Course General Description

The BA study programme of costume design is to prepare costume designers of high professional level, fashion specialists, able to creatively use professional knowledge and practical skills gained during studies, cutting-edge achievements of science and technology. A more detailed list of the aims of the BA study programme is as follows: - in-depth purposeful focus on contemporary fashion; - acquaintance with structure of new materials and its analysis; - encouragement of professional activity studies; - strengthening contacts with Lithuanian general public and international society as well as fashion industry; - fostering skills of entrepreneurship, useful in graduates' smoother adaptation to market changes. These aims are closely related to the fundamental purpose of the programme. Costume (fashion) design programme is carried out according to complexity of tasks, its constituent subjects and other subjects studied are synchronised, with regard to the aims of the programme.

School General Description

Vilnius Academy of Arts is the largest and oldest art university in the Baltic States, established in 1793 as an Architecture department at the Chief school of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Vilnius. At the end of the 19th century it was closed together with Vilnius University by the tsarist government, and then reopened in 1919. After the World War II Academy was merged with Kaunas Art Institute and since then was called The State Art Institute of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. In 1990 the Academy regained its name of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1990, almost 100 alumni of the Academy were awarded National Art Awards. Today Academy has over 1,800 students in four cities – Vilnius, Kaunas and Telšiai. Each faculty has its own unique study programmes, which offer Lithuanian students a possibility to find a specific art specialisation in different cities. Vilnius faculty has a wide collection of most popular art study programmes varying from Painting to Culture Management and Culture Politics. Kaunas faculty offers Glass Art study programme that is unique throughout the Baltic region.