Master of Arts - Fashion Communication: Histories and Theories
- 1 year
- Duration
- 33,870 GBP
- Price
- January
- Start
- November
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- London / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
The MA Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins is a forward-looking program designed to train the next generation of theorists, writers, journalists, and visual communicators. It addresses the industry's transformation by analyzing emergent media and exploring the needs of new consumers through both digital and traditional platforms.
The course is structured around three specialized pathways: Fashion Journalism, Fashion Image, and Fashion Histories and Theories, each offering deep, focused study while encouraging collaboration across disciplines. A core commitment to Social, Racial, and Climate Justice is embedded throughout, challenging structural inequalities and promoting equity within fashion. By blending practical skills with critical theory and collaborative projects, the program prepares graduates to navigate and shape the fluid, global future of fashion communication with creativity and ethical responsibility.
Program structure
- Unit 1: Investigation
Unit 1 is designed to challenge your assumptions and expand your understanding of the global fashion communications industry. You will study fashion within the context of art and design theory, examining its social, economic, and cultural impact. The unit also includes a collaborative project with MA Fashion designers, offering first-hand insight into collection creation and the chance to produce a creative or academic response to their work.
- Unit 2: The Collaborative Unit
Unit 2 runs concurrently with Unit 1 and focuses on inter- and cross-disciplinary collaboration with other postgraduate courses across the college. Taking place in the Spring term, this college-wide unit provides a structured framework for developing your practice in alignment with the institution's social purpose and mission.
- Unit 3: Specialist Major Project – Planning, Preparation and Negotiated Phase
The skills, knowledge, and innovative approaches developed throughout the first three units form the essential foundation for your self-initiated Major Project in Unit 4. They will directly inform and support the planning, preparation, and negotiation stages of this culminating work.
- Unit 4: Specialist Major Project – Realisation and Presentation Phase
Having completed Unit 3, during the final unit of the course you will fully realise and present your Major Project.
Price
Tuition fee:
- 30,890 GBP per education*
*Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.
You may need to cover additional costs which are not included in your tuition fees, such as materials and equipment specific to your course.
Requirements for applicants
The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:
- First-class or upper second-class honours degree from art and design BA courses or from disciplines such as history, literature, languages, history of art, visual culture, film studies and media studies
- Or an equivalent EU/international qualification.
Exceptionally applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered.
The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
- Related academic or work experience
- The quality of the personal statement
- A strong academic or other professional reference
- Or a combination of these factors.
Each application will be considered on its own merit but cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
English language requirements
- IELTS level 7.0 or above, with at least 6.0 in reading, writing, listening and speaking
About the university
The University of the Arts London (UAL) produces and encourages the creativity essential for a better future. Its colleges have been at the forefront of innovative education since 1842, creating work with a lasting impact on people and the planet, driven by curiosity, imagination, and purpose.
London is fundamental to UAL's identity, providing a vital context where the university connects and exchanges ideas with individuals from all walks of life. Globally, its creative network influences education, culture, business, and society.
Through innovative research and creative instruction, UAL's faculty and staff bring fresh perspectives to education. The university enables students to build the careers they desire by working with them at every level - from pre-degree to postgraduate, and from short courses to online learning.
UAL's colleges
Ranked second in the world for art and design, UAL comprises six distinct colleges:
- Camberwell College of Arts
- Central Saint Martins
- Chelsea College of Arts
- London College of Communication
- London College of Fashion
- Wimbledon College of Arts
Together, they form a community of creatives, innovators, trailblazers, and storytellers, united in their mission to reimagine the future.
Courses in the visual arts, animation, screen, communication, fashion, media, and performance are available at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
