BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Creative Direction Bachelor's degree at Southampton Solent University

This module will expand your understanding of past and contemporary contexts while developing core skills in research, concept development, and shoot planning. By studying diverse image-making approaches and fashion theory, you will gain essential knowledge of the techniques, practices, and collaborative roles that drive successful fashion imagery.

The aim of this module is to change the way you look at fashion images to better understand the power of visuals and their place in the world. You will look at fashion and beauty imagery from a theoretical point of view and use this deeper understanding to support the creation of your own practical work.

This module offers a practice-led introduction to the core subjects and skills required for producing beauty focused imagery for editorial and advertising contexts. Through lectures, group seminars, and technical workshops, you will develop an informed understanding of trend driven visuals and the cultural influences shaping contemporary beauty media.

This module introduces you to the creative, technical, and collaborative processes behind producing professional fashion shoots for editorial fashion publications. You will learn how to conceptualize, plan, style, photograph, and deliver a fashion story tailored to both brand identity and audience.

This shared, interdisciplinary module provides a 'launchpad' for students across our fashion courses, to collaborate on a live brief - mirroring the professional creative team environment. This client-focused module will give you the confidence to get out into industry and give you the ability to apply the skills gained during your first year of studies.

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of fashion film and moving image, from its experimental beginnings to contemporary brand-led productions, while exploring how film and animation shape modern visual communication.

This module explores emerging technologies, campaign production, moving image, and future trends to build knowledge of digital fashion platforms and industry practice, enabling you to create design-led, practice-based research that is trend aware, technically grounded as developing creative directors.

This module provides an essential opportunity to critically engage with the complex political, social, and cultural landscapes that shape the contemporary fashion industry. Students will be able to choose a cultural, political, or social issue that they are passionate about, investigate it, and express their thoughts and feelings about it through a variety of media.

This module gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your combined technical and practical skills with critical thinking, and present yourself as an informed and progressive visual communicator.

This module consolidates skills developed through previous levels in preparation for your graduation and career launch. You will learn to define, research, and develop an industry-standard project aligned to a career plan or graduate destination. Through a self-determined topic, you will hone your skills in communication, interrogation and innovation.

Using your specialist skills, you will plan and create a substantial, high-quality body of work that directly addresses the needs of your future career plan. This will be completed through either a self-directed project or an industry-led opportunity, such as a micro-placement, live brief, or competition.

This module will support you in refining your career direction by critically assessing current industry practice and your own body of work. By identifying your strengths and areas of development in relation to your chosen industry direction, you'll build professional confidence and establish a link between academic study and professional application.