Ready to Design Your Future?
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UAL Level 3 Diploma in Creative Practice: Art Design & Communication – Fashion
Turn your love of clothes into a career. This is where you learn to design, make and style, and find the part of fashion that fits you. You'll work in our fashion studio with industry-standard kit, develop your own ideas into real garments, and build a portfolio ready for university, industry, or your own label. See your work on the catwalk at our end-of-year show.
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How you’ll learn
From First Sketch to Final Stitch.
This course takes you through the whole process of making fashion. You’ll develop your own ideas into collections of garments through research, experimentation and real practical skills. You’ll learn garment construction and pattern cutting using traditional sewing techniques alongside digital design, all on industry-standard equipment in our fashion studio.
Fashion is a broad world, and this year helps you find your lane, whether that’s design, styling or production. You’ll build a strong portfolio, get real experience through live projects, and show your work on the catwalk. You’ll finish ready for your next step: university, an apprenticeship, or straight into the industry.
What You'll Study
- Visual language in art and design
- Research skills in art and design
- Critical and contextual awareness in art and design
- Material processes and technical skills in art and design
- Opportunities for progression in art, design and media
Entry and progression
What you need and where it leads
- Entry requirements
- This course Level 3
- Further study
Entry requirements
- Five GCSEs at Grade 4 or above, including English and Maths
- A portfolio to show your creative abilities at interview
- A genuine love of fashion and self-expression
- Successful interview with our team
Not sure about your portfolio? Don't worry. Bring what you have, and we'll talk it through with you at your interview.
Not sure you meet these? Talk to us and we will help you find the right starting point.
Careers it can lead to
- Clothing, Fashion and Accessories Designers £42,400 a year
- Textiles, Garments and Related Trades £25,400 a year
Typical pay is the UK median for each job (Lightcast, October 2026).
Life on the course
See what it’s really like
Our facilities
Your Fashion Studio
An industry-standard fashion studio with the machinery and resources to take a design from first sketch to finished garment, led by tutors with real industry experience.
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Industry-Standard Fashion Studio
Machinery and resources to take your designs from first sketch to final stitch.
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The End-of-Year Catwalk
Show your designs in our fashion show and exhibition.
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Expert Tutors and Live Projects
Learn from tutors with real industry experience, on real briefs.
Industry-Standard Studio · End-of-Year Catwalk
Student Voice
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College has helped me find what I want to do and express myself. I've met amazing people and always felt supported by my tutors. I plan to start my own freelance fashion styling business and feel confident about going into the industry.
For parents and carers
Supporting your child’s journey
A Friendly, Welcoming Place
Students are often surprised by how friendly and welcoming college is. It's a supportive community where they'll build genuine friendships and feel part of something.
About student lifeGCSE Support Built In
If your child needs to resit GCSE English or Maths, it's built into the timetable, not bolted on as an extra. They'll get structured support alongside their main course.
About student supportTutors With Real Experience
Our tutors bring real industry experience into the classroom. They teach what's actually used in the world of work, and students consistently say this is what makes the course work.
Your next step
Apply now, come and see us first, or ask us anything.
Want to visit first?
FE Open Event – 12th January 202712th January 4:30pm to 7:00pm
Got a question?
Ask us about the course, entry requirements or funding.
Call 0800 358 7575
What happens after you apply
1
You apply
Apply online and you’ll get a confirmation email.
2
You meet your tutor
We’ll invite you to an interview to talk through the course and your plans, and make sure it’s right for you.
3
You get an offer
We’ll email you a conditional or unconditional offer.
4
You get ready to start
Come to a taster session in the summer, then enrol in August, bringing your results.