Quick Facts
Duration:Tuition Hours:
Language:
Credits:
Tuition Fee:
Registration Fee: 3 years
9am to 4pm
English
180 ECTS
9.000€ per academic year
500€ (first year only)
Fashion design is the application of art and aesthetics to clothing and accessories. Fashion is big business, and if you want to help shape the trends of the future, and feel passionate about expressing art via the clothes you wear, then fashion design is for you.
Graduated fashion designers from Marbella Design Academy either follow their dreams to create their own brand, or choose employment by one of the many established fashion houses locally or globally.
Spain is a mecca for fashion design, and who does not know the Zara fashion empire with hundreds of shops worldwide. The owner Amancio Ortega is the richest man in Spain today.
In the province of Malaga alone, we have many respected fashions designers who export their designs around the World. To mention a few: Su-Shi handbags, Dolfie shoes, Mayoral and Charanga Childrens wear, PepaLoves, Oltimara ladies fashion, Anastasia Benitez shawls and cardigans and Gisela underwear and swimwear.
Study Fashion Design at Marbella Design Academy and you study in a hub of internationally acclaimed fashion designers.
The Fashion Design education offered to students at Marbella Design Academy is designed to accomplish high academic standards in an exciting exploration into the most contemporary techniques and processes.
The presence of creative design is a visible and prominent feature of all arte facts and products encountered in our daily lives. To supply graduates with the necessary resources to allow them to excel as professionals in the ever-evolving Fashion Design industry, the programme proposes a progressive and stimulating curricula to motivate their enthusiasm, and offer strong groundwork to face the challenges of the marketplace.
Our main aim is to equip students with the necessary skills and understanding in design and technology, in order to explore and apply bold creativity to the expression of ideas and in the resolution of conceptual or constructional problems.
The Fashion Course employs a creative and wide-ranging collection of current techniques in use in the professional world of fashion design. These include 'toile' or sample making, haute couture and production sewing techniques, range research and design methods, print and pattern creation.
Life and fashion drawing as well as CAD for illustration are mastered to command the technical construction skills needed for pattern cutting and block drafting. This will allow students to develop complex and avant-garde design in clothing and encourage the exploration and understanding of technical concepts in construction by way of pattern cutting and 'modeling on the stand'.
The student's intellectual competence and ability will be developed in order to confront the challenges of a highly competitive fashion environment, allowing them not only to select appropriate techniques in order to realize their concept, but also to discuss and debate the important ethical and economic issues that affect the industry today.
Teaching and Learning Strategies
To ensure the students' acquisition of the skills and knowledge that will consolidate their roll in the professional field, a variety of teaching/learning strategies will be used. These will include:
- Lectures - Introducing ideas and exploring contextual or critical issues. Briefing classroom assignments as well as independent projects.
- Staff-led Seminars – developing and discussing contextual issues relevant to the curricula
- Workshops - in which specific skills are analysed, related issues, technical challenges or problems are taught and specialized techniques are practised.
- Visiting Seminars & Master Classes - in which students will be exposed to a wide range of issues in relation to contemporary practice in the field.
- Educational Trips and Visits - to develop an awareness of contemporary practice and a range of references for use in approaching problems in a professional environment.
- Tutorials - used both individually and in small groups, for the close attention to the development of each individual's work and monitoring of their progress.
All teaching delivered at module level is designed to support the development of individual and independent learning and is organised as:
- Supported: taught time, such as lectures, seminars, tutorials etc. where students are offered direct support for their education by staff.
- Directed: where students are carrying out assignments overseen by teaching staff.
- Independent: study or assignment period completely independent of tutors.
Aims of our Academic Programmes
At the Marbella Design Academy, we aim to ensure students a full education to consolidate their professional resourcefulness and projection in the industry of their choosing. To achieve this, MDA strives to:
- Provide students with a programme designed to offer comprehensive and balanced knowledge incorporated within an intellectually demanding study scheme, allowing them to evolve towards assuming a professional position in continuous evolution within their chosen industry.
- Provide students with well-honed practical capacities and in depth understanding of the realities of ever-changing technology within their field, ensuring permanent growth of their resourcefulness and creativity.
- To provide students with in depth training on the commercial aspects of their chosen profession, in order to allow them to exploit the acquired capacities and knowledge.
- To provide students with the opportunity to develop transferable skills referring to communication, self management, time management and problem solving, as well as a comprehension of the complexity of human relations both in a social and personal context within this and other professional fields.
- To provide students with a profound analytical capacity, critical awareness and intellectual independence, stimulating originality of the thought process.
- To provide students with the capacity to challenge conventions and engage in ground-breaking evolution of their chosen field with the means to defend their ideas and decisions with informed conviction.