Master of Arts in Fashion Design Istituto Marangoni, UK

The MA Fashion Design programme provides a framework in which you can develop your knowledge and understanding of fashion design and your creative potential as a contemporary fashion practitioner. Through a structured programme of classes, you will gain insights into cultural, social and environmental contexts, emerging schools of thought, evolving concepts of luxury, new creative technologies, and the role of fashion design in shaping sustainable futures.

Working to design briefs that present exciting and challenging opportunities to develop and extend your skills – and in response to new developments in the industry or new potentialities - fashion design classes will be supported and sometimes fluidly integrated with practical workshop sessions that enhance your understanding of the design process (in 2D and 3D), and how to both innovate and refine your ideas for specific markets and/or local or global imperatives. In this way, you will cultivate your skills as a critical fashion design practitioner that is equipped with the problem-solving abilities required to address foreseen and unforeseen challenges and opportunities.

Within this carefully structured framework, you will be expected to work with increasing imagination, creativity and autonomy and to progress your learning and project work substantially outside of class, as well as your understanding of what fashion is and what it might become. The programme primarily focuses on womenswear but recognises the limitations of this term and therefore is open to genderless fashion and other expressions of contemporary clothing. In addition, this programme supports the formation of the collaborative and multidisciplinary skills and perspectives that are now considered essential to the future.

As the course progresses, emphasis is placed increasingly upon your design vision and your practice-based research, as you extend and refine your personal design identity and develop a personal design manifesto. The course culminates in a substantial dissertation project that may comprise a small, capsule collection supported by a written dissertation.