Welcome to Graduate Preview 2025
Here you can find portfolios from a selection of universities from the BFC Colleges Council showcasing some of the best emerging talent underpinning the creative future of the fashion industry.
Graduate Preview is an annual celebration within the academic year that champions graduating BA and MA Fashion Design students. This digital platform is a hub to connect an extensive network of experienced course leaders and students from across the UK with industry and wider creative communities.
Arts University Bournemouth Fashion is leading the way for Innovation. From concept to realisation we experiment, interrogate, and develop design practises appropriate to each individual design philosophy. AUB students creatively explore traditional and modern techniques, cutting edge digital fashion technology, craftmanship, product development and presentation as we discover connections between concepts of dress, fashion, and the body as a site for artistic expression.
We are award winners in innovation; with a portfolio of student successes which is internationally recognised through graduate destination, exciting industry collaboration and inspirational speakers integrated into the DNA of the course.
At AUB we celebrate individuality to realise a tailored path within the fashion industry and community at this critical time in history.
Bath Spa University is where creative minds meet. We teach and research across art, design, sciences, education, social science, and business. The University employs outstanding creative professionals who support its aim to be a leading educational institution in creativity, culture and enterprise.
Recently awarded the Sunday Times University of the Year for Social Inclusion 2024 and receiving Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework for very high quality, and outstanding features for Student Experience and Student Outcomes
BA (Hons) Fashion Design located in the heart of the Locksbrook campus home to the school of Design and school Art, Film and Media.
Award winners with a portfolio of student’s successes internationally recognised through graduate destinations. The course philosophy remains, with small cohorts of students, a focus on research, ideas, design and 3D development where technical, digital and craft skills are viewed as one creative endeavour alongside sustainable/responsible design, inclusivity and diversity. The course has excellent industry-led teaching staff.
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Our BA Fashion Design Course will provide you with a comprehensive fashion design education. The course encourages innovation in both design skills and technical craftsmanship with a focus on sustainability, system thinking and socioeconomic practice. We will provide you with international opportunities and integration with our industry partners to empower you to explore your individuality, creativity, and future employability. You will work with industry experts and a dedicated team of academic researchers and practitioners. A decolonised curriculum structures the innovative approach to 2D and 3D design resulting in diverse experts of your craft.
This year’s Cardiff school of art and design graduating cohort presents a multidisciplinary body of work grounded in material exploration, cultural heritage, and emerging technologies. Our graduates interrogate fashion’s role through sustainable practices, critical storytelling, and design that foregrounds process as much as outcome. Projects span digital craft, textile innovation, and wearable interventions, often challenging dominant fashion narratives through decentred, individual expressions. While rooted in local and regional context, the work speaks globally, offering alternative futures through rigorous research and thoughtful making. Together, the cohort reflects a bold, critical, and materially fluent generation of designers shaping new systems of value and meaning in fashion.
Carmarthen School of Art has an established reputation for facilitating the creative development of art and design students. We are a small, friendly, purpose built art school that offers a wide range of contemporary, cutting edge and traditional facilities.
The Fashion: Design and Construction programme at Carmarthen School of Art has evolved in response to contemporary fashion culture and recent developments within the fashion industry. The programme aims to develop students’ creative and technical skills, abilities and confidence in designing and constructing garments through practice-led experience and processes that foster the development of individual design identity. Class sizes are small and tutor contact is second to none. The course encourages creativity and innovation in a lively working environment.
The fashion industry is a fast-moving, competitive marketplace. This programme develops reflective graduates who are highly creative, independent, enquiring individuals, versatile and capable of meeting its challenges and working effectively and successfully within a professional context. Graduate success is high, with many students developing their own fashion labels, while others have found employment designing within larger design houses or within the wider fashion sector.
A well resourced degree programme which includes a varied body of assignments that highlight the importance of technical skills within the industry. These are underpinned with strong industrial links which provide students with highly relevant industry practice, working with brands such as; All Saints, River Island, George, Burberry, and Givenchy.
We also offer a high level of tutor expertise in design, pattern cutting and construction.
Graduate Preview 2021 Featured Students:
Anna Yates
Molly Grinham
Aimee Jones
Central Saint Martins, part of the University of the Arts, is an internationally renowned centre for arts and design education and has one of the most established reputations in fashion education. Fashion-related BA and MA courses range from fashion design, to image, promotion and journalism. With arguably the largest roster of successful alumni, some of the most celebrated include John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Kim Jones, Phoebe Philo, Daniel Lee, Grace Wales Bonner, Molly Goddard, Ibrahim Kamara, Rejina Pyo and Harris Reed.
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BA Hons Fashion Design course at De Montfort University (DMU) aims to nurture individual creativity and entrepreneurship concentrating on the relationship between design and technology.
The course offers specialisms to study in menswear, womenswear and or fashion knitwear, including essential skills for design, modelling on the stand, pattern cutting and 3D realisation of fashion products. With close links with industry our students experience a rich and varied curriculum.
Fashion Design is ranked top two for Fashion and Textiles in the UK for ‘Graduate Prospects’, according to The Guardian University Guide 2020. Also, named best in learning experience in 2019 by The Business of Fashion.
