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Postgraduate

MA Fashion Artefact (Low Residency)

Yang Shen | MA Fashion Artefact | London College of Fashion | UAL
College
London College of Fashion
Start date
September 2023
Course length
15 months

MA Fashion Artefact (Low Residency) is specifically developed within the Craft program, existing within the School of Design & Technology.

This specialist course offers flexible learning in a supportive, blended environment, connecting you with a global community of practice. Immersive and interactive online experiences will combine with a four-week residency period at the London College of Fashion’s new and vibrant East London campus.

You will redefine what fashion artefact means within a multidisciplinary framework, developing hybrid craft practices to challenge tradition.

Applications suspended 2023/24

Recruitment has been suspended for 2023/24.

In-person course

You can study a version of this course in-person.

Applying for more than 1 course

You can apply for more than 1 postgraduate course at UAL but we recommend that you apply for no more than 3. Find out more in the Apply Now section.

Why choose this course at London College of Fashion

  • A global network of practice: you will become part of a worldwide network of designers – an invaluable resource for both your research project and your future as a professional designer and maker.
  • Flexible, dynamic interactive learning: a full-time course that gives you time for risk-taking and reflection upon your practice, while balancing other life and work commitments.
  • Situated learning: a place-based approach to design. You and your peers will come from diverse local, cultural and disciplinary backgrounds to develop a project within a global community of practice.
  • Learning in context: research projects will combine your skills, experience, and interests, focusing on issues relevant to a specific audience, context, or site. You will collaborate with artisans in your local communities of practice, share knowledge, and develop deep connections with an international cohort of fellow students.
  • Committing to decolonisation and decarbonisation of your education and creative practices: you will develop your personal practice from your country, region or province of origin. Research projects are built upon your cultural heritage and local craftsmanship, indigenous voices, and social cultural tenets, while accessing resources within the multicultural hub of London.
  • Integrating theory and practice: this course ensures you develop your skills through clear research questions and methodologies. With a research-oriented, environmentally, and socially engaged ethos, we focus on innovation and developing deeply reflective research practices.
  • Sustainability and Climate Emergency: this course helps you develop a locally embedded design strategy for fashion sustainability, cultivate systems thinking and practices that meaningfully acknowledge the interconnections and complexity of life on earth.

Course overview

The MA Fashion Artefact course exists within the Craft Programme, in the School of Design and Technology (SDT) at London College of Fashion. The Programme also includes MA Footwear BA (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear; BA (Hons) Cordwainers Fashion, Bags & Accessories and BA (Hons) Bespoke Tailoring, BA (Hons) Jewellery. The SDT also includes MA Fashion Futures, which closely aligns to the MA Fashion Artefact course’s making and theory elements and provides collaborative opportunities.  The course is a globally unique and well-established masters which has developed an international reputation as a pioneering incubator for the creative designers and practitioners of the future.

Climate, Social and Racial Justice

The course is committed to embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice. 

Course units

The Course is divided into three 15-week blocks and is full time. The first block is 60 credits and students who successfully complete this block are eligible for an Exit Award of a Postgraduate Certificate. The second block is a further 60 credits and students who successfully complete blocks 1 and 2 are eligible for an Exit Award award of Postgraduate Diploma. The third and final block is the Master’s Project, this is a 60-credit unit and students who successfully complete this block are eligible for the award of an Masters Award (MA). The final award classification is based upon the Master’s Project only. 

Block 1: 

Includes 2 weeks residential at the start of the block

Collaborative Challenge Unit (20 Credits) 
Mastering Studio Methodologies Unit (40 Credits) 

Block 2: 

Research Proposal Unit (20 Credits) 
Analytical Design and Manufacturing Methodologies Unit (40 credits) 

Block 3: 

Includes 2 weeks residential at the start of the block

Masters Project (60 Credits) 

Learning and teaching methods

The learning and teaching strategies focus on individual and small group tutorials and formative and summative assessment points.

