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A Level Fashion - Art and Design

at Truro and Penwith College, Truro · college

Level 3A levelsGCE A level2 yearsFull time

What the college says

Do you enjoy drawing and designing garments and accessories, as well as the challenge of bringing your ideas to life through making? The Fashion course will encourage you to develop a creative and experimental approach to contemporary fashion design and costume design. Learn how to develop innovative solutions to a fashion or costume design brief through in-depth research, experimentation and sample making. Take your ideas from designs to final concepts, gaining skills in the processes needed to produce garments. You will also broaden your knowledge on various designers, taking inspiration from their work to use in your own creations.

What you need to get on

In addition to general A Level entry requirements a keen interest in drawing to develop your creativity, as a design stimulus and as a means of gathering creative ideas and making them visible is absolutely essential.

How you are assessed

Academic subjects, mostly exams, three or four at once. The traditional route to university.

What this level means

The A-level-equivalent step, and what universities and employers ask for.

Is it open to 16 to 18 year olds?

Approved for 16 to 18 study on the government's Section 96 list.

Where it runs

Start dates

  • 1 September 2026 · Truro

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