MA Fashion: Design

MA Fashion: Design at CSVPA is an intensive, contemporary and personalised postgraduate programme which encourages the development of an individual approach to fashion design practice and the articulation of a distinctively value-driven vision. Working within the interdisciplinary and conceptually informed environment of the Graduate School, you will develop the professional skills, confidence and creative focus necessary to embark on a career within contemporary fashion.

The course welcomes applicants with interests across diverse aspects of contemporary fashion design, including approaches to integrating circular economy, collaboration and craft practice, novel approaches to sustainable fashion, concepts of cultural hybridity in fashion, as well as experimentation in the field of digital fashion.

Unique Opportunities At The CSVPA Graduate School

This programme offers outstanding specialist tuition combined with extensive academic contact and studio access. As a Master’s student you benefit from:

• Expert tuition from industry-active professional designers, artists, visual communicators and researchers, with unrivalled understanding of contemporary art and design practices, the importance of visual intelligence and experimental approaches to learning, and a passion for sharing their knowledge and skills.
• Imaginative and contemporary project briefs, which prioritise experimental practical approaches, and which are underpinned by research-led conceptual understanding.
• Unique opportunities to engage in creative collaborations with Academic Faculty, Departments, Colleges, Doctoral Researchers and Undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge.
• Exclusive access to contemporary creative industry expertise, by means of workshops, talks and projects, as well as the opportunity to participate in a competitive internship scheme in partnership with Hearst Magazines UK, publisher of titles including Digital Spy, ELLE, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle Decoration.
• Intensive learning experiences tailored to your needs and ambitions, with high levels of personalised support and extensive 1:1 tutorial time.
• A postgraduate qualification that will help you to gain distinctiveness and further your creative and professional ambitions.
• Collaborating with a creative, interdisciplinary and global postgraduate community, developing individual skills in a sharing and collective context.
• Studio workspace, accessible every day of the week.
• Access to specialist art and design resources.
• A small, supportive and specialist creative arts college in a beautiful, historic and cultural city—a creative hotspot and home to one of the UK’s most dynamic and international student communities.

Resources & Facilities

All students on our MA programmes have access to a wide range of resources to support their studies and the hybrid nature of contemporary practice across art and design including:

• Industrial sewing machines and technical support from garment technicians and specialist pattern cutters.
• Digital Media hardware and technical support, including A3 scanner.
• Photography studios and access to analogue darkroom facilities.
• Wood, metal, and ceramics 3D workshops and technical support.
• Unlimited access to professional TaskAlpha A3 photocopier/printer
• Prototype Lab (including 3D printer and laser-cutter).
• Industrial sewing machines and technical support from garment technicians.
• Additional Learning Support