Blended learning environments offer a natural and logic platform for incoming students who have chosen to embark on a personal approach within the four key areas of studio practice that are key to the course philosophy. These four areas are: (1) Regional Craftsmanship and Heritage, (2) Artefact as a political voice, (3) Advanced manufacture and technology (4) Prosthetic design. Students may choose to work digitally or physically or a combination of both.  All assessments are submitted online.

The course encourages collaboration allowing students to work with peers from other disciplines, or external partners and to learn critical professional skills to edit and peer review their work and the work of others, in line with the Creative Attributes Framework.

The following learning and teaching methods are employed to support the integrated achievement of the course outcomes:

  • Lectures; seminars and workshops in a blended format
  • Brainstorming sessions
  • Individual and group presentations
  • Online forum discussions and other forms of digital communications tools through Moodle
  • Peer and tutor led discussions
  • Interactive workshops
  • Industry and alumni speaker sessions
  • Tutorials
  • Demonstrations
  • Critiques
  • Peer review
  • Engagement with the Creative Attributes Framework (CAF)

MA Fashion Artefact (Low Residency)

Course trailer

Graduate Showcase

Explore work by our recent students on the UAL Showcase

Student and graduate work

  • Student work by Hong Ji Lee | MA Fashion Artefact | London College of Fashion | University of Arts London
  • Student work by Junnan Song Xu | MA Fashion Artefact | London College of Fashion | University of Arts London
  • Student work by Zhongyang Zhao | MA Fashion Artefact | London College of Fashion | University of Arts London

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LCF facilities

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    LCF library and archives

    Take a tour of LCF's world renowned fashion library, ideal for research and study.

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    Explore our social spaces, for collaborative study and breaks, across our six sites in London.

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    LCF's move

    LCF is moving to a new single campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2023. Find more information about the College’s relocation.

Staff

Lara Torres
Pathway Leader for MA Fashion Artefact (Low Residency)

Artist and researcher Lara Torres holds a Doctorate from the University of Arts London, at the London College of Fashion with the thesis ‘Towards a practice of unmaking: the essay film as critical discourse for fashion in the expanded field’. Her research sits at the intersection of fashion design, fine arts, and film practices and theory, exploring notions of an expanded field of fashion, critical fashion and fashion film practices in the Twenty-First Century. She is looking at fashion as a belief but also in an intrinsic relation to systems, that understand fashion as a theoretical and methodological framework for understanding the complex dynamic relationship between the body, dress, and culture. She describes her practice as being rooted in fashion but no longer subdued by its disciplinary boundaries. Torres has published articles in academic journals and books exploring practice-as-research and the notion of an expanded fashion practice. Her work has been exhibited internationally by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the City Museum of Rimini, the Kalmar Konstmuseum, the Museums Quartier in Vienna, the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, among others.

Dai Rees Dai Rees is an artist, designer, curator and academic from South Wales originally trained in ceramics and glass at Central St. Martins and the Royal College of Art. In 2004 the University of the Arts awarded him the title of Professor, for his contribution to the field of fashion. He launched his eponymous fashion label in the Nineties, showing collections at London Fashion Week and selling to some of the most famous boutiques in the world. His work is held in major public and private collections including at the V&A in London and the MET in New York. He is currently the Program Director for CRAFT in the School of Design and Technology. He was the Course Director for the Master of Arts in Fashion Artefact between 2008 and 2022.

Naomi Filmer Naomi Filmer is course leader for MA Fashion Artefact (in person) and a contemporary jewellery designer / artist. She makes objects about the body rather than to adorn, treating the body itself as a site for continuing aesthetic inquiry. Her early works gained attention on catwalk created for designers Hussein Chalayan, Alexander McQueen and Anne Valerie Hash and others. Subsequent works have featured in design exhibitions and recognised for her sculptural forms and varied use of materials. Naomi continues to explore recurrent themes of fragmentation and isolation of the body through objects that explore the tension between art and design, using craft and combined media to push the boundaries between art and accessories. Her work is collected and exhibited internationally in the Crafts Council London, Victoria and Albert Museum London, Boijmans von Beuningen Rotterdam, MUDAC Lausanne, MoMu Antwerp, Trienale Design Museum Milan and elsewhere.

