MA Creative Direction for Fashion Media

Our MA Creative Direction for Fashion Media is an exceptional, industry-centred programme that unveils the fascinating realms of visual storytelling, media branding, and multi-media production. Rooted in the vast reservoir of knowledge and expertise held by Condé Nast, this programme presents an exhilarating blend of structured academic instruction, hands-on technical workshops, self-driven research, and enriching masterclasses facilitated by esteemed industry pioneers. Together, these elements lead students on a transformative journey through the creative, commercial, and critical dimensions of fashion media across print, digital, and experiential platforms.

Situated within the College’s postgraduate Fashion Media portfolio, which also includes master’s programmes in Fashion Styling, Fashion Media Strategy, and Fashion Journalism, by pursuing our MA Creative Direction for Fashion Media you will share some taught sessions and projects with your counterparts in other Fashion Media master’s programmes. This collaborative approach ensures that you acquire a holistic and dynamic understanding of the fashion media industries.

At its core, this programme is a launchpad for you to evolve into an adept practitioner in your chosen field within fashion media. It is engineered to nurture essential transferable skills in communication, critical thinking, reflective analysis, and expert project management, thus empowering you to innovate and stretch the boundaries as fashion storytellers, media industry leaders, or visionaries in visual communication.

Notably, Condé Nast College boasts unparalleled access to industry luminaries, including the editorial and business teams behind iconic publications such as Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Tatler, House & Garden, World of Interiors, and WIRED. This unique advantage allows us to combine academic rigour with outstanding industry connections, creating an educational environment like no other.

Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design stands as a cornerstone of industry preparation. This programme’s ultimate goal is to seamlessly bridge the gap between academia and professional employment, weaving theory and academic study into the fabric of industry practice. As a student on this course, you will be immersed in real-world industry scenarios, equipping you to continually elevate your knowledge and understanding, and cultivate new skills to an exemplary level post-graduation. You will also be offered a golden opportunity to engage in a four-week immersive work experience as a vital component of your professional development journey during the programme.

The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design

The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design provides student with a world-class fashion education in the heart of London.

Our courses fuse exciting and intensive academic learning with unrivalled access to the best and brightest minds in the industry, including the teams at Vogue, Glamour, GQ, Wired and a host of other Condé Nast titles.

The College provides highly creative courses combined with a solid foundation in the business side of the industry. The purpose of our courses is to prepare students for a multitude of jobs/; styling, journalism, fashion buying, marketing, branding, graphic design, PR, digital strategy, business, events entrepreneurship, e-commerce and many more career paths.

We currently offer the following accredited courses – the MA Fashion Media Strategy, MA Creative Direction for Fashion Media, MA Fashion Journalism, MA Fashion Communication, MA Entrepreneurship: Fashion and Creative Industries, MA Luxury Brand Management (in collaboration with Richmond University), the BA (Hons) Fashion Communication, the one-year Vogue Foundation Programme, Diploma and three Certificate.

Our short courses include the four-week Vogue Intensive Summer Course, the 5-days of... courses: Fashion Styling Course, Fashion Journalism Course, Fashion Business Course, Creative Direction and the Vogue Teen Weekend as well as six-week online Insights courses.

We are accepting applications all year round and look forward to welcoming you to the Condé Nast family.

Studying at the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design is an exciting, engaging and uniquely enriching experience.

With access to some of the most outstanding creative minds in the business, plus intensive, vocationally-styled courses and a busy timetable—both in our new, modern building and beyond into galleries, studios and so on—students will find their days at the Condé Nast College are both busy and rewarding. We believe that the friendships that the students make with one another while they are studying with us are as important as the networking opportunities they will have with an enormous number of external industry professionals. As a result, we encourage a rich, engaged and collegiate attitude from our students while they are here with us, allowing them to forge firm friendships that they will carry forward into their myriad, and undoubtedly stellar, careers all over the globe.

Careers

The Condé Nast College places our students in a position to reach their dream career. The College offers excellent industry links and partnerships. Students not only gain a thorough preparation for business life, they have already had extensive engagement with the professional world before leaving the College. Work experience/internships at Condé Nast may be offered to a select group of the most talented students. The College cannot pledge work placements at other companies but it will make introductions and recommendations for star students. The College’s careers advisor is able to guide students on further study, employment opportunities, internships, placements and projects relevant to each student’s requirements. They offer a professional service designed to respond to individual needs. The career advisor also hold workshops on CV writing, portfolio presentation, job search skills and interview techniques. Please note individual career guidance is only available for students on our accredited courses - all the MA programmes, the BA (Hons) Fashion Communication, the Vogue Foundation Programme, Diploma & Certificate programmes.