This year, more than ever, Edinburgh College of Art fashion graduate collections reflect a diverse range of personalities and design identities. These collections are a testament to the Programme’s strong commitment to nurturing individual design perspectives and supporting creative expression across various contexts. From excellence in commercial design thinking to more expressive, creative and conceptual areas of fashion design, our students demonstrate a deep understanding of quality, innovative cutting, material innovation, and global style.
Falmouth Fashion Design Class of 2025 began their final year sourcing materials to explore through pattern cutting challenges, developed by our Senior Pattern Cutting team and guest lecturer Helen Shine @dot.n.cross. Techniques like subtraction and zero waste cutting prompt students to consider how much fabric is available or needed. They develop a clear rationale for their designs, learning about Design for Recycling, Circular Design strategies from the Circular Textiles Foundation, and build on their Year 2 knowledge of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 12.
Students explore their sense of place through memory, culture, and landscape. Work focuses on movement, reuse, and material innovation, sometimes found unexpectedly, like in the back of a car. Shared studio space with Textile Design and Fashion Marketing students fosters collaboration. Collections span womenswear, menswear, digital/ inclusive design, and clothing repair. They graduate with research, construction, CLO3D, and Tech Pack skills. As they say in cornwall: Proper Job. @falmouth_fashiondesign
Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is the only specialist and independent arts university in Scotland, where students enjoy a small, close-knit community in a creative atmosphere where anything is possible.
BA(Hons) Fashion Design combines hands-on experience, creative thinking and technology throughout the four-year degree. We encourage creative freedom, the pursuit of individual interests and original, innovative design ideas.
Students gain a working knowledge of core industry skills such as research, analysis, translation, drawing, pattern cutting, and construction. They reflect on their own beliefs and career aspirations through a variety of design briefs that will contextualise their practice and build the appropriate graduate skills required to succeed. Student International exchanges, live industrial projects and placements are an integral part of our programme
Kingston School of Art’s BA Fashion is a prestigious, globally recognised programme. Since its 1972 accreditation, it has built on its heritage as one of the UK’s first fashion BA courses, producing industry-leading graduates and setting excellence standards in fashion education.
The course cultivates innovative, industry-ready designers, equipping them with creative and technical skills, research, design development, pattern cutting, 3D realisation (physical/digital), textiles, and digital portfolios, while fostering critical engagement with cultural, social, and ethical dimensions of fashion.
Global industry collaboration ensures contemporary relevance, integrating digital innovation, sustainability, and archival research. Partnerships with top brands provide hands-on experience, internships, and employability boosts. Students gain market insight, 3D product development skills, and industry awareness. Graduates emerge as agile, forward-thinking creatives, ready to lead in global fashion.
Leeds Arts University is the only specialist arts university in the North of England, where students enjoy a small, close-knit community in a creative atmosphere where anything feels possible. BA (Hons) Fashion Design is a long-standing course with a proudly fostered successful alumni network. The course is a three-year, full time, practice-based course that embraces the diversity of fashion in the 21st century and prepares individuals for a range of careers within the fashion industry. The course has opportunities for collaboration across other disciplines exploiting the possibility of creative practices not limited by subject.
The Fashion Programme at LCF works uncompromisingly towards finding ethical and environmentally practices that will change the fashion system.
Courses include MA FDT Womenswear, MA FDT Menswear, Graduate Diploma FDT, BA FDT Womenswear, BA FDT Menswear. Each student within the programme is given space to find their own voice giving rise to negotiated individual outcomes and perspectives which explore multiple facets of fashion within an ethical framework.
The class of ‘25 offer uncompromising personal perspectives on issues related to identity, migration and belonging to provide a mirror to injustice and hope that, through fashion design practice, we can break down systems of oppression to embrace plurality and celebrate the complexity of human existence and experience.
Students push the boundaries of what menswear and womenswear mean, exploring varied gender and non-binary perspectives.
The work highlights a broad spectrum of voices through critical discourse and lively debate. Investigating the meaning of contemporary fashion whist recognising and challenging historical knowledge, craftsmanship, and techniques.
The team works with students to find a balance between conceptual and wearable collections through innovative pattern cutting, finishings, and in some cases redefining tailoring, giving the collections a professional edge. Students have industry experience and are highly employable due to their individual, sustainable thinking with extensive skills and knowledge.
Pushing the boundaries of creativity & keeping traditional skills alive.
Our fashion course at London Met is a stand alone experience in education unlike any
other design course & recognized as one of the best in the UK. We work with every
student as an individual and set our students up so they are ready for current industry
practices and are equipped with the skills, knowledge and stamina to have successful
careers.
Located in the heart of Shoreditch, we attract rich diversity amongst our cohort and
staff, enabling us to offer a multifaceted environment in which to research, challenge,
design and create.
Alongside the core studio workshops in pattern cutting and technical sewing skills,
we deliver “Artisan Workshops”. These are focused classes within a creative design
brief in specialisms such as corsetry, tailoring and leather design. These workshops
are delivered by outside industry professionals, all bringing with them valuable
knowledge and industry insight. We believe in the importance of sustainable practices
& educating the appreciation of fine craftsmanship and the skill that goes into making
something well.
Our graduates are year after year going into successful industry careers, as well as
some choosing to continue their studies further onto prestigious MA programs.
Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University is home to a community of over 1,500 fashion students, from designers to merchandisers, managers, promoters and art directors, creating a culture of collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Its teaching, research and innovation cross disciplinary boundaries, stimulating new connections, fresh perspectives and original thinking. With over 400 industry partners, placements are central to its undergraduate courses, allowing students access to international work experience opportunities.
The University is proudly home to two highly respected undergraduate fashion design programmes;
BA Fashion Design & Technology combines design innovation with in-depth exploration of the technical aspects of fashion manufacturing. Working to contemporary industry standards students design and develop innovative fashion products and ranges using both manual and digital technologies, with opportunity to specialise in Menswear, Sportswear and Womenswear.
BA Fashion follows an arts-based, studio practice model working collaboratively with other art and design courses in the Manchester School of Art. The programme offers a culture of creative expression with a focus on conceptual thinking, experimental textile practices and contemporary craftmanship. Alumni include Matthew Miller, Nabil Nayal and Aitor Throup.
Middlesex University proudly celebrates the creative individuality of its 2025 Fashion and Textiles graduates, a vibrant community of makers, thinkers, and storytellers. Each project in this year’s showcase reflects a distinct personal voice and vision.
Our BA Fashion programme empowers students to define their creative identities through fashion and textiles, specialising in knit, print, weave, or design. Supported by expert staff and cutting-edge facilities, students explored themes from Islamic architecture to queer culture and the Valencian festival Las Fallas.
We champion personalised design, rooted in sustainability, digital innovation, or traditional craft, encouraging each student to find their own message and method.
Led by passionate industry professionals, the course fosters free thinkers and future changemakers. This year’s graduation was made even more special with alum Martine Rose receiving an Honorary Doctorate for her outstanding achievements.
Fashion at Northumbria has an established reputation for producing designers with creative vision and the commercial realism to begin a career within the Fashion sector. Through the study of either Fashion BA, Fashion Design and Marketing BA or Fashion Communication BA, our students develop creative, intellectual and practical skills while exploring fashion not only from an aesthetic and technical viewpoint, but also through an understanding of future trends, culture and the environment that surrounds us. Students are able to develop their creative skills through industry based live projects, competitions and through national and international work placements.
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is one of the world’s leading art and design schools; influencing, inspiring and innovating for over 175 years. The fashion and fashion knitwear design courses prepare students to take on the global fashion industry. Graduates are renowned within the industry for their creative, innovative, and directional design ideas and skills, ability to work collaboratively and with a strong underlying awareness of commerciality, sustainability, and technologies. We are delighted to be ranked as one of the top 20 universities in the UK for Fashion and Textiles (Guardian University Guide 2023).
The BA Fashion Design course has an established global reputation. Graduates are industry ready and renowned for their creativity combined with strong technical knowledge and skills in The BA Fashion knitwear course offers an optional placement year in industry. Graduates have comprehensive technical knowledge and skill and able to take full creative control of the design and creation of fabrics and garment within a contemporary fashion context.
Alumni are working globally for leading brands such as Calvin Klein, Hugo boss, G-star and leading suppliers to UK high street retailers and established fashion labels such as Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs, Julian McDonald and Dries van Noton.
Ravensbourne continues to grow our internationally renowned reputation, combining digital innovation with traditional craftsmanship.
Alongside Collections, the Press Show at Studio Smithfield opened with a Harris Tweed Hebrides collaboration. 23 looks were created from sponsored Harris Tweed and Bernstein & Banleys lining, reinterpreting traditional materials and celebrating sustainable practices.
Ravensbourne reached the Student Fabric Initiative final, presenting at the prestigious Institute of Positive Fashion Forum for the third year running. Sustainability continues to be forefront, ensuring future professionals can minimise fashion environmental impact.
Additional finalists include Louis Vuitton ADGI, Pierre Cardin Young Designers, Golden Shears Tailoring and Ventile Outerwear. Opportunities included BFC x British Library x Labrum, BFC x Pandora, The Stich Archive and Bonhams x Alexander McQueen.
Industry expert staff supported by representatives from Stella McCartney, Laura Pitharas, Paolina Russo and more ensured graduates increased their professional level understanding, to support future career transitions.
Today, time and the perception of time has to be considered. That to become a designer overnight is only for a few and that most of us take a life time to achieve, if we ever. But time is key to build experience, understand the failure as well as the success, to explore beyond the walls of education and find your wider tribe…this all takes time and it is valuable, valid and with a commitment and tenacity that is required in our global world right now. Of course there is a parallel time set where everything moves very fast and instincts here are essential - hence the real truth of your own sense of self is so key in defining your next steps whether in the fast time or the slow time of your life, adventure and routes.
RCA FASHION ask you to be true.
Image Credit: Keiga Hua Hui
Sheffield Hallam University are an award-winning university, recently receiving Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework for outstanding support for student success and progression.
We provide people from all backgrounds with the opportunity to acquire the skills, knowledge and experience to succeed at whatever they choose to do.
As one of the UK’s largest and most progressive universities, our teaching, research and partnerships are characterised by a focus on real world impact - addressing the health, economic and social challenges facing society today.