Associate Lecturers

Kate Langrish Smith Kate Langrish Smith is a British artist whose practice sits at the intersection of art and design, exploring the fusion, balance, and harmony of textured, poised, haptic and chromatic compositions, images, and sculptural assemblages; what she likes to refer to as ‘tactile tensions.’ After completing a BA in Art and Visual Culture in 2006, she developed and internationally exhibiting her headwear label collections. In 2012 she received a scholarship to study a Master in Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion. In 2014 she furthered her material interests in ceramics with a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Ceramics and Polymers at the Haute École d'Art et Design in Geneva, Switzerland, at the Centre for Experimentation and Realisation in Contemporary Ceramics. Clay continues to be a dominant material in her making practice. Smith is currently based in Sheffield at Yorkshire Artspace Studios, she is an Associate Lecturer on the MA Design course at Sheffield Hallam University, and a part-time PhD candidate in Creative Practice at Leeds School of Art, Leeds Beckett University. As a sculptor she is captivated by the transformative properties of the materials she works with, the liquid to solid states and the magic of chemical transformation through heat, time, atmosphere and the force, energy, and presence of the maker.

Liz Ciokajlo Liz Ciokajlo is a designer, researcher, and educator with over 20 years' experience working across the product, furniture, and fashion accessories sectors. With a BSC in Industrial Design from the University of Cincinatti and having graduated from London College of Fashion with a Distinction in Masters of Fashion Footwear in 2013. Her work is at the conceptual, imaginative end to bring fresh ideas to real world issues. Ciokajlo focuses on bio-fabricated and natural materials, 3DPrint technologies, the body and how these will alter footwear constructions. She works as a freelance design consultant (Clarks), on research teams (Kings College London), collaboratively with artists like Rhian Solomon, designers such as Manolis Papastavrou and science-based specialists on funded, creative research/ innovation projects supported by Innovate Uk and the Arts Council England. She has worked for international commissions for MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York for the exhibition ‘Items: Is Fashion Modern?’ and Design Museum London project ‘Caskia: Growing a Mars Boot,’ a collaborative project with Maurizio Montalti, shortlisted for Beazley Design of the Year.

Jo Cope Jo Cope is an artist with a career spanning two decades. Her educational background includes a Masters in Fashion Artefact from the London College of Fashion in 2016. She is a guest speaker and part-time lecturer at universities across the country and is an Associate Artist at Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. Her work explores the idea that shoes and feet carry deeper meanings and wisdom. With a background in fashion, performance and leathercraft, Jo has reimagined an alternative life for shoes. Jo is dyslexic and is the Neurodiversity ambassador for Design Nation UK. She has exhibited at many prestigious exhibitions and venues internationally including; The History of Shoes at The Decorative Arts Museum Paris 2019 and Live Performances at the Venice Design Biennial 2021. Jo explores fashion’s wider role in art and society, including that of a tool for social activism. In 2021, she worked with the Graduate Fashion Foundation and Shelter Charity to set up the first ‘Fashion for Social Change’ Award. Her collaborations with the Shelter charity include curating the project ‘Shoes Have Names’, a co-design project where 10 shoe designers worked with 10 previously homeless individuals to tell their stories of positive steps forward.

International Special Lecturer: Ana Racjevic Ana Rajcevic is a Serbian artist based in Berlin. She studied a Diploma in Interior Architecture at the University of the Arts Belgrade in 2010, followed by a Masters in Fashion Artefact at the London College of Fashion in 2012, and she is currently completing her PhD in Artistic Research at University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is an artist working at the intersection of sculpture, fine arts, and performance, focusing on diverse ways of altering the body through complex pieces of adornment. With a multi-disciplinary inquiry that combines experimental art and design with research in biomedicine, history, materials science, and psychology, she creates unique ‘wearable sculptures’ using most notably natural and synthetic polymers: wax, resin, silicon, and rubber, as well as other novel materials and techniques. Exhibiting internationally in such museums and galleries as the Louvre, Smithsonian Design Museum, Boijmans Museum and the Venice Biennale, her work has been published in The Independent, The Guardian, Wired, CNN, Vogue and Dazed & Confused, among others. Rajcevic continually works and collaborates within the performing arts field, and her performance collaboration were shown in international venues.

