Overview

Our MA Fashion and Textiles degree course will help you develop the skills and critical awareness you need to pursue your creative talents in research, enterprise, or a creative career or practice.

On this workshop-based course, you'll develop your core practice in a fashion or textile context, unique to Portsmouth. You'll identify and explore your own motivation, be challenged to create designs, and develop your own digital and physical fashion products, using our excellent facilities that are a playground for creatives like you.

You'll also learn and hone transferable skills, gaining the confidence and tools needed to become a successful innovator and leader.

Whatever the focus of your studies, you'll strengthen your creative, critical, and practical abilities to achieve considered, professional results that are commercially viable. Whether you're interested in a leadership or management role, or starting your own business, this course can help you accomplish your goals in a constantly growing industry.

Course highlights

• Take opportunities to do cross-disciplinary work or collaborate on funded research and innovation projects – past ones include client-set briefs to work with architects, photographers, and scientists
• Get professional experience through work-based learning
• Combine traditional skills and techniques with new digital technologies in our world-class facilities
• Produce a major project based on your own research, supervised by academic, technical, and/or business mentors
• Hear from inspirational guest speakers from creative fields
• Organise or take part in individual or group exhibitions or events
• Go on optional study visits to cultural and industrial hubs in the UK and abroad – such as previous trips to Premiere Vision (Paris) and Future Fabrics Expo (London).

Careers this Master's prepares you for

This MA Fashion and Textiles degree will prepare you to explore your creative practice or pursue management opportunities within two globally in-demand industries. From design to export, the UK is a rich international source for fashion and textiles. In 2020, it exported almost £6 billion in fashion, and £3 billion in textiles (UKFT, 2020) worldwide, so you'll graduate with best practice and knowledge from a reputable contributor to these industries.