Internship at Yulia Kondranina

During Summer I did an internship with a designer called Yulia Kondranina. It was a really worthwile experience and because it's a small company there were only a few people working for the designer which gave me the opportunity to do a lot more than if I were to intern with a larger, maybe more well known brand. My responsibilities included:-

• pattern cutting
• sewing clothes
• adding fastenings 
• fabric cutting
• buying fabric
• giving my opinion on designs
•  developing samples

Central Saint Martins Course Stucture

This pathway is for students who want to pursue careers as innovative designers. It sets out to deliver a clear understanding and experience of generating, developing and realising a variety of creative womenswear ideas to a professional standard.

You’ll be encouraged to develop your personal design vision within the context of womenswear design and in existing and expanding national and international fashion markets that incorporate both classic and innovative design concepts. Throughout the course the focus is on achieving the professionalism, innovation and creativity to develop and realise your design ideas. Essential skills you’ll learn include research methods, flat pattern cutting, modelling on the stand, garment construction, tailoring processes and finishing, technical specification, illustration and presentation.

You’ll grow your understanding of the diversity of the womenswear industry through a varied curriculum, targeted projects and the guidance of established and visiting lecturers who are specialists in this sector.

Cultural studies

The cultural studies programme is designed to enhance your communication, research, critical and writing skills. The discipline involves the study of cultural and creative processes, but goes beyond history and theory of art and design to encompass various aspects of cultural knowledge. In stage one and two you attend lectures and seminars on units relating to the city and creative culture, you explore key cultural concepts and choose from a range of elective choices such as art and fashion, postcolonialism, visual cultures, the body and sexuality. In the final stage of your degree you undertake dissertation research under the supervision of an assigned tutor who supports your research on a subject of your choice. It may be weighted at 20 or 40 credits. The dissertation is a written project where you explore an aspect of visual, textual material or spatial culture. There are many areas to explore in the cultural studies programme such as art, design, technology, concepts of taste, material culture, multiculturalism, identity politics, gender, consumerism, ethics, sustainability and media studies.

Personal and Professional Development, (PPD) helps to prepare you for employment and career development by providing you with skills to enable you to take responsibility for your own learning. The core study of all the fashion pathways also helps develop many of these transferable skills, which play their part in equipping you for a professional career and the generic activities of creative practice.

PPD is integral to BA Fashion and is embedded in many aspects of both the studio and cultural studies programmes as a planned part of their structure and learning content. PPD activities take place in all Stages of the degree course and aim to improve your capacity to understand what and how you are learning and to help you to review, plan and take responsibility for your own learning. A considerable number of the skills learned in the academic context of BA Fashion have a wider value and use in other areas of life. These transferable skills are highly valued by employers

Paris School of Art Requirements

Each applicant is reviewed individually with regard to his or her own experience, achievement and potential for artistic growth. The Admissions Committee’s decision on applications is based upon evaluation of the PCA Portfolio or Design Analysis Essay, the Personal Statement, school transcripts and test scores, and a phone or in-person interview. PCA seeks creative, academically responsible, and highly motivated applicants.

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ESMOD University Paris Requirements

Fashion Design & Creation

Applicant checklist : a resume, a letter of motivation / personal statement, 1 ID picture, a copy of your passport or identity card, copies of your transcripts from the 2 last semesters
For graduate applicants: a certified copy of your diploma and the records
Other qualifications: copy of your latest diploma, certificate or any document attesting of your experience judged equivalent
For any students who already completed 1 to 3 years of studies in an equivalent field:
The review of the candidacy will be made upon your portfolio:
- courses description of previous instruction, including course contents and total number of hours
- complete design portfolio or book with flat patterns and collection on a CD-ROM
- pictures of garments - if made in pattern drafting on a CD-ROM

Note: For all new accepted students in the 2nd or 3rd year of the underg. Program, upgrading courses in Fashion Design & Pattern making will be compulsory in the beginning of September : 1 week for 2nd year and 2 weeks for 3rd year. 
English level required: for applicants who want to study this program in English
-provide an English language proficiency certificate by the sending of application (TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS or others…)

Kingston University

General

• The preferred entry route for this course is for applicants to be taking an Art & Design Foundation Diploma, or the recognised equivalent.
• Applicants will need a minimum of 280 tariff points from recognised level 3 qualifications.

Plus GCSE (A*–C): five subjects including English and Maths (Key Skills Level 2 may be used in lieu of GCSE English and Maths).

Offers will be made on the basis of your UCAS application, portfolio of work and interview for selected applicants.

