Fashion Communication & Styling (Accelerated Degree)

The fashion media landscape is constantly evolving, and with our BA (Hons) Fashion Communication & Styling degree you’ll learn the essential skills needed for a successful career in fashion media or styling. You’ll develop the aesthetic and technical skills as well as the theoretical knowledge needed to create engaging communications for the fashion industry. This course has been created in collaboration with industry to give students the most up-to-date knowledge and skills.

Through lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and projects, you’ll develop the essential aesthetic, technical and communication skills required to start a career in fashion styling, PR, art direction or content creation.

You will:
- Learn the technical skills needed to create engaging and exciting fashion-focused communications strategies

- Be assigned a personal industry mentor to work with throughout the course

- Develop the technical, research, creative and analytical skills needed for an image and communications-driven role

- Understand how to draw on cultural influences to create inspiring visual media

- Discover how live social channels have disrupted the fashion industry and changed the future of media broadcasting

- Work on live projects and complete work placements with our industry partners

- Complete a self-directed Personal Professional Project that allows you to demonstrate your skills and knowledge

Industry Enrichment

We work with over 140 brands at the FRA. Our courses include practical, industry-focused content taught by some of fashion’s biggest names to give you valuable skills and work experience.

Industry enrichment opportunities include:

Industry mentorship scheme: Work with your own dedicated industry mentor throughout your course. You’ll meet a minimum of once a term, and they’ll be there to support and guide you.

Work placements: You’ll have a work placement with one of our brand partners each year. In the first year of your undergraduate degree, you’ll complete a three-week work placement. In your second year, your work placement will be either 3 weeks full time or two days a week over 3 months.

Talks, masterclasses and live industry projects: Attend talks and masterclasses led by some of the top names in fashion and retail, and complete projects set by industry partners who will give you feedback and advice.