This programme nurtures students' creative identities while equipping them with practical, strategic, and industry-relevant skills. Emphasising responsible design, systems thinking, and sustainability, the course challenges students to rethink industry practices through innovation, technology, and empathy. With a focus on real-world issues, students develop personalised, practice-led approaches while exploring diverse cultural, social, and business contexts. Collaborative learning, industry engagement, and hands-on experience in design and production prepare graduates to become confident, future-ready fashion designers and product developers.
Graduates from Tembusu Institute's fashion diplomas and advanced diplomas can directly enrol into Stage 2 of this programme.
Innovative Curriculum
Gain creative and technical skills and succeed in roles like design, product development and merchandising.
Hands-on Learning
Access top studios and tools to explore materials, techniques, and create innovative fashion collections.
Industry Collaborations
Benefit from our established links with industry leaders such as ASOS, Givenchy, and Topshop.
Stage 2
Critical Issues in Fashion Research
(20 credits)
Expand your critical understanding of fashion in a global context and examine emerging debates in fashion research. You’ll engage in collaborative research around current and emerging cultural issues and be guided through approaches to researching and writing about fashion across its social, historical, political and cultural contexts. During this unit, you’ll develop your own independent research path and interests.
Professional Project
(40 credits)
This unit raises your awareness and opportunities within the global fashion industry, and you’ll situate your creative practice within design and production contexts. To an industry-focused brief, you’ll design and develop a range of products that will demonstrate your market and brand awareness. You’ll continue to develop your skills, through designing for others, developing forward-thinking creative responses and outcomes to an industry-focused brief.
Industry Project
(40 credits)
This unit will ask you to question and challenge how you approach design and manufacturing. You’ll test and broaden your multi-disciplinary skillset and the ability to develop products to an industry brief, through understanding how to design to realise change within the fashion system. By evaluating existing production models, you’ll develop appropriate design solutions and actions that demonstrate an informed and critical understanding of sustainable production methods and supply chains.
Future Technologies
(20 credits)
This unit will expand your awareness of the wider ethical and sustainable issues facing the industry through various lectures, workshops, engagement with diverse practices, communities and future fashion thinking. You’ll engage with investigating current & emerging technologies to explore new opportunities. By adopting a systems design approach, you’ll develop a globalised view of your practice relative to different consumer needs, with consideration of the social and environmental impact of products.
Optional Diploma Year
Industry DIPS
This optional diploma can be taken between years 2 and 3. With support from your tutors, you’ll undertake an industry placement for a minimum of 100 days/20 weeks. As well as developing industry skills, you’ll gain an additional qualification upon successful completion.
Enterprise DIPS
This optional diploma can be taken between years 2 and 3. With support from your tutors, you’ll undertake an enterprise placement year where you will explore a business idea from proposal to minimal viable product (MVP). As well as developing enterprise skills, you’ll gain an additional qualification upon successful completion.
CCI Creative Computing
Between years 2 and 3, you can undertake the year-long Diploma in Creative Computing. This will develop your skills in creative computing alongside your degree. After successfully completing the diploma and your undergraduate degree, you’ll graduate with an enhanced degree: BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development (with Creative Computing).
CCI Apple Diploma
Between years 2 and 3, you can undertake the year-long Diploma in Apple Development. This will give you an opportunity to become an accredited apple developer alongside your degree. After successfully completing the diploma and your undergraduate degree, you’ll graduate with an enhanced degree: BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development (with Apple Development).
Stage 3
Contextualising Practice
(20 credits)
Through a research-led, extended essay, you’ll build on your historical and theoretical understanding of fashion, addressing critical debates and concerns raised through your course. After identifying a topic relating to your field of practice, you’ll complete an independent research project, underpinned with cultural and critical theory.
Concept Development
(40 credits)
Your own creative vision will provide a platform from which you’ll be able to produce an innovative and enterprising viable industry proposition, informed by appropriate research and development. Utilising the knowledge and experience gained, you’ll formulate a strategy that critically informs your design, addressing its impact on society, the environment, and business practices. The concept development strategy will underpin the rest of your final year of study.
Product Realisation
(60 credits)
This unit utilises concept development outcomes to cultivate deeper design and development opportunities. The unit will enable you to further research into and develop your personal creative identity in the form of an extended project. It will highlight the diverse range of innovative practices and approaches used within your design and product development process. You’ll present your work using media appropriate to your creative practice and preparing you for your future career in the industry.
Academic Entry Requirements (Direct entry to Year 2)
Total Payable Fee
£59,980.00 (Approx. SGD$104,240)
Fee Breakdown (2025/2026):
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