Xinran Liao, MDes Fashion & Textiles, 2024.

Fashion Design

Award
MDes Fashion + Textiles
Location
Glasgow
School
School of Design
Applications
Direct to the School

Programme overview

The Master of Design in Fashion Design programme is designed to meet the ambitions of motivated fashion graduates who wish to extend, develop and refine their design practice. The programme develops resourceful and independently minded designers who challenge and interrogate the field of fashion in new and innovative ways, taking inventive, rule-breaking approaches to surface and silhouette.The programme encourages students to consider the human form as a limitless opportunity for creative expression and to develop an individual visual language accordingly. Those who focus on a surface approach are guided to create rectilinear textile forms and then work intuitively and sculpturally on the body, exploring the inherent qualities of the fabrics. Students concentrating on silhouette are encouraged to take experimental and imaginative approaches to three-dimensional form, cut, shape and construction methods.Throughout the programme, students embrace a playful, unrestrained dress-up box approach to fashion subverting and disrupting craft and clothing conventions. The programme supports students in moving effortlessly and expertly between 2D and 3D, making spontaneous and reasoned responses, considering the outermost and innermost details, and designing responsibly for optimum social, environmental and cultural impact. All GSA degree programmes are validated by the University of Glasgow.

Yimei Lu, MDes Fashion & Textiles 2023.

Application Guidelines + Digital Portfolio

Shitao Tang, MDes Fashion & Textiles, 2023.

This guide contains important information including entry requirements, English language requirements, the application process and sample portfolios.

How to apply

More on how to apply for all of our postgraduate programmes.

Ramona Lindsay, Painting and Printmaking, 2023.

Staff

Programme Leader

Professor J Stephen-Cran

Jinger Shen, MDes Fashion & Textiles, 2024.

Postgraduate Showcase

Join us for Postgraduate Degree Show - immerse yourself in our digital showcase of graduating students' work and see final year projects from students of this programme.

Chuan Du, MLitt Fine Art Practice, 2023.

Graduate destinations

The digital portfolio is a very important part of your application to study at The Glasgow School of Art. It is a collection of images of your design work laid out clearly to demonstrate your ideas, skills, interests and suitability for the programme you are applying to. Uploading a digital portfolio is mandatory for all postgraduate taught degrees in the School of Design except MSc Product Design Engineering. Applicants to this programme have the option to upload if you have relevant project work from previous experience. Your digital portfolio should show recently completed and/or work-in-progress including research, development work, evidence of exploration, as well as resolved pieces. Admissions staff assess your application form, digital portfolio, and personal sta

Indicative Programme Costs

Additional information to support you in planning your learning. Individual departments levy material fees as indicated on this page. You should budget for each year of your programme of study and should allow for costs over and above your fees and maintenance.

Jinger Shen, MDes Fashion & Textiles 2024

Current Programme Specification

Resource Lists

Visit the library for the specialist reading lists for this programme. Key resources are expected to be read/viewed by all students enrolled on this course during study. You can also find wider and suggested reading on the subject, with many of the contents available to read online once students have enrolled on the programme.

Weronika Siuda, Textile Design, 2018.

International Students + VISAs

As one of the leading art schools in the UK, The Glasgow School of Art welcomes international students to all of its programmes. The School offers an environment in which difference is encouraged and diversity of background and approach is valued.

Ka Ki Wong, MDes Photography, 2017.

Exchange & Study Abroad

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This programme participates in the Associate Student Scheme

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Kate Timney, MLitt Art Writing School of Fine Art, 2023.