Program Overview

Bring your creative and original ideas to life on our multi-award-winning Fashion and Textile Design degree 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 means 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 own 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