About the course
The Fashion Design with Textiles BA(Hons) course focuses on contemporary fashion and textile design and garment production for womenswear, menswear or unigender, with the specialism of textile design as a raw material for fashion design, through surface embellishment, fabric manipulation, and constructed textiles such as knitwear.
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.
Reasons to study
- Explore the balance between creative and commercial requirements in pursuing sophisticated contemporary design solutions.
- Career prospects: 90% of graduates are in work/further study fifteen months after graduating.
- Competitions and live briefs, along with an exciting schedule of visiting speakers from industry, will give you the opportunity to be inspired, and truly engage with this diverse industry.
Course detail
Year 1
Core modules:
- Fashion Design Practice 1
- Fashion Design Practice 2
- Introduction to Critical and Contextual Studies
- Textiles for Fashion 1
Year 2
Core modules:
- Tailoring
- Fashion Design through Creative Cut
- Theoretical and Ethical Studies
- Textiles for Fashion 2
Year 3 - optional placement year
* Scholarships available for international students.
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