We are ambitious for our university, our students, our colleagues, our partners, our city and our region. Our vision is to be the world's leading applied university; showing what a university genuinely focused on transforming lives can achieve.
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At UCA, creativity makes global communities more vibrant, more innovative, and more human. For 160 years, UCA has been a passionate advocate for creativity, tailoring students’ education to help forge the path that’s right for them. The fashion courses have established UCA an enviable international reputation for producing highly-skilled and sought-after graduates, ready to launch their careers on the global fashion stage. With courses in Fashion Design, Atelier and Tailoring, Textiles, Fashion Image & Styling, Fashion Photography, Digital Fashion, and Makeup & Hair Design, UCA is a place to work at the highest levels of the industry.
University of Brighton, Fashion with Business Studies is an internationally acclaimed course, combining highly creative design with technical skill and craft expertise. The unique integration of Business Studies within the curriculum and opportunities for a year's industry experience prepares graduates with the necessary practical knowledge and creative skills for employment in the competitive global fashion industry.
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Our story started in 1898. We've survived wars, celebrated momentous sporting events and fought against society's biggest sustainability issues. Now in the digital age, the world of work is rapidly changing, and we're adapting to ensure our graduates have the skills and resilience to succeed in their careers and make a positive impact on society and the planet.
The 2025 Fashion Design cohort at the University of Leeds present a diverse and industry-ready portfolios. Their work combines strong technical capability with conceptual depth, reflecting contemporary themes including sustainability, inclusivity, and digital innovation. Graduates demonstrate a confident mix of hand and digital drawing, CAD, CLO3D, and garment construction. Their collections show clear commercial awareness while maintaining originality, spanning womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, and gender-fluid design. Many have developed their own brand identities or responded to live briefs for global fashion labels.
Graduate Strengths
- Highly skilled in design development, digital capabilities, fabric sourcing, and technical garment construction
- Confident in using Adobe Creative Suite, CLO3D, and industry-standard CAD tools
- Strong storytelling, concept building and branding, with focus on contemporary consumer needs
Industry Experience
- Live projects and placements with UK and international fashion companies
- Experience working to briefs, cost, and timeline constraints
Innovation & Values
- Themes include circular fashion, inclusive sizing, digital prowess, and sustainability
- Design approaches reflect a balance of creativity, responsibility, and market awareness
- Portfolios reveal future-facing thinking grounded in practical skills
The staff are proud to showcase this year’s graduating cohort and the breadth of their concepts and outcomes. Many explored personal meaning while considering fashion’s relevance to wider society—demonstrating that empathy in design can be both experimental and commercial. Our students work across diverse specialisms, with the body as a central focus of creative expression.
Through womenswear, menswear and non-gendered collections, topics ranged from Niamh Watts’ ‘Feral Birds,’ a tale of street pigeons, to Owen Blockley’s ‘Church Farm,’ a queering of a 200-year-old Cheshire farm using Harris Tweed. In October, students visited Shaoxing and Hangzhou, China, to source fabrics and meet leading suppliers. Sixteen were later selected for our June press show in Ningbo, which will be showcased online in September. Notable achievements include Elizabeth Knight winning the BFC x Pandora ‘Be Love’ competition, and Agatha Palmer’s finalist spot in the BFC x British Library competition with Labrum.
This year’s graduating cohort showcases a dynamic range of fashion talent across womenswear, menswear, sportswear, digital design and sustainable innovation. With a strong emphasis on personal narrative and ethical responsibility, students have explored themes such as inclusivity, climate anxiety, cultural heritage, neurodiversity and the future of fashion technology. Final collections highlight experimental silhouettes, bio-fabricated textiles, CLO3D visualisation, and Gerber digital pattern cutting—demonstrating a commitment to both creativity and conscience. Many have collaborated with local designers, charities or sustainability hubs, reflecting the course’s civic engagement ethos. This is a cohort unafraid to question the status quo.
We are incredibly proud of the Class of 2025 and all they have achieved on the Programme. It has been a journey of transformation; not only of materials into forms, and concepts into tangible outcomes; but of the Students themselves as they have developed into confident, multi-skilled and ambitious Creatives.
Their practices are rooted in personal narrative, sustainability and cultural awareness, qualities that reflect both the ethos of the Fashion Textiles programme and the demands of a fast-changing industry. Their work is as conceptually rich as it is technically accomplished, and this Showcase celebrates not only their ability to ‘do’ Fashion Textiles, but their capacity to question established paradigms and to respond to the world around them with fresh perspectives, integrity and the determination to make a meaningful difference.
Renowned in its ranks amongst London’s great fashion schools, Westminster is at the forefront of quality creative education in the UK, something which is at the foundation of its status as a global fashion centre and breeding ground for next generation talent. Notable Westminster alumni include S.S.Daley, Ashley Williams, Paolo Carzana, Priya Ahluwalia, Robyn Lynch, Stuart Vevers, Christopher Bailey, and Katie Hillier.
Winchester School of Art (WSA) are proud to be one of the UK’s leading art and design institutions and part of the world renowned University of Southampton.
WSA is an international centre of ideas and innovation and have a long history going back 150 years. They offer an industry standard teaching environment with traditional facilities alongside the latest digital technologies. With generous space and resources students are able to ‘learning by doing’ in fully equipped studios. Smaller student numbers enable our industry experienced staff to provide personal support and offer students professional opportunities.
