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Study Details: Graduate Diploma 1 year full-time
The Postgraduate Diploma in Fashion supports you to develop your creative identity in response to the changing landscape of the fashion industry. The course challenges you to demonstrate deep consideration and resourcefulness and push past traditional boundaries, to create your own distinct design narrative for a global market. We recruit graduates from Fashion and related disciplines, helping you to refine your work, primarily to progress to further study or directly to employment.
We guide students to become thoughtful practitioners, whose work is positioned within an ethical framework that considers social, racial and climate justice.
You will be encouraged to enhance your ideas by working across disciplines and through collaboration, as part of a supportive community.
You will design and produce practical or digital final outcomes, with opportunities to explore other specialist areas such as Knit or Print.
You will be guided by industry practitioners to develop your creativity and communicate rigour in your process and thought. Through this experience, you will benefit from the learning and teaching methods that have produced some of the world’s leading fashion designers.
Our graduates go on to work in a wide range of careers in fashion. Many complete Masters degrees in the UK and overseas: in Fashion and Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins, at London College of Fashion, Royal College of Art, Parsons New York and IFM in Paris.
In the Central Saint Martins Fashion Programme, we work to be at the heart of debate about the future of fashion. Our students are designers, communicators and academics. Teaching is our core purpose and our research, industry and external relationships enrich our approach. We are committed to reflecting and influencing the sustainable transformation of the industry. Social, racial and climate justice are our core values and we believe in a fairer world for all. Our outlook is international, inclusive and diverse, reflecting the global nature of our community. We believe we must constantly challenge ourselves to shape fair and ethical opportunities in fashion. We believe in the power of cooperation, collaboration and partnerships through both analogue and digital experiences.
The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:
AP(E)L – Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning
Exceptionally applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Each application will be considered on its own merit but cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
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The Graduate Diploma in Fashion is one of a number of related courses in the Fashion programme.
During their studies students are guided by some of the most eminent and experienced current practitioners in the field of fashion enabling them to benefit from the teaching and learning methods which have produced some of the world's leading fashion design professionals.
The Graduate Diploma in Fashion has been created to produce mature and sophisticated designers equipped to work in and design for the international market. You will leave the course with a portfolio and realised design work that will effectively support entry into employment in the fashion industry and access to postgraduate study.
Graduates of the course progress to postgraduate study on a wide range of well established courses in London, the UK and elsewhere in Europe including: Central Saint Martins' MA Fashion (Womenswear and Menswear) and MA Textiles Futures courses; MA Fashion at the Royal College of Art; MA Fashion at Arnhem; MA Fashion Design and Technology (Womenswear and Menswear), MA Digital Fashion, MA Fashion Marketing and MA Footwear Design (all at London College of Fashion); MA Design and Environment at Goldsmiths and MA Fashion at Westminster University, or go on to establish design careers in London, the UK and Europe as well as their home countries.
Unit 1: Diagnostic: Research and Creative Development
Unit 1 has a diagnostic function, introducing you to the course team and the Fashion programme. You will be expected to create work and present your ideas to the tutors and your peers for discussion and critique. You will work on a number of projects, allowing your tutors to assess your practice and support your development. You will also be introduced to fashion within a global context and consider sustainability and social, racial, and climate justice in design.
The unit culminates in a project which enhances and consolidates your skills in working creatively to a design brief.
Unit 2: Final Project and Portfolio: Development and Resolution
In this unit, you will define the rationale for your final design project. You will use the skills and knowledge developed in Unit 1 to realise design work that resolves a self-directed design challenge. The major part of this period is given over to the completion of a final project that effectively communicates what you have gained from the course. This unit comprises completed creative work, together with a portfolio of design work. This unit concludes with final assessment.
Credit and award requirements
The course is credit-rated at 120 credits at HE Level 6. All units must be passed in order to achieve the Graduate Diploma and there is a single exit point.
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