BA (Hons) Fashion Design - Menswear (with Diploma in Professional Studies)

University of the Arts London

Push menswear forward through research-led design that responds to culture, identity and the world around you.

BA Fashion Design comprises five pathways: Womenswear, Menswear, Knit, Print, and Communication. We encourage collaboration at every stage, and throughout the course you will work on projects with the other courses and with students of the BA Fashion Communication course. As a program we encourage students to break down all societal barriers and perceptions when describing gender and identity. We embrace a non-gendered approach. However, when describing the foundational skills and techniques students learn on specific pathways, we have retained the ‘Menswear’ title.

The Menswear Design pathway has a fearless approach that supports and challenges students to develop the unexpected through in-depth research, a broad range of ideas development, and reflecting on motivation and outcomes. Students work on a broad range of creative projects, with pathway tutors, specialist staff, expert technicians and industry practitioners. All projects demand a willingness to honour and subvert boundaries, learn technical expertise, and to develop an attitude of professionalism. Project briefs, including those that are self-negotiated, are designed to incite responses to world issues, including climate and sustainability, race, disability, and inclusion. In this way, students can learn to contextualise their practice in ways that have the potential to establish meaningful change.

BA Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins is globally renowned. The course has an excellent staff team of highly experienced practitioners and researchers with international profiles who come from diverse backgrounds and remain connected to their industry and are at the forefront of fashion. Students are innovators, critical thinkers, and trailblazers and thrive within the lively and dynamic art school environment that differentiates fashion at CSM from other fashion courses. Students learn through different experiences as a community, they are encouraged to connect, working with peers and industry to strengthen their learning, understanding, and opportunities.

In the Central Saint Martins Fashion Programme, we work to be at the heart of the debate about the future of fashion. Learning 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 responds to decolonising the curriculum agendas by focusing on inclusive and diverse fashion pedagogical thinking and practices that reflect the international nature of our community and global fashion systems. We believe we must constantly challenge ourselves to shape ethical approaches in creative practice.