BA (Hons) Fashion and Textile Design

Bring your creative and original ideas to life in our multi-award-winning Fashion and Textile Design course.

You'll develop your innovation, self-awareness, and critical thinking via our teaching approach – which integrates sustainable and ethical design principles, focuses on your unique strengths and shapes you into a confident and cultured professional. You'll also develop communication, leadership, and collaboration skills through exchange and enterprise projects, and you’ll build a deep knowledge of traditional and digital making skills using industry-level facilities.

Using innovative research methods, you’ll be able to deliver authentic, imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of what fashion and textile design mean now and in the future.

Course highlights

• Master traditional and modern fashion design methods, including drawing techniques, pattern-cutting, fashion illustration, silkscreen and digital printing, embroidery and constructed textiles
• Further, your creativity, research, practice and environmental specialism by taking part in our sustainable fashion research project PO1
• Bolster your entrepreneurship by setting up your label or fashion and textile company as part of your studies
• Gain valuable industry experience by taking an optional placement – either with a company or as self-employed
• Enhance your collaboration and team-working skills by working with other students on other courses in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
• Get insight into the fashion industry by attending guest lectures by visiting international professionals – previous visitors include Julian Roberts, Niccolo Casas and Shingo Sato.
• Impress potential employers by exhibiting your work at the University’s annual graduate shows and Graduate Fashion Week showcases in London.

We’re proud to be a breath of fresh air in the academic world – a place where everyone gets the support they need to achieve their best. We’re always discovering. We don’t fit the mould, we break it. Just as the world keeps moving, so do we.

We’re closely involved with our local community, and we take our ideas into the global marketplace. We partner with businesses, industry, and government to set the course for a better future. And we educate and transform the lives of our students to help them achieve their potential. We stand out, not just in the UK but in the world. We excel in research areas from cosmology and astrophysics to cybersecurity, forensics, and sport science. Since the first day we opened our doors, we've looked towards the future. And we're here to help you shape it.