashion practice.   

You will develop your skills and understanding of styling and production. You will also be introduced to collaborative practice and the importance of teamwork by engaging in cross-disciplinary units that allow you to choose specialist roles relevant to styling and production practice.  

You will explore physical and material responses to fashion styling alongside the investigation of a multitude of fashion languages. You will acquire practical and research skills required for conceptual thinking in styling and production. You will also develop your analytical and critical awareness which will be underpinned by a contemporary and historical knowledge of your creative discipline, situated within the wider perspectives of fashion, society, and the environment.   

Experimental approaches to fashion are encouraged throughout the course, whilst concept development for fashion narratives and visual storytelling are key features and drive the focus of each unit. You will also begin to explore and develop a list of contacts with university collaborators and with industry practitioners throughout the course, to support future enterprise. 

Digital and physical technical workshops build on and enhance the practical applications of your styling and production skills, for relevant platforms, in preparation for future enterprise.