Program Overview

Menswear with Professional Experience MFA

Overview

This two-year pathway is designed for prospective students who are interested in developing their menswear design skills and applying them in an industry setting. It is designed for individuals who are particularly interested in establishing their own menswear brand but who would like to gain industry experience while doing so. The course includes a year of project-based study and a placement year within the industry.

Course Structure

The course is divided into two years. The first year consists of taught modules, while the second year is a placement year in the industry.

Core Modules

• Tailoring and Archive: This module progressively develops your confidence and encourages imaginative, practical and critical knowledge to the highest level. The module explores advanced Tailoring skills in order to establish a personal process for design and construction techniques.
• Diagnostics and Identity: This module is designed to explore your personal aesthetic in relation to your position in an industry context. You will explore your unique vision for menswear and visually represent your vision while applying critical evaluation of current industry factors to produce a capsule collection that responds to the socio-economic factors of a changing fashion industry in two parts.
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management: This module investigates the key stakeholders in the fashion and clothing supply chain whilst examining different supply chains, ranging from linear to circular models.
• Menswear Final Project: Collection and Portfolio: Collection and Portfolio should be viewed as a single unit that progressively develops your confidence and encourages imaginative, practical and critical knowledge to the highest level.
• Fashion Professional Industry Practice MFA: This project encourages and enhances employability skills with industry experience.

Option Modules

• Archive Research for Design: This module is designed for you to undertake research within the Westminster Menswear Archive, focusing on one garment or object to critically research its materiality in relation to its cultural context and meaning.
• Specialist Techniques: This module is designed to focus on the creation of the appropriate specialist techniques, working processes and context that establishes the student as an influential and informed design professional.
• Fashion Entrepreneurship: This module combines practical knowledge of business development and planning with theory and finance models, where relevant, to the fashion industry.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of an upper second class honours degree (2:1) or a lower second class honours degree (2:2) and substantial relevant work experience.
• Applicants are required to submit a portfolio, if this does not contain sufficient menswear content, applicants will then be required to create a virtual portfolio of three design projects that best evidence individual inspiration, and how this is developed through the process of designing.
• Applicants will also need to identify in writing a specific area of personal interest that they believe will create a positive contribution to the menswear industry and which they envisage studying in depth whilst on the course.
• Selection for interview is based on both application and portfolio.

Fees and Funding

• UK tuition fee: £11,700 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £22,500 (Price per academic year)

Facilities

Our fashion facilities at Westminster are acknowledged as being outstanding, with each cohort having their own dedicated studio to work in, equipped with individual student design spaces with industrial sewing machines, pattern cutting tables and mannequins.

Teaching and Assessment

Teaching methods across all our postgraduate courses focus on active student learning through lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application.

Assessment types include:

• Practical: examples include presentations, podcasts, blogs
• Coursework: examples include essays, in-class tests, portfolios, dissertation

Supporting You

Our Student Hub is where you’ll find out about the services and support we offer, helping you get the best out of your time with us.

• Study support – workshops, 1-2-1 support and online resources to help improve your academic and research skills
• Personal tutors – support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
• Student advice team – provide specialist advice on a range of issues including funding, benefits and visas
• Extra-curricular activities – volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, student events and more