Students at work in the CSVPA fashion studio

CSVPA · Art & Design

Four conversations. One studio.

Fashion design, fashion communication, architecture, and graphic design sit next to each other in Cambridge. They are not the same student. The second menu is the four doors.

What they actually are

The name on the course is not the same as the work in the room.

Fashion Design

The garment

Fashion Design

Cloth, pattern, collection. For the student who thinks in garments — drawing, cutting, construction, a Graduate Fashion Week collection. Pathway leader Dennic Lo. Head of Fashion: Professor Holly Fulton.

Best of Menswear, Culture & Heritage, Next Trend Forecasting — GFW.

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Fashion Communication

The brand

Fashion Communication

Campaign, editorial, brand. For the student who loves fashion and is not sure they want to be a designer. Hearst Magazines UK sits in the year. Pathway leader Chloe Ward.

Twelve students pitched a Harper’s Bazaar licensing brief to Hearst.

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Architecture

The space

Architecture

An art-first spatial pathway. Conceptual thinking over equations — and still a route to RIBA Part 1. Pathway leader Dr Reenie Elliot, ARB, RIBA. Studios at Meier, Nouvel, Chipperfield.

Architecture & Interior sits beside 3D Design, not a maths A-level.

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Graphic Design

The image

Graphic Design

Image, type, sequence. Graphic design, illustration, visual communication. Pathway leader Gavin Jones — twenty years of commercial work, from Volvo to Waitrose.

MA graduates have gone on to Vivienne Westwood and Esquire.

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Olive, Foundation Diploma, accepted to the Ruskin School of Art

Student highlight · Fine Art

Olive. Foundation. The Ruskin, Oxford.

Fine Art & Photography on the Foundation Diploma. Moulding, casting, the dark room — a year of artistic freedom, then an offer from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. Eight Year 2 pathways sit under the same Extended Diploma roof: 3D, fashion communication, animation and film, fine art and photography, architecture and interior, games, fashion design, graphics and illustration.

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