Year 1
Fashion fundamentals
Research and drawing through to pattern cutting and construction. Small-scale projects. A personal design identity.

CSVPA · Fashion design
For students who think in garments. Design-only fashion at CSVPA, with 2D/fashion workshops and Graduate Fashion Week in view. Head of Fashion: Professor Holly Fulton. Pathway leader: Dennic Lo.
Year 1
Research and drawing through to pattern cutting and construction. Small-scale projects. A personal design identity.
Year 2
Womenswear, menswear or another path. Live briefs with houses such as Dries Van Noten and Burberry.
Year 3
A self-directed professional collection. International stage at Graduate Fashion Week. Recruiters including LVMH.
Workshops include sewing machines, dress forms, cutting tables, embroidery, overlockers and specialist fabric equipment. Materials and unlimited printing included. Design makes the garment. Communication makes the brand — they are not the same student.
Student highlight


The cover of the 2027–28 prospectus is a GFW menswear collection.
Award at Graduate Fashion Week 2026 — Safina Shakirova’s collection on the national rail.
A 2025 winning collection, photographed under the GFW lights.
Dennic Lo — RCA, UAL, Betty Jackson, ASOS, a GFW selection judge — runs the Foundation pathway. Professor Holly Fulton runs the department. CSVPA is 19th in the world for fashion (CEOWORLD 2026).
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