BA (Hons) Fashion

About LCCA

For creative, innovative, and artistic individuals LCCA is the best place to kickstart your career. We offer a range of practical programs awarded by the University for the Creative Arts (UCA). UCA was the highest-placed specialist creative university in The Guardian’s 2021 University League Table. From fashion and graphic design to business and hospitality, our undergraduate and postgraduate programs will help you get industry-ready.

The Course

The BA (Hons) Fashion course at the LCCA Campus is a highly desirable place to study, located within central London with a friendly, dynamic, and creative community of staff and students. You will study across a wide range of fashion-related courses. The philosophy of the course is to provide a friendly, creative, and professional learning environment that enables you to be curious and experimental in your design thinking and your practical work. You are encouraged to take risks and engage in a wide range of creative projects to support the development of professional skills and innovative design practices for the global marketplace.

Our teaching focus is placed upon the development of versatile and adaptable fashion designers who are equipped with the essential skills and know-how to be able to respond to both conceptual and commercial briefs, underpinned by a sound knowledge of the fashion industry and a critical understanding of the social, cultural, economic, sustainable and environmental factors influencing the professional environment.

While you are on the course, you will also develop a wide range of practical skills within areas of pattern cutting, garment manufacture, drape, tailoring, fabric manipulation, and constructed textiles, as well as professional image-making and visual communication skills within areas of design drawing, illustration work and use of mixed media, photography and styling, portfolio presentation and computer-aided design, which are all key to the distinctive quality and success of our fashion graduates.

Our fashion graduates progress with transferable and holistically formed expertise, which will prepare you for postgraduate study or to establish careers within the global fashion industry equipped with comprehensive employability skills for a highly competitive and constantly changing employment market.

Course Requirements

We take a balanced approach to candidate assessment, taking both individual portfolios and exam results into account.

That’s why your portfolio is an essential part of your application to study with us – and we can help. Our academics can offer you expert advice on how to showcase your creative work and build a portfolio that will make your application stand out.

More advice on creating an exceptional portfolio and specific portfolio requirements for this course are also available here.

Along with your portfolio, the standard entry requirements for this course are:

• 112 UCAS tariff points from accepted qualifications, or
• Pass at Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Level 3 or 4), or
• Distinction, Merit, Merit at BTEC Extended Diploma, or
• Merit at UAL Extended Diploma, or
• 112 UCAS tariff points from an accredited Access to Higher Education Diploma in an appropriate subject, or
• 27 points in the International Baccalaureate, see more information about IB entry requirements

And 4 GCSE passes at grades A-C and grades 4-9 including English and Maths.

Other relevant and equivalent level 3 UK and international qualifications are considered individually, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds to apply.

If your first language is not English, you need an IELTS score of 6.0 or equivalent. If you require a visa to study in the UK, you will also need a minimum score of 5.5 in each component.

Career Path

The scope of this fashion course enables our graduates to secure a range of positions at different levels of the industry, such as:

• Design co-ordinator
• Fashion technologist/fashion sourcing
• Product development
• Visual merchandiser
• Pattern cutter and seamstress
• Fashion buyer
• Fashion designer
• Retail buyer
• Stylist
• Textile designer
• Clothing/textile technologist
• Garment technologist.