Creative Practice: Fashion Design and Clothing- Level 3 Diploma (UAL)

If you are interested in launching your own fashion brand, this course offers an opportunity to explore, develop, and extend your creativity through stimulating and challenging studies. You will enhance your skills and knowledge by completing projects and assignments that simulate realistic workplace situations, activities, and industry demands.

You will learn a range of disciplines, including fashion illustration, pattern cutting and sewing, marketing, and business studies, and build on your knowledge of traditional and digital printing using state-of-the-art digital technologies.

Day-to-day, you will engage in practical workshops, lectures, gallery visits, and independent research. You will learn new skills and develop experience using several specialist materials, techniques, and processes. You will also develop your presentation and communication skills through contextual studies, ideas and concepts, visual communication, and through presentations to tutors and peer groups. All teaching staff are experts in their fields and passionate about helping their students uniquely expand their fashion design, business, and textile skills.

The highlight of the course is when students create a mini collection and a marketing plan to launch both physically and digitally online. This innovative course prepares students to understand the various aspects of fashion today, making them business-ready for careers within the industry or for launching their own brand.

Topics covered can include:

• Drawing and illustration
• Contextual studies
• Visual research, design and presentation
• Pattern cutting
• Garment construction
• Textiles
• Digital printing
• Fashion communication

A whole level 2 qualification and a portfolio of art/fashion work.

The course is assessed throughout the year, culminating in an end-of-course portfolio.

AGED 16 - 18

If you will be aged 16, 17 or 18 on 31st August 2025 before the start date of the course, and you have the legal right to remain in the UK for the duration of your course then your study with us will be free.

Please see here for the documents you need to show us.

Some courses have additional costs, such as specialist materials and trips.

Many of our students are eligible for financial support. See here for details.

This course will help you to move on to higher-level classes, such as a Bachelor of Arts, an apprenticeship, other employment or prepare you to start your own brand.