International Special Lecturer: Daniel Ramos Obrégon Daniel Ramos Obregón is a Colombian designer, artist, drag performer and professor. Daniel graduated from the BA Design at Universidad de los Andes in 2011, where he’s also worked for over 8 years as a Professor and the MA Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion in 2014. With a strong interest in the body and craft, his work is focused on object design and wearable art, working mostly with jewellery, ceramics and leather. He was a finalist in the accessory category at International Talent Support (2014) and the concept category “Premio Lápiz de Acero” (2015). Daniel’s work focuses on the notions of the ‘self’ and explores the relationship between fashion, sculpture and performance arts. For his project, “Outrospection; The Body and Mind“, which was also the final project for the MA Fashion Artefact he explored the concept of “Outrospection”, initially introduced by philosopher Roman Kznaric, relating it to out-of-body experiences, seeking to represent, metaphorically, the mind being projected out of the body as a way of self-expression and representation. His work has been displayed and published at a wide international level.

International Special Lecturer: Leyi Chen Leyi Chen is a designer and maker and with a Jewellery design background, with a Masters in Fashion Artefact, and she is currently working at the Chaoyang Kaiwen Academy, in Beijing, China. Her work explores unusual materials for Jewellery-making such as rice, through research and development, she makes a connection between food, perception and memory. The exploration of identity through objects is at the core of her practice.

International Special Lecturer: Junnan Songxu Junnan Songxu aka Vane, is a designer/maker with a jewellery design background with an MA in Fashion Artefact and a freelance illustrator. Equipped with crafting skills, he is proficient in making jewellery and objects across various materials, he also has experience in mould-making and working with leather, his works have been exhibited across Europe and China. His work tackles aspects of gender identity, masculinity stereotypes and homophobia.

Fees and funding

Home fee

£12,700

This fee is correct for 2024/25 entry and is subject to change for 2025/26 entry.

Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Home fees are currently charged to UK nationals and UK residents who meet the rules. However, the rules are complex. Find out more about our tuition fees and determining your fee status.

International fee

£25,060

This fee is correct for 2024/25 entry and is subject to change for 2025/26 entry.

Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Home fees are currently charged to UK nationals and UK residents who meet the rules. However, the rules are complex. Find out more about our tuition fees and determining your fee status.

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Entry requirements

Entry to this course is highly competitive: applicants are expected to achieve, or already have, the course entry requirements detailed below.

  • An Honours degree at 2.1 or above in a related discipline. Applicants with a degree in another subject may be considered, depending on the strength of the application;

OR

  • Relevant and quantitative experience.

All classes are conducted in English. The level required by the University for this course is IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each skill. 

Selection criteria

The course seeks to recruit students who can demonstrate: 

  • A strong commitment and motivation towards a career in an aspect of the fashion and creative industries 
  • An awareness, and relevant experience of, fashion or the creative industries; 
  • High-level knowledge and skills commensurate with planned entry into the defined course including the ability to design and manufacture fashion artefacts. 

The course seeks to recruit students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and welcomes applications from mature students. 

Apply now

This section includes all the information you need on how to apply, how your application is considered and what happens next.

Applications suspended 2023/24

Recruitment has been suspended for 2023/24.

In-person course

You can study a version of this course in-person.

Deferring your place

This course accepts requests from offer holders to defer their place for one academic year. Deferral requests are granted on a first-come, first-served basis until all deferral places are filled, or a deadline has been reached, whichever is sooner. Read our Admissions Policy for details, including how to request a deferral and by when.

External Student Transfer Policy

If you are currently studying at another institution and if you have successfully completed 60 credits in the equivalent units/modules on your current PG course and wish to continue your studies at London College of Fashion, you can apply to transfer. The Admissions Tutor will consider applications on a case by case basis, subject to places being available. You must apply directly to the course via the course webpage as early as possible.

Please check our Student Transfer Policy for more important information and be ready to provide us with your current course handbook and transcripts.

Please be ready to provide an official document (translated into English if necessary) from your current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you have completed.

