Portfolio advice for MA Digital Fashion applicants

Portfolio Requirements

For the MA Digital Fashion course you’ll be able to upload your portfolio via the UCA Applicant Portal.  

You should submit a 30-page portfolio that demonstrates your curiosity, experimentation and critical thinking around fashion in digital, virtual and hybrid environments. Your portfolio may include digital garments, 3D experimentation, virtual environments, character or avatar styling, world building, speculative fashion concepts or digitally led visual outcomes. Both finished work and works in progress are welcome where they help communicate your creative thinking and development.

If you are from a fashion background you should show how your practice translates into digital contexts. If you are from a games, animation, film, graphic design or related disciplines should demonstrate a clear connection to fashion, embodiment, identity or visual culture.

We value quality over quantity. A small number of well-considered projects that show experimentation, ambition and creative direction is preferred over large volumes of work.

As part of your portfolio, you should include a 500-word project proposal. This should outline the area of practice you are interested in developing on the course and demonstrate how your ideas connect to relevant historical, contemporary and cultural contexts.  Your proposal should include:

• the background and motivations informing your interests
• the focus or questions you wish to explore through your practice
• the critical, theoretical or cultural references that inform your thinking
• the methods, processes or approaches you anticipate using

The proposal will help us assess how you think, research and develop ideas for postgraduate studies.

Use of AI 

Your portfolio must contain your own work. We understand that some of your portfolio may include work created in part or whole by AI. You must acknowledge this by adding ‘AI generated’ to the relevant section(s), stating how you used AI to create images, and adding a link to the original image with the date it was created (where possible).