Fashion expresses our values, culture and society. More importantly, the BA (Hons) Fashion Design at Cardiff Metropolitan University influences and shapes them. So when you become a fashion designer, you become an influencer.Ê

You will explore your individual talents through the professional design process, which creates freedom with constraints and reflectivity with spontaneity. The course embeds innovation and risk taking right into the design process from concept to final product, with consideration for commercial viability and creativity at its core.

You will become multi-skilled, flexible, resourceful and creative fashion practitioners with well-developed transferable and interpersonal skills. You will work within a creative environment with well-equipped workshops and studios that support and create our vibrant student community where personal talent and individual development are shared, exchanged and nurtured.

YouÕll also gain an understanding of the ethical issues facing the fashion industry. So you graduate as a responsible designer ready to shape the industry.

Employability & Careers?:

?During the course emphasis will have been placed upon your work ethic, both creatively and academically, matched with significant focus on real experience in industry and with the current issues in the world of Fashion design. The strength of this course is that as well as giving you an insight into the glamour and excitement of the industry, your studies will include real world skills development and will ask challenging questions of ethical and ecological practice in an international context.

In addition to the role of the designer, associated specialisms that might interest you as career options leading from your studies are: Garment Technology, Accessory Design, Retail Buying, Fashion Illustration, Merchandising, Fashion Styling, Textile design, Fashion Public Relations, Fashion Writing/Blogging. ?