In the live projects, designers meet the students, share their experience and select students for internships.Students can study abroad or take a Year in Employment. WSA alumni work in a range of prestigious companies in the UK and internationally, including Burberry, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen and more.
Graduate Preview 2021 Featured Students:
Emily Erskine
Lydia Vere Gilbertson
Katie Charlotte Greenham
Sophie Hicks
Yubing Luo
Jessica Morris
Georgia Alice Pescud
Cheng Qian
Mercedes Ridge
Caroline Lita Streat
Hannah Steel
Hannah Vatcher
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The BFC Colleges Council, founded in 1993, connects UK fashion departments with the fashion and creative industries. It supports excellence in design education by linking course leaders with industry professionals. Learn more about the BFC Colleges Council HERE
Arts University Bournemouth Fashion is leading the way for Innovation. From concept to realisation we experiment, interrogate, and develop design practises appropriate to each individual design philosophy. AUB students creatively explore traditional and modern techniques, cutting edge digital fashion technology, craftmanship, product development and presentation as we discover connections between concepts of dress, fashion, and the body as a site for artistic expression.
We are award winners in innovation; with a portfolio of student successes which is internationally recognised through graduate destination, exciting industry collaboration and inspirational speakers integrated into the DNA of the course.
At AUB we celebrate individuality to realise a tailored path within the fashion industry and community at this critical time in history.
Bath Spa University is where creative minds meet. We teach and research across art, design, sciences, education, social science, and business. The University employs outstanding creative professionals who support its aim to be a leading educational institution in creativity, culture and enterprise.
Recently awarded the Sunday Times University of the Year for Social Inclusion 2024 and receiving Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework for very high quality, and outstanding features for Student Experience and Student Outcomes
BA (Hons) Fashion Design located in the heart of the Locksbrook campus home to the school of Design and school Art, Film and Media.
Award winners with a portfolio of student’s successes internationally recognised through graduate destinations. The course philosophy remains, with small cohorts of students, a focus on research, ideas, design and 3D development where technical, digital and craft skills are viewed as one creative endeavour alongside sustainable/responsible design, inclusivity and diversity. The course has excellent industry-led teaching staff.
Visit the Bath Spa University, Bath School of Design website
Our BA Fashion Design Course will provide you with a comprehensive fashion design education. The course encourages innovation in both design skills and technical craftsmanship with a focus on sustainability, system thinking and socioeconomic practice. We will provide you with international opportunities and integration with our industry partners to empower you to explore your individuality, creativity, and future employability. You will work with industry experts and a dedicated team of academic researchers and practitioners. A decolonised curriculum structures the innovative approach to 2D and 3D design resulting in diverse experts of your craft.
Carmarthen School of Art has an established reputation for facilitating the creative development of art and design students. We are a small, friendly, purpose built art school that offers a wide range of contemporary, cutting edge and traditional facilities.
The Fashion: Design and Construction programme at Carmarthen School of Art has evolved in response to contemporary fashion culture and recent developments within the fashion industry. The programme aims to develop students’ creative and technical skills, abilities and confidence in designing and constructing garments through practice-led experience and processes that foster the development of individual design identity. Class sizes are small and tutor contact is second to none. The course encourages creativity and innovation in a lively working environment.
The fashion industry is a fast-moving, competitive marketplace. This programme develops reflective graduates who are highly creative, independent, enquiring individuals, versatile and capable of meeting its challenges and working effectively and successfully within a professional context. Graduate success is high, with many students developing their own fashion labels, while others have found employment designing within larger design houses or within the wider fashion sector.
A well resourced degree programme which includes a varied body of assignments that highlight the importance of technical skills within the industry. These are underpinned with strong industrial links which provide students with highly relevant industry practice, working with brands such as; All Saints, River Island, George, Burberry, and Givenchy.
We also offer a high level of tutor expertise in design, pattern cutting and construction.
Graduate Preview 2021 Featured Students:
Anna Yates
Molly Grinham
Aimee Jones
Central Saint Martins, part of the University of the Arts, is an internationally renowned centre for arts and design education and has one of the most established reputations in fashion education. Fashion-related BA and MA courses range from fashion design, to image, promotion and journalism. With arguably the largest roster of successful alumni, some of the most celebrated include John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Kim Jones, Phoebe Philo, Daniel Lee, Grace Wales Bonner, Molly Goddard, Ibrahim Kamara, Rejina Pyo and Harris Reed.
Visit the Central Saint Martins website
BA Hons Fashion Design course at De Montfort University (DMU) aims to nurture individual creativity and entrepreneurship concentrating on the relationship between design and technology.
The course offers specialisms to study in menswear, womenswear and or fashion knitwear, including essential skills for design, modelling on the stand, pattern cutting and 3D realisation of fashion products. With close links with industry our students experience a rich and varied curriculum.
Fashion Design is ranked top two for Fashion and Textiles in the UK for ‘Graduate Prospects’, according to The Guardian University Guide 2020. Also, named best in learning experience in 2019 by The Business of Fashion.
