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MA Fashion Communication: Fashion Image at Central Saint Martins

The MA Fashion Communication: Fashion Image course at Central Saint Martins challenges students to explore new and emerging methods of representing fashion digitally.


School: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL)
Course: MA Fashion Communication: Fashion Image
Location: London, UK
Course dates: starts January 2025, with a duration of one year full-time (45 weeks)
Application deadline: 25 October 2024

MA Fashion Communication offers three pathways. Fashion Journalism focuses on writing, editing and digital media, while Fashion Critical Studies offers an academic approach to the study of fashion. Fashion Image is for innovative photographers, stylists, illustrators, filmmakers, set designers and art directors.

This pathway examines new digital platforms, such as interactive magazine design and the ever-changing landscape of mobile technology. You will explore fundamental issues such as authorship and how the industry uses social media channels.

MA Fashion Communication explores the discipline through new, cutting-edge digital platforms and media as well as more traditional modes of communication.

The course helps you to develop the professional skills to join the next generation of fashion theorists, analysts, writers, journalists, image-makers and visual communicators.

It also helps you to anticipate and respond to fluid, fluctuating global communication channels.

While much of your time and teaching is concentrated on your pathway study, there are opportunities to work with your colleagues from other pathways and courses. This structure reflects the collaborative approach of the fashion industry.

Across all pathways, the curriculum focuses both on the realities of the modern industry and fashion theory, ensuring your work is informed by current knowledge and debates in your specialist area.

Applications to this course have now closed.

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