Portfolio Requirements

For our BA (Hons) Studio Practice (Fashion Design), BA (Hons) Studio Practice (Fashion Image & Styling) and BA (Hons) Studio Practice (Make-up & Hair Design) (top-up) courses we’re looking for up to 12 to 20 examples of your current work that showcases your level and range of achievements.  

Your portfolio should show relevant skills and your ability to develop a project or idea and should include: 

  • Books, sketchbooks or worksheets
  • Written work, research or essays
  • Your work may also include free-hand sketches or finished works, and other preparatory work. 

If it's not possible to bring your work in physical form, then the best thing to do is to save it (or photos of it) to a USB stick, as well as on the laptop/tablet you'll be bringing to your applicant day. Please make sure the work on your USB stick is not password protected, as we may ask you to leave it with us so we can review your portfolio without you present. 

You'll be invited to share your work with the course team at an Applicant Day. Our Admissions Team will invite you to book your place at one of our Applicant Days after you have applied. 

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). 

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Online Portfolios

If you are unable to attend an Applicant Day for this course, you will be asked to supply an online portfolio. 

For this course, we’re looking for up to 12 examples of your current work, in the form of images, links and documents in one PDF file, that showcases your level and range of achievements. 

If you have a website or a video to showcase, please include screenshots and URL links. Your portfolio should show relevant skills and your ability to develop a project or idea. You should include: 

  • books/sketchbooks/worksheets
  • written work/research
  • your work may include free-hand sketches or finished works; notes, sketchbooks and other preparatory work would be welcome 

To support your work and to help us understand you as a creator, we would also like for you to write a commentary about your portfolio, which talks about your ideas, thoughts, and motivations. This allows us to better review your portfolio without you present. 

The Admissions Team will email you instructions on how to upload an online portfolio. 

Further information

If you have any more questions about your portfolio please get in touch with our Admissions team:

If you have additional needs you haven’t yet told us about – whether it’s learning support or physical assistance – we can work with you and support you through the application process. Please contact relevant campus to discuss this with us:

Getting in touch early gives us plenty of time to discuss any reasonable adjustments you might need.