At Edinburgh College of Art we encourage students to express their personal identities, supporting them in becoming originators and innovators in their field. We also uphold excellence in ‘fashion traditions’, including drawing, illustration, pattern cutting and making skills, whilst embracing digital and technical futures. This space, a link between past and futures, provides a rich, reflective, and dynamic learning environment. We ask our students to design with inclusive, respectful, and celebratory approaches to all humankind, and to be considerate to environmental impact by generating more sustainable design solutions. Our ambition is that the future of fashion lies with informed designer activists, who use empathy and care as core tools for research, design and fashion outcomes.
Falmouth Fashion Design has a strong focus on creating original and responsible clothing, informed by environmental, ethical and moral challenges of our time. It is a practical course teaching technical and creative design skills across womens- and menswear. Students gain a working knowledge of core industry skills such as research, analysis, translation, drawing, pattern cutting, and construction. In addition to more specialised directions, such as screen, digital and riso printing, machine knitting, help grow and use our natural dye garden, bookbinding, and performancewear construction techniques, such as ultrasonic welding. Students are taught digital pattern cutting skills using CLO3D, as well as the standard industry Adobe software for tech packs and flat drawings. As part of the Fashion and Textiles Institute, the students share modules across courses, and are actively encouraged to collaborate with their peers.
Graduate Preview 2021 Featured Students:
Flick Holden
Sophie Forster
Kira Foster
Georgia Featherstone
Chiara Corso
Charlotte Nich
Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is the only specialist and independent arts university in Scotland, where students enjoy a small, close-knit community in a creative atmosphere where anything is possible.
GSA Fashion Design combines hands-on experience, creative thinking and technology throughout the four-year degree. We encourage creative freedom, the pursuit of individual interests and original, innovative design ideas.
Students gain a working knowledge of core industry skills such as research, analysis, translation, drawing, pattern cutting, and construction. They reflect on their own beliefs and career aspirations through a variety of design briefs that will contextualise their practice and build the appropriate graduate skills required to succeed. Student International exchanges, live industrial projects and placements are an integral part of our programme.
Leeds Arts University is the only specialist arts university in the North of England, where students enjoy a small, close-knit community in a creative atmosphere where anything feels possible. BA (Hons) Fashion Design is a long-standing course with a proudly fostered successful alumni network. The course is a three-year, full time, practice-based course that embraces the diversity of fashion in the 21st century and prepares individuals for a range of careers within the fashion industry. The course has opportunities for collaboration across other disciplines exploiting the possibility of creative practices not limited by subject.
London College of Fashion, UAL, leads the world in fashion business, media and design education. We’ve been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion. Our philosophy of open and inclusive education encourages students to examine the past and question the present. To develop inventive, assertive ideas that challenge social and political agendas giving them the skills, opportunities and, above all, the freedom to put those ideas into practice.
From our new home at East Bank, the UK’s newest cultural quarter in east London, we’re forging partnerships and creating opportunities and connections like never before to shape lives through fashion.
LCF's BFC Colleges Council Membership courses include BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Menswear, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear, MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear) and MA Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear).
Photo Credit: Taskin Goec, MA Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear), 2024.
Pushing the boundaries of creativity & keeping traditional skills alive.
Our fashion course at London Met is a stand alone experience in education unlike any
other design course & recognized as one of the best in the UK. We work with every
student as an individual and set our students up so they are ready for current industry
practices and are equipped with the skills, knowledge and stamina to have successful
careers.
Located in the heart of Shoreditch, we attract rich diversity amongst our cohort and
staff, enabling us to offer a multifaceted environment in which to research, challenge,
design and create.
Alongside the core studio workshops in pattern cutting and technical sewing skills,
we deliver “Artisan Workshops”. These are focused classes within a creative design
brief in specialisms such as corsetry, tailoring and leather design. These workshops
are delivered by outside industry professionals, all bringing with them valuable
knowledge and industry insight. We believe in the importance of sustainable practices
& educating the appreciation of fine craftsmanship and the skill that goes into making
something well.
Our graduates are year after year going into successful industry careers, as well as
some choosing to continue their studies further onto prestigious MA programs.
Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University is home to a community of over 1,500 fashion students, from designers to merchandisers, managers, promoters and art directors, creating a culture of collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Its teaching, research and innovation cross disciplinary boundaries, stimulating new connections, fresh perspectives and original thinking. With over 400 industry partners, placements are central to its undergraduate courses, allowing students access to international work experience opportunities.
The University is proudly home to two highly respected undergraduate fashion design programmes;
BA Fashion Design & Technology combines design innovation with in-depth exploration of the technical aspects of fashion manufacturing. Working to contemporary industry standards students design and develop innovative fashion products and ranges using both manual and digital technologies, with opportunity to specialise in Menswear, Sportswear and Womenswear.
BA Fashion follows an arts-based, studio practice model working collaboratively with other art and design courses in the Manchester School of Art. The programme offers a culture of creative expression with a focus on conceptual thinking, experimental textile practices and contemporary craftmanship. Alumni include Matthew Miller, Nabil Nayal and Aitor Throup.
Middlesex University celebrates creative individuality, championing its diverse student body and their rainbow of approaches and outcomes across fashion and textiles.
