Fashion Atelier (with Integrated Foundation & Professional Practice Years) - BA (Hons)

University for the Creative Arts

BA (Hons) Fashion Atelier with Integrated Foundation Year and Professional Practice Year is a five-year degree programme, including a foundation year to help develop your skills and creativity before you start the first year of the degree course and your fourth year would be an industry placement to further develop your skills and CV.Train to craft high-end garments for luxury brands. The UK’s only Fashion Atelier degree. Most fashion courses teach you to design, this one teaches you to make – an advantage that will follow you for life. In fashion, an atelier is a specialised workshop where skilled designers craft high-end garments. The course was built in direct response to what the industry kept asking for: designers who understand how garments are actually made. You'll learn bespoke tailoring, couture sewing, bias cutting, and fabric manipulation – skills that have become increasingly rare, and increasingly in-demand.If you want more than a portfolio of ideas – if you want to own every step of the process, from first drape to final stitch – this is where that happens. You'll cut, drape, construct, and finish luxury pieces to demanding standards, graduating with the creative confidence and technical skills to forge an outstanding and distinctive career in high-end fashion.

School of Fashion and Textiles