About Course

• 1 Year
• Full-time  

• New kinds of fashion practitioners are needed, who are able to think critically, creatively and collaboratively, with a holistic understanding, vision and skills that will enable the fashion industry to transition to a responsible and regenerative future. This innovative, cross-disciplinary Masters programme provides an essential space for students with fashion design, textiles, business or other relevant backgrounds to gain the important knowledge, critical thinking and problem-solving capacities required to innovate new responsible fashion systems that radically reimagine luxury for the Anthropocene and help to lead positive change.

  LEARNING FOCUS:

  • Critical debates and ethical positions for fashion and luxury
  • Alternative economics, ecology and systems thinking for fashion
  • Human-earth relationships, regenerative and indigenous knowledge systems
  • Futuring and creative problem-solving
  • The dynamic synergies between theory and practice
  • New business models and new design practices for a responsible future.

  CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:

  • Setting up or transforming their own business
  • Transforming their own design practice
  • Responsible fashion/design/business consultancy
  • Responsible product development
  • Work with charities, NGOs or social enterprises.
  • Researcher

  This programme will equip students with the ability to engage with and respond to the seismic changes happening in the fashion industry and in the luxury sector specifically. The industry needs people that can help it find solutions rather than perpetuate its problems; it is therefore anticipated that this programme will produce highly employable, forward-looking graduates that will offer new insights that lead change rather than following existing industry practice.