The Fashion Design programme at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts conveys various methods, both analog and digital, to design fashion with high quality standards and a proximity to hands-on work. It also examines the phenomenon how a design for a garment as a finished product tells its story via its representation and presentation.

Furthermore, our courses offer a broad, professional spectrum of fashion in theory and practice: i.e. fashion from its foundations and preliminary designs to exhibitions and fashion shows to fashion portrayal, which ranges from illustration to photography, animation and video. The programme also addresses sociology, the history of design, trend analysis, research and marketing.

For the most part, from the first semester our students work in small groups with experienced professors and lecturers in interdisciplinary exchanges in seminars and courses. Artistic foundations awaken students’ creative potential. Interdisciplinary studies in constant communication with other study programmes at the university, such as Visual Communication, Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography, Media Design, Interior Design, Product Design and Scenography-Costume-Experimental Design, broaden their artistic horizons. This is a special attribute of the Fashion Design programme at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Excursions to significant fashion and fabric fairs (Paris, Munich, Berlin) and exhibitions belong to our programme just as much as practical projects with various partners from the industry.

The Design Center has top-of-the-line, professional equipment. The many different studios, workshops and laboratories are available for students to do their practical work. In the workshops, they will experiment not only with pure textiles, but primarily with pliable materials. Moreover, they will research sustainable design methods and new materials. Access to computers with fashion-specific software for 2D and 3D work as well as our photo and film studio offers students many possibilities for personal growth and development into professional designers.

Students have the option to spend one semester at one of our international partner institutions. Professors and students come from Europe and around the world to teach, learn and work together. Upon request, specialist seminars take place in English; moreover, Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts offers students on-campus language courses free of charge in order to prepare students for a stay abroad.

Students concretely apply the foundations they have learned in many fashion projects carried out with our practical partners. The internship phase, which starts in the fifth semester and involves work with a fashion label or design company, is an integral component of this programme, for it prepares students for their working lives.

Graduates of the Fashion Design programme develop collections and design products for fashion labels, fashion companies and designer brands. Starting from a design, they are prepared for the many different activities of the industry in areas ranging from sustainability, marketing, advertising, journalism, social media, digital worlds, art direction, illustration, trend scouting, research and theory to the establishment of their own labels.

Guidance sessions that inform prospective students about the artistic aptitude test are announced on our website at www.modedesign-studium.de and take place at the Design Center. We strongly recommend participating in one of these sessions.

Apart from this, the Service Centre at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts keeps all students and prospective students informed concerning admission requirements and funding possibilities. For more information about student guidance, please go to: hs-h.de/studienberatung.

Every student pays a fee each semester. This fee includes a student pass for the Greater Hanover Transport Area (GVH), a public transport pass for Lower Saxony, a student fee, membership in the Students’ Union and an administration fee. More information is available at: hs-h.de/semesterbeitrag-und-rueckmeldung.

Every student pays a fee each semester. This fee includes a student pass for the Greater Hanover Transport Area (GVH), a public transport pass for Lower Saxony, a student fee, membership in the Students’ Union and an administration fee. More information is available at: hs-h.de/semesterbeitrag-und-rueckmeldung.