Our innovative and exciting BA Fashion course offers students the chance to develop their own creative identity through exploration of textiles alongside fashion. With industry experienced teaching staff and state of the art facilities, students can specialise in knit, print or weave alongside advanced fashion development and a wealth of mixed media textiles. We support bespoke approaches to design and process encouraging focus on more sustainable, digital or handcraft, allowing for a diverse and inclusive breadth of outcomes.
Our teaching team of highly skilled industry practitioners encourage students to be free thinkers and innovators, supporting the development of personal projects that respond to the ever-changing fashion industry.
Fashion at Northumbria has an established reputation for producing designers with creative vision and the commercial realism to begin a career within the Fashion sector. Through the study of either Fashion BA, Fashion Design and Marketing BA or Fashion Communication BA, our students develop creative, intellectual and practical skills while exploring fashion not only from an aesthetic and technical viewpoint, but also through an understanding of future trends, culture and the environment that surrounds us. Students are able to develop their creative skills through industry based live projects, competitions and through national and international work placements.
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is one of the world’s leading art and design schools; influencing, inspiring and innovating for over 175 years. The fashion and fashion knitwear design courses prepare students to take on the global fashion industry. Graduates are renowned within the industry for their creative, innovative, and directional design ideas and skills, ability to work collaboratively and with a strong underlying awareness of commerciality, sustainability, and technologies. We are delighted to be ranked as one of the top 20 universities in the UK for Fashion and Textiles (Guardian University Guide 2023).
The BA Fashion Design course has an established global reputation. Graduates are industry ready and renowned for their creativity combined with strong technical knowledge and skills in The BA Fashion knitwear course offers an optional placement year in industry. Graduates have comprehensive technical knowledge and skill and able to take full creative control of the design and creation of fabrics and garment within a contemporary fashion context.
Alumni are working globally for leading brands such as Calvin Klein, Hugo boss, G-star and leading suppliers to UK high street retailers and established fashion labels such as Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs, Julian McDonald and Dries van Noton.
Ravensbourne's internationally-renowned, award-winning fashion programmes cover all aspects of the fashion industry and offer students an opportunity to gain a strong foundation in research, design and concept development with technical and practical skills. Through Ravensbourne’s focus on digital innovation, students are encouraged to experiment with digital manufacture in our prototyping labs, explore new wearable technologies, materials and sustainability alongside traditional techniques. With a strong record of placements and holding a steadfast reputation in the fashion world, the courses produce industry-ready graduates who have gone on to work at Stella McCartney, Tom Ford, Christopher Kane, Burberry, NIKE and COS, amongst others.
Ravensbourne alumni include LFW designers Paria Farzaneh, and Eden Loweth of Art School, Clare Waight-Keller, Fatima Minana, Cristiana Alagna and David Bowie.
Today, time and the perception of time has to be considered. That to become a designer overnight is only for a few and that most of us take a life time to achieve, if we ever. But time is key to build experience, understand the failure as well as the success, to explore beyond the walls of education and find your wider tribe…this all takes time and it is valuable, valid and with a commitment and tenacity that is required in our global world right now. Of course there is a parallel time set where everything moves very fast and instincts here are essential - hence the real truth of your own sense of self is so key in defining your next steps whether in the fast time or the slow time of your life, adventure and routes.
RCA FASHION ask you to be true.
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Sheffield Hallam University are an award-winning university, recently receiving Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework for outstanding support for student success and progression.
We provide people from all backgrounds with the opportunity to acquire the skills, knowledge and experience to succeed at whatever they choose to do.
As one of the UK’s largest and most progressive universities, our teaching, research and partnerships are characterised by a focus on real world impact - addressing the health, economic and social challenges facing society today.
We are ambitious for our university, our students, our colleagues, our partners, our city and our region. Our vision is to be the world's leading applied university; showing what a university genuinely focused on transforming lives can achieve.
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At UCA, creativity makes global communities more vibrant, more innovative, and more human. For 160 years, UCA has been a passionate advocate for creativity, tailoring students’ education to help forge the path that’s right for them. The fashion courses have established UCA an enviable international reputation for producing highly-skilled and sought-after graduates, ready to launch their careers on the global fashion stage. With courses in Fashion Design, Atelier and Tailoring, Textiles, Fashion Image & Styling, Fashion Photography, Digital Fashion, and Makeup & Hair Design, UCA is a place to work at the highest levels of the industry.
University of Brighton, Fashion with Business Studies is an internationally acclaimed course, combining highly creative design with technical skill and craft expertise. The unique integration of Business Studies within the curriculum and opportunities for a year's industry experience prepares graduates with the necessary practical knowledge and creative skills for employment in the competitive global fashion industry.
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Our story started in 1898. We've survived wars, celebrated momentous sporting events and fought against society's biggest sustainability issues. Now in the digital age, the world of work is rapidly changing, and we're adapting to ensure our graduates have the skills and resilience to succeed in their careers and make a positive impact on society and the planet.
School of Design at University of Leeds unites creativity technology, innovation and enterprise. Fashion-related BA and MA courses range from fashion design, marketing, technology, global management to enterprise and social impact. Their programmes develop creativity in a stimulating research environment offering insight into the fashion industry and specialist knowledge from marketing, technology, social issues to global business. University of Leeds is University of the Year 2017, awarded by The Times and Sunday Times’ Good University Guide which recognises the outstanding student experiences at Leeds.
