MA Creative: Responsible Fashion

The fashion industry is under scrutiny as never before, as the environmental and social impacts of its operations have become clear. New kinds of fashion practitioners are needed, who are able to think critically, creatively and collaboratively, with the holistic understanding, vision and skills that will enable the fashion industry to transition to a responsible and regenerative future. This innovative, crossdisciplinary Masters programme provides an essential space for students with fashion, design, textiles, business or from other relevant backgrounds to gain and apply the important knowledge, critical thinking and problem-solving capacities required to innovate new responsible fashion systems that radically reimagine luxury for the Anthropocene. Through a series of collaborative and individual projects, students will be provided with a strong theoretical framework that includes ecological design principles, systems thinking, alternative economics, regenerative systems, alternative sourcing, indigenous knowledge systems, the local, the politics of luxury, valued-led communication and crafting a compelling narrative, that they will respond to in a variety of ways that reflect their disciplines and goals.