Start your application now

Extra information required for applications to this course


When you are submitting your application form, you will also need to provide the following pieces of documentation in support of your application:

Curriculum Vitae

You will be required to submit a Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) in support of your application. This should include your full education and employment history.

Personal statement

The personal statement is your opportunity to tell us about yourself and your suitability for the course that you intend to study.

Some key points to consider:

  • Make sure that personal statement is your own work and is about you.
  • Explain why you want to study the course you are applying to.
  • Try to link your skills and experience required to the course.
  • Demonstrate your interest and enthusiasm for the course and link these with your personality.
  • Make sure it is organised and literate (grammar, spelling, punctuation check).

Study proposal

Your study proposal should be no more than 900 words (excluding research sources, bibliography and appendices).
It should:

  • State briefly the background for the proposal.
  • Determine the precise area of study.
  • Set out clearly and concisely your aims and objectives for the period of study within the course structure.
  • Refer to critical ideas that may underpin your practice.
  • State the form of realisation/ outcome of the study proposal.

Your study proposal should have the following structure:

Introduction
Introduce your work. Briefly outline recent developments prior to application. Describe the anticipated programme of study in detail, demonstrating your knowledge of the historical and contemporary context of your area of study. Focus on specific areas or issues that underpin and frame the proposal.

Programme of study
Outline the sequence of practical, theoretical and research that you intend to follow. This will be vital to your programme of study in the development stage in which the Study Proposal will progress and take shape.
For example, describe in detail the methodologies that you follow and their significance for the design process. (Advice and support will be offered by tutors on the course). Any supporting material should appear in the Appendices at the end of the proposal.

Evaluation
Evaluate your work to date. Draw any conclusions you are able to make.

Research sources
Give details of libraries, exhibitions, museums, galleries and special archives that you have visited as part of your research towards the proposal.

Bibliography
Keep a full record of all original and documentary material consulted. List appropriate material using the Harvard Referencing System.

Appendices
Insert any additional material that you consider relevant but not part of the core of the study proposal. This could include links to notes, drawings and additional research material.

Portfolio

You will be required to submit a digital portfolio with a maximum of 30 images that you consider would help support your application. Submit your portfolio via the university’s digital portfolio tool, PebblePad. More details will be sent to you after you have submitted your application. Label and present any visual work with care, including dates and captions.

Video task


We’d like you to submit a 2-3 minute video to help us learn more about you.

Please speak clearly in English and face the camera. Read our guidance for how to submit your video task and which file types we accept.

Your video task should cover the following topics:

We would like you to identify one project from your portfolio which challenged you and your understanding of MA Fashion Artefact. Explain how this experience has inspired you to apply to MA Fashion Artefact at LCF.

What happens next

All application forms, personal statements and relevant documents are read and considered by the course team against the selection criteria listed in the Entry requirements and Selection Criteria sections.

Depending on the quality of your application, you may be asked to submit a number of images of your work. For this course your portfolio could include: drawings; photographs of realised designs; speculative design; sketch work; process; and photographs. Label and present any visual work with care, including dates and captions.

If the course team wish to consider your application further, you will be invited to attend an interview. If you are selected for interview, these will take place online using Teams from Microsoft – please ensure that you download this software prior to the interview date; this is available as a free download from the Microsoft website. We will send you further details at a later point about how we will connect with you for your interview.

If you are selected for interview you will be asked to bring a portfolio of previous work, including developmental work where possible, and three artefact products you have made to evidence your skills.

If you are successful at the interview stage you will be offered a place. Please note that applicants are not guaranteed an interview.

Please note that if you are unable to attend, the College may not be able to re-schedule.

How we notify you of the outcome of your application

The result of your application will be communicated to you through your UAL Portal. If your application has been successful, you will receive a full offer pack including details of accommodation, fees, and other important information.

Applications for this course can only be accepted for this year of entry. Applications for deferred entry cannot be accepted.

Application deadline

19 December 2022 and 3 April 2023

Our equal consideration deadlines have now passed. This course will remain open to applications for 2023 entry until places have been filled. Please be aware that courses can close without notice.

We recommend you submit your application as early as possible to allow the Admissions team to resolve any initial queries about your application as quickly as possible.

