Design: Investigating Fashion Design (2014 start)

Please note: this course is not running in 2013, the next intake will be in October 2014.

Investigating Fashion Design is concerned with the study, analysis and written critique of historical and contemporary dress in a museum environment.

Photographs on this page are courtesy of Bath and North East Somerset Council – Fashion Museum. Photographs of the Fashion Museum displays by James Davis and Shaw & Shaw.

Why study Design: Investigating Fashion Design (2014 start)?

Students will work with curators and museum professionals as well as academics and designers in order to fuse theory and practice and to develop innovative approaches to the study, display and dissemination of fashionable dress. Additionally, students are encouraged to present their research in a public arena and are offered the opportunity to study for a Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Learning.

Researchers on this course will engage with the wealth of fashionable dress resources held in the internationally renowned Fashion Museum, Bath. The course aims to enable students to work independently with the collection, whilst attending supporting lecture and seminar programmes. These will develop an understanding of fashion and its contexts through objects, and museum based study.