BA (Hons) Sustainable Fashion and Management

BA (Hons) Sustainable Fashion and Management is a needed, educational directive that focuses on re-contextualizing the process of design analysis, development, and production in fashion education. The professional designer of today and tomorrow need to focus on their ability to design systems and products that utilize existing garments and digital technologies in order to tackle the humanitarian crisis of overconsumption. BA (Hons) Sustainable Fashion and Management focuses on the use of existing garments as a material resource. Collaborating with companies that have expertise in the area in order to develop a curriculum that would include garment analysis, consumer analysis, circular systems, production management, and 3-dimensional exploration. The course explores theoretical approaches that underpin the relevance of ‘circular system’ fashion production and the areas of ‘repair and re-use’. The course will be utilizing the expertise of existing fashion staff and industry experts in order to maintain a relevant curriculum that offers skills and attributes relevant to the industry. The course will explore the utilization of 3D modeling and rendering software in order to develop a rapid prototyping discipline that drastically minimizes the need for material resources and offers a key driver in specific digital skill sets that are relevant to cross-disciplinary subjects within the field of arts and digital industries.

Year 1

• Technical Skills and Innovation
• Fashion Contexts and Research
• Sustainable Fashion Perspectives (Subject to Validation)
• Sustainable Production and Operations Management (Subject to Validation)
• Fashion Enterprise 1
• Mental Wealth; Professional Life Business of Fashion 1

Year 2

• Technical Applications
• Circular Retail Models (Subject to Validation)
• Theory of Fashion
• Mental Wealth; Professional Life Business of Fashion 2
• Fashion Reuse and Repurpose (Subject to Validation)
• Fashion Enterprise 2

This course offers the opportunity for year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organization, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

• Final Major Project: Theoretical Identity
• Digitization and E-commerce for Sustainability (Subject to Validation)
• Future Materials and Fibres (Subject to Validation)
• Mental Wealth; Professional Life Business of Fashion 3
• Fashion Enterprise 3

Employability

Fashion is an industry full of vast opportunities and much-needed skill sets that are continually involving. The great thing about studying fashion and developing core skills is that you can work practically anywhere within the creative industries. Studying sustainable fashion and management will give you the opportunity to work in various sectors such as logistics and supply, textiles, and even engineering. Jobs include business development manager, fabric technologist, production manager, innovation manager, sustainability consultant, product researcher, and much more. Having a key understanding of ethics, textile technology, and circular systems, will give students studying this degree a key advantage in the careers market.