Course General Description

Students graduating from our course have won a whole host of accolades, from the Hilary Alexander Trailblazer award, the Womenswear and Innovation awards from Graduate Fashion Week, and British Fashion Council Education Sponsorship. They have gone on to work for some of the biggest fashion labels in today’s industry, including ASOS, Abercrombie & Fitch, Burberry, Erdem, Givenchy, Hilfiger, Charles Jeffrey, Ralph Lauren, Dr Martens, Margiela, Pringle, PUMA, Temperley London, and Louis Vuitton. With industry-level facilities, you will work with professional teaching staff and technicians on pattern cutting, garment manufacture, drape, tailoring and fabric manipulation. We teach you visual communication skills such as fashion design drawing, creative illustration and CAD, to ensure you graduate with a dynamic portfolio and your own unique design identity.

School General Description

The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.