Graduate Preview 2021 Featured Students:
Chloe Ashkboos
Liberty Ball
Lucy Barker
Amy Boulter
Joanne Boulter
Katharine Buckley
Phoebe Chinn
Beth Francis
Gabby Keeble
Rose Kelly
Zihan Mei
Angela Olsen
Lucie Rising
Niamh Vickers
Beth Walley
Evie Walters
Ziqi Wang
BA (Hons) Fashion Design at the University of Salford is a highly creative and successful programme, ranked by BoF in the top 20 fashion schools globally. Its located next to Manchester city centre in New Adelphi building and has extensive, state of the art studio space and resources. Students have interned at a wide range of aspirational global brands such as: Victor & Rolf, Karl Lagerfeld, Iris Van Herpen, Alexander McQueen, Adam Lippes, Peter Pilotto and Aitor Throup. Their graduates have gone onto develop successful and diverse careers in fashion at all levels of the fashion industry including working for: Burberry, Max Mara, Peter Pilotto, H&M, Adidas, Levi's, Zara.
Graduate Preview 2022 Featured Students:
Abbie Amy Burkinshaw
Aleks Kaleniecki
Beth Moorman
Celestine Etania Wang
Charlie Catlow
Daisy Webb
Emma Money
Erin Sloan
Eve Haddley
Grace Gudgeon
Jaymi Lyon
Kendal McDermott
Lorna Gibson
Lottie O'Byrne
Lucrezia Licheri
Lydia Highfield
Megan Holian
Millie Leicester
Natalia Higham
Samantha Chapman
Thalis Chrysostomou
Wingyee Chan
Yasmeen Wilson
BA(Hons) Fashion Design at the University of South Wales offers experience of the fashion industry beyond the university environment. Our students engage in a research and process-driven approach to solve complex design issues, nurturing innovation and creativity through digital and physical realisation. Our student-centred approach focuses on developing strenghts, skills and capabilities for life after graduation. We scored 100% student satisfaction NSS and rated top in the UK for teaching and assessment satisfaction across fashion and textile courses. (Guardian League tables).
We advocate an anti-elitist and inclusive approach to fashion, seeking to challenge the problematic elements of the industry whilst honouring fashion’s potential to be radical, thought-provoking, innovative and embracing of the full spectrum of humanity. We educate change-makers. Our graduates are using fashion as a vehicle to address disability politics, racial inequality, garment worker’s rights and environmental issues.
Fashion Textiles at UWE is a broad experimental programme that enables Students to explore the breadth of opportunities available within the Fashion Textile industries – from Textile Print, Knit and Fashion Design through to Futures thinking and alternative modes of Fashion production. Students develop work for different Outcomes that include – Fashion design, Textile design or Fashion Textile Futures and work towards progression routes into Industry, Enterprise or Pos-Graduate Study. The programme is 3yrs full-time, 4 yrs including a Placement Year in Industry.
Renowned in its ranks amongst London’s great fashion schools, Westminster is at the forefront of quality creative education in the UK, something which is at the foundation of its status as a global fashion centre and breeding ground for next generation talent. Notable Westminster alumni include S.S.Daley, Ashley Williams, Paolo Carzana, Priya Ahluwalia, Robyn Lynch, Stuart Vevers, Christopher Bailey, and Katie Hillier.
Winchester School of Art (WSA) are proud to be one of the UK’s leading art and design institutions and part of the world renowned University of Southampton.
WSA is an international centre of ideas and innovation and have a long history going back 150 years. They offer an industry standard teaching environment with traditional facilities alongside the latest digital technologies. With generous space and resources students are able to ‘learning by doing’ in fully equipped studios. Smaller student numbers enable our industry experienced staff to provide personal support and offer students professional opportunities.
In the live projects, designers meet the students, share their experience and select students for internships.Students can study abroad or take a Year in Employment. WSA alumni work in a range of prestigious companies in the UK and internationally, including Burberry, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen and more.
Graduate Preview 2021 Featured Students:
Emily Erskine
Lydia Vere Gilbertson
Katie Charlotte Greenham
Sophie Hicks
Yubing Luo
Jessica Morris
Georgia Alice Pescud
Cheng Qian
Mercedes Ridge
Caroline Lita Streat
Hannah Steel
Hannah Vatcher
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BFC SCHOLARS
The BFC Foundation backs the next wave of fashion talent with scholarships—meet our BFC scholars.
- Aaron Adkins
- Aleksandra Dulic Mezak
- Aliyah Dankwah
- Ayham Hassan
- Benjamin Savizon
- Frankie Staples
- James Rowland
- Luke Saul
- She Carmona
- Taya Francis
- Zahra Al-Najjar
- Abdula Ahmad
- Ayobami Ajetomobi
- Cléa Henry-Gabriel-Calixte
- Elizabeth Uno-Ekwang/ Arielle
- George Zverko
- Geraint Brian Lewis
- Kyra Ho
- Megan Alloh
- Molly Putner
- Nafisat Oluwatimisola Shasanya
- Oliver Clarke
- Renée-Shanel Edwards
- Reuben Harris
- Sabrina Nieddu
- William Palmer
- Yodea Marquel Williams