This course focuses on contemporary fashion design with an emphasis on designing and making the textiles used in those designs. You will be taught garment manufacturing suitable for womenswear, menswear, or gender-neutral collections. As well as studying fashion design, you will learn to design and create textiles, by decorating surfaces, manipulating fabrics, and constructing your own knitwear. You will be taught by staff who are expert fashion and textile designers, and use cutting-edge equipment located in our 2019 purpose-built £30 million Barbara Hepworth Building.

Why study Fashion Design with Textiles?

• You’ll develop professional skills in fashion design, innovative textile applications, fashion illustration and portfolio techniques, CAD, pattern cutting and garment manufacture techniques.
• We’ll support you in the application of a range of industry standard technology to bring your ideas to life and develop an awareness of sustainable practice.
• Our industry-facing approach, including the opportunity to undertake a placement year, will help prepare you for a career in this exciting and diverse industry.

This course is accredited by the Textile Institute, a worldwide organisation for textiles, clothing and footwear. The course offers an optional one-year (36 weeks minimum) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad. This will give you the opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience, insight into your chosen career and open up your graduate employment prospects. Our Placement Unit and academic staff have excellent industry links and can support you in applying for and finding your placement(s), as well as during your placement year.