BA (Hons) Fashion at Ravensbourne is a successful course with a well-established reputation in the fashion industry. You will focus on developing the creative, technical and professional skills necessary to be successful in a variety of fashion careers. The course is responsive to the vocational needs of the fashion industry, with a rigorous examination of the key issues and professional practice in one of its main specialisms: Womenswear, Menswear, Fashion Textiles, Fashion Promotion and Communication. Upon enrollment, you choose a specialism that will prepare you for entering careers that pathway upon graduation.
The course enjoys a strong reputation that is reflected in national and international acclaim, through strong press coverage, showing at exhibitions and prestigious competition wins. The department enjoys close relationships with a range of fashion businesses and designers that enrich the curriculum through visiting lecturers, sponsored projects and work experience placements.
Specialist Pathway – Womenswear
Introduces you to the various aspects associated with womenswear fashion. Specialist units and related projects reflect current professional practice. You will be encouraged to develop creative, innovative and contemporary designs.
Topics include: understanding the female form, line, proportion, silhouette, fabric and colour.
Specialist Pathway – Menswear
Focuses on menswear and the ability to conceptualise and develop fashion for that sector. Topics include: understanding the male form, line, proportion, silhouette, fabric and colour for a range of key market sectors including high street and tailoring.
Specialist Pathway – Fashion Textiles
Explores the skills for creating stimulating silhouettes, whilst undergoing an exploration through printed digital textiles and knit.
You will gain an understanding of print processes through mimaki, screen-printing and specialist knit software.
Specialist Pathway – Fashion Promotion and Communication
Focuses on how fashion is expressed through the creative mediums of photography, styling and writing across traditional and new media. You will investigate fashion launches, public relations and advertising campaigns alongside conceptual fashion promotions and be involved in the Rave on Air student showcase.
Level 1
Places you within your chosen Specialist pathway. You are introduced to the creative and technical aspects of fashion promotion and communication.
Level 2
Sees you undertaking a deeper exploration of your specialism, continuing to develop an individual approach to the subject and learning to place your work in a professional context. The year includes the opportunity for extended work experience and industrystandard projects that will challenge and stimulate you.
Level 2 has a high industrial focus and will engage you in a variety of external briefs and competitions.
Level 3
Allows you to develop individual, independent lines of enquiry around your specialism. You will build on your practical and theoretical knowledge through a major project that will focus your abilities. Level 3 also includes a dissertation on a fashion-related topic.
Personal and Professional Development units in this level focus you on the transition to work or further study. You will reflect on your career goals in relation to your professional development and explore areas of enterprise and business start-up.
5 GCSEs (A-C) or equivalent (preferably including English, Media/Technology), and at least one of the following or equivalent UK or international qualification: 2 A Levels (A-C); 4 AS Levels (A-C); 2 vocational A Levels (A-C); Level 3 Foundation Diploma or National Diploma; Advanced Diploma (A-C) or International Baccalaureate (24 points or above). Also, an interview and a portfolio, showreel or other indicator of creative or technical practice where appropriate.
A Progression Agreement is a formal arrangement between two or more
education providers. It spells out what a learner needs to do to be
considered for a place on a named programme of study. Progression Agreements
may vary in the conditions they specify but they all aim to give guaranteed
pathways into higher education.
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