The purpose of the BA Fashion Design program is to develop fashion designers, problem finders, and problem-solvers that have the competence to work independently as entrepreneurial fashion designers.

Our Fashion BA (hons) course helps students cultivate a distinctive design identity and to develop creative and practical fashion skills. Our expert team of core staff are complimented by a wide range of visiting guest lecturers from global brands to independent designers.

Our Fashion BA (Hons) degree was ranked No.1 in London for Fashion in The Guardian University Guide league table 2023 and was one of a handful of worldwide institutions to be awarded four badges of excellence by the Business of Fashion (for Best Overall, Best in Global Influence, Best in Learning Experience and Best in Long-term Value). We have been ranked in the top 25 Fashion Schools in the World, and one of only three in the UK, by Fashionista, the influential and trusted source of fashion news.

Our BA Honours Fashion Design degree will equip you with technical skills, support your creativity, and encourage you to develop your identity as a designer. You will cover a vast array of topics such as fashion illustration, portfolio presentation, technical drawings, garment construction and pattern cutting, corsetry, and tailoring.

The BA (Hons) Fashion course at the LCCA Campus is a highly desirable place to study, located within central London with a friendly, dynamic, and creative community of staff and students. You will study across a wide range of fashion-related courses. The philosophy of the course is to provide a friendly, creative, and professional learning environment that enables you to be curious and experimental in your design thinking and your practical work.

Our Fashion Business Management with Professional Experience BA is designed to create future leaders in the fashion, business and retail industries. In our course, you will explore the roles and interrelationships between buying, merchandising, supply chain and marketing.

Our Fashion Design BA has an exceptional reputation for being aligned with the international fashion industry and enabling you to have outstanding opportunities to engage with the industry throughout your course. We specialise in enabling you to become a highly original and individual creative designer, capable of working at the highest levels of the international fashion industry. We were the first undergraduate course to show at London Fashion Week and able to show in February 2020, prior to the national lockdown. Throughout our course, the emphasis is on the development of your personal design philosophy. Our course offers a comprehensive design education for dedicated and ambitious individuals looking for a specialist career in the international fashion industry. You'll also gain the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development. Our students gain an enormous amount of specific and transferable knowledge from working within the fashion industry, whether these are in the context of ‘live’ design projects at university or out on extended periods of work placement.

Our Fashion Design programme confidently prepares students for a career within the fashion industry. As well as learning the fundamentals of fashion design, students are taught about key elements of the fashion business, to enable their success in the fashion industry, and acquire creative, critical and communication skills. Extensive links and collaborations with our industrial partners help students to gain a ‘live’ learning experience.

The BA (Hons) Fashion Management and Marketing program focuses on the realities of the fashion industry and emphasizes employability and strategic approaches while promoting creative thinking within a commercial context. You will work with industry professionals and will undertake live, and industry-set briefs. In your second year, you will have the opportunity to undertake a period of work placement and will produce a critical analysis and future proposal for your placement company.

The BA (Hons) Fashion Media and Promotion is designed to produce innovative and imaginative fashion creatives, content creators, communicators, and promoters. The course prepares you to gain an understanding of the industry from a 360 perspective. You will develop skills and knowledge in concept, all the way through to promotion. The course is focused on ensuring you build a full and rounded understanding of every stage of the media process, including asset generation, publishing, media planning, and promotion.

The BA (Hons) in Fashion Design prepares professionals with a wide technical and cultural knowledge through learning concepts from the fashion field, based on creativity and analysis of the needs of the market.

Based at Locksbrook Campus in bespoke fashion design studios, this course provides a comprehensive design education for dedicated and ambitious individuals seeking a specialist career in the fashion industry. Our focus on the ethical, environmental and social contexts of fashion guides our creative process and approach.

The fashion industry is rapidly evolving: technological developments, global influences and shifts in consumer behaviour mean that there has never been a more exciting time to study Fashion Business. You will study fashion business models and strategies, marketing, buying, data analytics, with digital transformation, sustainability and responsible business practice being overarching principles.

The educational objective of the course is to train professionals in the fashion industry who are able to take part in the creative process, the value proposition, and the promotion of a brand or a fashion product and its defining style and aesthetic. Becoming a Fashion Stylist, which is a multidisciplinary and analytical profile, requires the completion of a transversal educational path that must include a solid cultural background and a strong understanding of the technical tools of photography, video-making, and the world of fashion. Fashion Stylists have the ability to create a wide framework of visual and aesthetic references for a brand and interpret and analyze trends.

The ability to style and promote fashion brands, design campaigns and publications and market fashion events creatively and effectively, form the basis of the Fashion Branding and Creative Communication course at CSVPA. With extensive connections to industry, easy access to London and more tutor time than most fashion courses, we will help you develop to your maximum creative potential and enable you to build the brand through creative communication.