BA (Hons) Fashion and Beauty Media with foundation year in Southampton United Kingdom | Southampton Solent University

Channel your love for fashion and beauty into becoming a versatile storyteller – learning from industry professionals while working with top-tier facilities to create compelling content and campaigns for British brands.
The Design Foundation Year equips you with essential creative, technical, and academic skills required for degree-level studies in art, design, or fashion. After finishing, you can advance to the BA (Hons) Fashion and Beauty Media program.

Today's fashion and beauty sectors seek adaptable professionals capable of producing diverse 360° content for both editorial and commercial outlets. This degree will shape you into a skilled storyteller, crafting future-forward campaigns using words, imagery, video, and digital graphics with an emphasis on innovation and sustainability.

This hands-on program, led by industry veterans, trains you in developing fashion/beauty content, executing powerful social media strategies, crafting trend-focused narratives, designing professional campaigns, and analyzing market connections between editorial and commercial spheres. You'll pioneer fresh approaches to audience engagement while showcasing your creative vision on a worldwide multimedia platform.

If you're exploring career paths in PR, editorial, marketing, trend analysis, or creative content development, we'll help you discover the vast opportunities within fashion and beauty. The course maintains flexibility, letting you build a diverse professional portfolio while gradually specializing in your ideal career direction.

Curriculum highlights include influencer marketing, fashion/beauty photography, social media strategy, digital fashion design, sustainable practices, PR/media business, plus essential modules on styling and writing for both print and digital fashion/beauty platforms.

4 years including foundation year