When you'll hear from us

If this course requires a digital portfolio as part of the application process, you will be invited to submit this through UAL’s online submission tool, PebblePad. We will request this separately after initial processing of your application is complete. Once we request your portfolio, you will have 7 days to submit it.

Once you’ve sent in your application, this will be sent through to our course teams for review. Find out more about what happens after you apply.

This section includes all the information you need on how to apply, how your application is considered and what happens next.

Applications suspended 2023/24

Recruitment has been suspended for 2023/24.

In-person course

You can study a version of this course in-person.

There are 2 ways international students can apply to a postgraduate course:

Read our immigration and visa information to find out if you need a visa to study at UAL.

You can only apply to the same course once per year. Any duplicate applications will be withdrawn.  Read the UAL international application advice for further information on how to apply.

Deferring your place

This course accepts requests from offer holders to defer their place for one academic year. Deferral requests are granted on a first-come, first-served basis until all deferral places are filled, or a deadline has been reached, whichever is sooner. Read our Admissions Policy for details, including how to request a deferral and by when.

External Student Transfer Policy

If you are currently studying at another institution and if you have successfully completed 60 credits in the equivalent units/modules on your current PG course and wish to continue your studies at London College of Fashion, you can apply to transfer. The Admissions Tutor will consider applications on a case by case basis, subject to places being available. You must apply directly to the course via the course webpage as early as possible.

Please check our Student Transfer Policy for more important information and be ready to provide us with your current course handbook and transcripts.

Please be ready to provide an official document (translated into English if necessary) from your current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you have completed.

Start your application now

Extra information required for applications to this course


When you are submitting your application form, you will also need to provide the following pieces of documentation in support of your application:

Curriculum Vitae

You will be required to submit a Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) in support of your application. This should include your full education and employment history.

Personal statement

The personal statement is your opportunity to tell us about yourself and your suitability for the course that you intend to study.

Some key points to consider:

  • Make sure that personal statement is your own work and is about you.
  • Explain why you want to study the course you are applying to.
  • Try to link your skills and experience required to the course.
  • Demonstrate your interest and enthusiasm for the course and link these with your personality.
  • Make sure it is organised and literate (grammar, spelling, punctuation check).

Study proposal

Your study proposal should be no more than 900 words (excluding research sources, bibliography and appendices).
It should:

  • State briefly the background for the proposal.
  • Determine the precise area of study.
  • Set out clearly and concisely your aims and objectives for the period of study within the course structure.
  • Refer to critical ideas that may underpin your practice.
  • State the form of realisation/ outcome of the study proposal.

Your study proposal should have the following structure:

Introduction
Introduce your work. Briefly outline recent developments prior to application. Describe the anticipated programme of study in detail, demonstrating your knowledge of the historical and contemporary context of your area of study. Focus on specific areas or issues that underpin and frame the proposal.

Programme of study
Outline the sequence of practical, theoretical and research that you intend to follow. This will be vital to your programme of study in the development stage in which the Study Proposal will progress and take shape.
For example, describe in detail the methodologies that you follow and their significance for the design process. (Advice and support will be offered by tutors on the course). Any supporting material should appear in the Appendices at the end of the proposal.

Evaluation
Evaluate your work to date. Draw any conclusions you are able to make.

Research sources
Give details of libraries, exhibitions, museums, galleries and special archives that you have visited as part of your research towards the proposal.

Bibliography
Keep a full record of all original and documentary material consulted. List appropriate material using the Harvard Referencing System.

Appendices
Insert any additional material that you consider relevant but not part of the core of the study proposal. This could include links to notes, drawings and additional research material.

Portfolio

You will be required to submit a digital portfolio with a maximum of 30 images that you consider would help support your application. Submit your portfolio via the university’s digital portfolio tool, PebblePad. More details will be sent to you after you have submitted your application. Label and present any visual work with care, including dates and captions.

Video task


We’d like you to submit a 2-3 minute video to help us learn more about you.

Please speak clearly in English and face the camera. Read our guidance for how to submit your video task and which file types we accept.

