Bring your creative ideas to life using industry-level facilities on our multi-award-winning BA (Hons) Fashion Design degree course.

You’ll grow into a confident, knowledgeable fashion professional via our teaching approach-combining fashion and textile design and encouraging innovation, self-awareness, and critical thinking. Your unique strengths are recognised and valued in all you do on this course. You'll develop communication, leadership, and collaboration skills through creative exchange and enterprise projects, and build a deep knowledge of traditional and digital making skills using industry-leading CLO3D. Vital sustainable and ethical design principles and innovative research methods underpin your learning and creativity.

At Portsmouth, 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 innovative fashion design methods, including pattern-cutting, fashion illustration, silkscreen print, embroidery, and constructed textiles and biomaterials

Explore sustainable design methods to help you change the fashion industry for the future
Gain valuable industry experience and entrepreneurship skills 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 Mohsin Sajid, Niccolo Casas and Shingo Sato
Showcase your skills by exhibiting your work at the University’s annual graduate show
Opt to do a foundation year with ICP to get uni-ready ahead of this course, then take up a guaranteed place on this full Bachelor's degree when you successfully finish your foundation year

5 years sandwich with foundation year and work placement