Monsoon Accessorize MA Fashion Futures Student Scholarship

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Monsoon Accessorize MA Fashion Futures Student Scholarship students must be:

• Accepted on the full-time MA Fashion Futures course at London College of Fashion, UAL starting in September 2025.

About

Monsoon Accessorize is a lifestyle brand that enriches everyday life with natural beauty, positivity and endless discovery. They are passionate about connecting contemporary designs with a network of craftspeople, creating unique collections to be cherished. Monsoon Accessorize are committed to change, making beautiful garments and accessories that bring prosperity to the communities that they work with, and conscious about their impact on the environment.

Monsoon Accessorize try to integrate sustainability into their business as usual, rather than as a stand-alone part of our business. They’ve mapped out their largest areas of impact, creating goals where they can really make a significant positive change, continually striving to bring sustainability into all they do. Through this scholarship, Monsoon Accessorize aim to support an MA Fashion Futures student to help further sustainable thinking aligned with the company’s goals, and ultimately to drive sustainability within the fashion industry.

Future Activation Lab (FAL) is the company’s new in-house sustainability initiative that aims to identify the fashion industry’s biggest sustainability challenges and create world-class solutions. The cross-industry projects bring together the retailer’s product knowledge and commercial experience, academic research, innovators’ future-thinking ideas and the practical skills of the suppliers.

The scholarship will be assessed on the basis of financial need and academic merit. It will provide a contribution towards course fees and/or living costs and/or provide other financial support to the scholars including but not limited to assistance with the cost of degree show materials.

Monsoon Accessorize are looking for applicants with a demonstrable commitment to sustainability. Your application and project proposal should evidence this commitment and demonstrate potential for critical thinking, innovation and creativity. In particular Monsoon Accessorize are interested in supporting proposals that address any of the following areas:

• regenerative fashion, including raw materials, processes and design
• zero-waste design and digital innovation, including solutions for pre-consumer waste and products that fail quality control.

Applications are welcome from those who are in financial hardship and those who will benefit from postgraduate studies to realise their full potential.

Receiving payment

The scholarship will provide a contribution towards provide a contribution towards course fees and/or living costs and/or provide other financial support to the scholars including but not limited to assistance with the cost of degree show materials.

Tuition fees will be paid directly from the award into the University’s Tuition Fees account.

Living costs payments will be paid in four termly instalments to the award recipient.