MA Fashion Design

Istituto Marangoni London

These full time postgraduate level courses are highly specialised programmes that support participants’ careers the fashion, luxury and creative industries. They are designed for those who have already acquired specific skills in the appropriate area at undergraduate level, or for industry professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge of a specific subject area in fashion.The MA Fashion Design programme provides a framework in which you can develop your knowledge and understanding of fashion design and your creative potential as a contemporary fashion practitioner. Through a structured programme of classes, you will gain insights into cultural, social and environmental contexts, emerging schools of thought, evolving concepts of luxury, new creative technologies, and the role of fashion design in shaping sustainable futures.MA Fashion Design adopts the signature Istituto Marangoni pedagogical approach of experiential learning, through project-based activities and live briefs that mirror or challenge industry practices. Through this approach, the MA Fashion Design programme develops your practical and design skills for fashion alongside the critical and creative thinking that is crucial to its future. The programme is taught by a dynamic team of lecturers, critical fashion practitioners, researchers, and industry professionals: we believe this provides you with the ideal foundation of support from which to effectively engage with and challenge current fashion design practices and to develop new waysto conceptualise luxury through fashion. Units are designed to mirror a variety of traditional and emerging industry practices that will push you to think outside the box, as you work on a series of live projects. Lectures and technical sessions are supported with input by guest speakers from industry, as well as new creative talents. Throughout the programme, you will explore, extend, and define your own distinct identity as a fashion designer of the future.

Manchester Fashion Institute