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BA (Hons) Costume

  • Duration: 3 or 4 years full-time
  • Placement year: Optional 1 year
  • Course code: W452 (UCAS)
  • Institution code: A66 (UCAS)
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Overview

Our BA (Hons) Costume degree gives you an unrivaled opportunity to explore the exciting world of the many aspects of the costume profession, and he creative industries in the UK, which are some of the best in the world.


A 17th century jacket embroidered on one side with an intricate floral pattern.

Our approach encourages students to break boundaries and tell stories that truly resonate.

You'll develop the skills, knowledge, and professional mindset to thrive in the competitive and evolving costume industry.

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Join the UK's largest film school outside London

Our unique teaching and learning model places you in real-world production settings, allowing you, as costume makers and designers to work closely with aspiring directors, producers, writers, actors and make-up artists.

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Final-year student Daisy talks about going from self-taught sewing to discovering the art of millinery on BA (Hons) Costume. Also, you can hear several students sharing their experiences working and collaborating in different costume roles on AUB Productions shows.

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Student gallery

Looking to be inspired? Explore our gallery of costumes designed, produced and tailored by our BA (Hons) Costume students and alumni.

A person in Elizabethan-style costume looking down towards the floor.
Two mannequins dressed in 19th century Wuthering Heights-inspired costumes. One with a men's frock coat, waistcoat, trousers and top hat and holding a cane; the other wearing an orange patterned day dress and bonnet.
A 17th century jacket embroidered on one side with an intricate floral pattern.
Person in pantomime dame-style costume poses for a photo.
A model shown side-on, wearing a 19th century lobster-inspired dress.
Two period costumes – a dress and a three-piece suit – on display on two mannequins.
Close-up of a period-style cress with the model's hands visible.
People gathered in a backstage room in the middle of a costume fitting.
Model in a period dress and hairstyle poses for a photo.
A BA (Hons) Acting student wearing an 18th century costume and wig, performing in La Casa Nova at Palace Court Theatre.
Close-up of a purple men's 19th century double-breasted jacket on a mannequin.
Close-up of a long men's jacket with a red and gold waistcoat underneath, on a mannequin.
Actors wearing 1930s-inspired costumes for Wimbledon.
A model viewed side-on wearing a headdress with a ship in it.
A person standing against a plain background in 18th century costume.
A person standing against a plain background in an 18th century-style costume and wig.

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A large audience in period costume sitting in stands watching a tennis match.
A person in a ragged fairytale-style costume and floral headdress raises her arms up.
Performers in a period film. An actress in costume as a tennis player holds a gold shield trophy. A crowd of people in period costume are stood behind them, applauding.
Six BA (Hons) Acting students sitting along a high-backed wooden bench, all wearing period-style costumes while performing AUB Productions' "Masque Macabre".
A model poses for a photo in a period-style riding habit and headdress.
A model poses for a photo wearing a pantomime dame-style dress and bonnet.
A model poses for a photo while wearing a pink period-style costume.
Military costume and women's underwear

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