Your video task should cover the following topics:

We would like you to identify one project from your portfolio which challenged you and your understanding of MA Fashion Artefact. Explain how this experience has inspired you to apply to MA Fashion Artefact at LCF.

What happens next

Immigration History Check

After you have applied, you will need to complete an Immigration History Check to identify whether you are eligible to study at UAL. Do be aware, if you do not complete the Immigration History Check we will not be able to proceed with your application.

Initial application check

All application forms, personal statements and relevant documents are read and considered by the course team against the selection criteria listed in the Entry requirements and Selection Criteria sections.

Depending on the quality of your application, you may be asked to submit a number of images of your work. For this course your portfolio could include: drawings; photographs of realised designs; speculative design; sketch work; process; and photographs. Label and present any visual work with care, including dates and captions.

If the course team wish to consider your application further, you will be invited to attend an interview. If you are selected for interview, these will take place online using Teams from Microsoft – please ensure that you download this software prior to the interview date; this is available as a free download from the Microsoft website. We will send you further details at a later point about how we will connect with you for your interview.

. If you are selected for interview you will be asked to bring a portfolio of previous work, including developmental work where possible, and three artefact products you have made to evidence your skills.

If you are successful at the interview stage you will be offered a place. Please note that applicants are not guaranteed an interview.

Please note that if you are unable to attend, the College may not be able to re-schedule.

How we notify you of the outcome of your application

The result of your application will be communicated to you through your UAL Portal. If your application has been successful, you will receive a full offer pack including details of accommodation, fees, and other important information.

Applications for this course can only be accepted for this year of entry. Applications for deferred entry cannot be accepted.

Application deadline

19 December 2022 and 3 April 2023

Our equal consideration deadlines have now passed. This course will remain open to applications for 2023 entry until places have been filled. Please be aware that courses can close without notice.

We recommend you submit your application as early as possible to allow the Admissions team to resolve any initial queries about your application as quickly as possible.

When you'll hear from us

This course receives a high volume of applications. We need to make sure that we give all applications equal consideration, so the course team will review them in two rounds. This means that offers won’t be sent to successful applicants until after the relevant application deadline date. Outcomes for Round 1 will be released by 31 March 2022 and outcomes for Round 2 will be released by 30 June 2022.

Remember to check the outcome of your application in the UAL Portal. If you apply in Round 1 and don’t hear back from us, we will consider your application within Round 2.

Find out more about what happens after you apply.

After you apply

After you’ve submitted your application, you’ll receive a confirmation email providing you with your login details for the UAL Portal. We’ll use this Portal to contact you to request any additional information, including inviting you to upload documents or book an interview, so please check it regularly.

Once we’ve reviewed and assessed your application, we’ll contact you via the UAL Portal to let you know whether your application has been successful.

Careers

All our postgraduate courses offer career development, so that you become a creative thinker, making effective contributions to your relevant sector of the fashion industry.

LCF offers students the opportunity to develop Personal and Professional Development (PPD) skills while studying through:

  • Access to to speaker programmes and events featuring alumni and industry.
  • Access to careers activities, such as CV clinics and one-to-one advice sessions.
  • Access to a graduate careers service
  • Access to a live jobsboard for all years.
  • Advice on setting up your own brand or company.

Career paths

Graduates from MA Fashion Artefact will be in a position to gain employment as innovators within the field of fashion design or object based fashion artefacts / accessories and may identify a fashion house, large corporate company or alternatively choose to build their own identity through the launch of their own product/design label. Graduates of MA Fashion Artefact have previously gone on to set up their own labels and work in a number of roles within the industry at companies including Burberry Prorsum and Alexander McQueen. Further employment opportunities include trend prediction, stylist, illustrator and freelance designer.

Masters graduates have an acknowledged advantage in the employment market, obtaining work in a wide range of vocational and academic fields related to fashion. Graduates from the MA Fashion Artefact will be in a position to gain employment as innovators within the fields of fashion design and technology, fashion communications, or management and marketing for the fashion industries. The MA also provides an excellent preparation for higher level research degrees (MPhil or PhD), with an increasing number of graduates undertaking research in fashion related subjects, in both practice and theory.

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