Bath Spa University Requirements

We recommend that applicants undertake a pre-degree foundation diploma in Art and Design. However if applying with A-Levels only, a total of 260 points (with a grade B in an Art and Design related subject) is expected, supported by a high quality portfolio.

Applicants applying with a BTEC Extended Diploma are expected to achieve an overall Merit grade (Merit, Merit, Merit).

All applicants will be sent an application project and selection for interview will be based on this submission. For all applicants invited for interview an offer of a place will be made following a successful portfolio review and interview.

Westminster Course Requirements

Selection for the course is highly competitive, and we do not take students straight from A Levels. You will need to have at least five GCSE passes at Grade C or above, including English and Maths, and at least DDM in a BTEC National Award or HNC/HND, or have completed an appropriate Access or Foundation course with a Distinction. If you meet the entry requirements you will be asked to submit example pages from your portfolio. If you are then invited to an interview, you will be asked to present your full portfolio. We are looking for creative individuals who can show evidence of personal expression, creative ideas, related skills, and a depth of subject knowledge.

Qualification type	Grade/points
A Levels	Not applicable
International Baccalaureate	30 points (minimum)
BTEC National Diploma	DDM
Foundation Diploma Art and Design	Distinction
Access to HE Diploma	45 credits at Level 3: 35 Merit + Portfolio required

We do not take students straight from A Levels. You will need to have at least five GCSE passes at Grade c or above, including english and Maths, and at least DDM in a BTEC National Award or HNC/HND, or have completed an appropriate Foundation course with a distinction. Selection for the course is highly competitive. if you meet the entry requirements you will be asked to submit example pages from your portfolio. if you are then invited to an interview, you will be asked to present your full portfolio. We are looking for creative individuals who can show evidence of personal expression, creative ideas, related skills, and a depth of subject knowledge.

We are looking for fashion design students that are ready for the challenges and levels of commitment that this highly successful fashion course demands.

You need to show not only a high level of enthusiasm for the subject of fashion, but be ready to become part of the highly competitive and exciting fashion industry.

The fashion course, through its industry networks and alumni has a prestigious reputation for producing some of the very best designers working in the global fashion industry. Therefore you need to be ready to meet the demands and challenges that such a course will bring. To be successful in the fashion industry takes hard work, passion and determination to succeed.

Since we only take a small, select group of fashion students of approximately 40 students gaining a place on the course is a real achievement and the first step towards a career in fashion.

We strongly advise that you attend an open day so that are aware of the courses facilities and are prepared should you be called to be interviewed.

We expect you to be self motivated, lively and committed to meeting the demands of this exciting, rewarding and highly regarded course.

Central Saint Martins Entry Requirements

• BTEC National Diploma
• Passes at GCSE level or equivalent in 3 subjects (grade C or above)

The type of student they want will be:-

talented, self-motivated fashion enthusiast. Spirited, informed and mature enough to commit to a course that is demanding..you'll thrive in the competitive atmosphere..hard work, flexibility and passion to succeed.

We select applicants according to your potential and current ability to:

Work imaginatively and creatively in 2D and 3D visual and material media

• Engage with experimentation and invention
• Show imagination and ambition in proposals for your work
• Take informed risks

Demonstrate a range of skills and technical abilities

• Through your portfolio, demonstrate a range of approaches to design development, originated from personal experience or visual research and progressed through logical stages to finished design solutions
• Evidence handling a material or medium with sensitivity to its qualities

Show engagement and improvement in a recently learned technical skill

• Demonstrate an awareness of planning and time management skills

Provide evidence of intellectual enquiry within your work

• Demonstrate relevant research skills
• Evidence your ability to evaluate your achievements critically

Demonstrate cultural awareness and/or contextual framework of your work

• Evidence an interest in contemporary fashion design communication and promotion
• Evidence an interest in contemporary fashion design communication and promotion
• Identify social and/or cultural influences on your work
Articulate and communicate intentions clearly
• Discuss your work in individual and group situations
• Present your work appropriately and effectively
Demonstrate commitment and motivation in relation to the subject and the course
• Develop your own ideas and address both set and personal project briefs
• Show willingness to collaborate
• Show initiative
• Your portfolio should demonstrate creative development, whether for a set college project or in your personal work. By creative development, we mean ideas that have originated in your own experience and research and progressed towards potential visual and three-dimensional proposals. We're interested in seeing your ideas, visual research and experimentation as well as finished design solutions. It's important that the creative work you include reflects and demonstrates your thinking, initiative and personal commitment to a particular project, theme or idea.
  Both in terms of your writing and at interview we're interested in you as a creative and enquiring individual. Your personal interests, motivation, creativity and initiative in developing an awareness of fashion, art and design are what matter to us.