Fashion Textiles and Design BA Honours

What will you study on the BA Fashion Textiles and Design?

You will study a full range of specialist fashion and textiles skills spanning traditional handcraft techniques to state-of-the-art digital technologies, including pattern cutting, construction, screen and digital print, knitting, weaving, embroidery and embellishment. Teaching will be focused throughout on widening your awareness of the fashion and textile industries, both in terms of employment opportunities and also the impact fashion and textiles have socially and environmentally.

Links are consistently made between studio work and contextual studies where subjects explored include: fashion history, gender identity, sustainability, fashion cultures, production, consumption and communication of fashion.

What will you gain?

Youll learn a range of hard and soft skills that will support your future career in fashion and textiles. As well as creative design skills including visual and theoretical responses to design briefs, you will gain skills in time management, project planning, collaboration and team working, and you will hone your presentation and communication skills.

Modules

On this unique, innovative and diverse course, you will gain the knowledge and skills across both fashion and textiles to become a multi-faceted, multi-skilled and innovative designer.

With advancements in technology and sustainability at the focus of the modern fashion and textile industries, our programme challenges you to innovate through a combination of traditional handcraft and digital design, creating sustainable and socially responsible ways of working.

Why study fashion textiles and design with us?

This course has been designed with your future in mind. Your learning will be split equally between fashion and textile design and production so that youll graduate with a wide array of skills, opening up vast and varied employment opportunities across both fashion and textiles. Students will have the opportunity to learn skills across knit, weave, print, embroidery and embellishment, as well as learning to pattern cut and construct garments, producing fashion collections incorporating their own textiles.

We value the future of the fashion and textiles industries, as well as your place within it. Thats why we teach with a focus on sustainability and socially responsible design, encouraging you to be the change-maker of the future. Youll be taught by specialist tutors and technicians who all continue to work in the fashion and textiles industries, providing invaluable professional links and insider knowledge.

Course Highlights

• Learn in our state-of the-art Grove building, home to industry-reflective equipment across fashion and textiles, including dobby and digital jacquard looms, screen printing and digital printing, domestic and dubied knitting as well as specialist industrial sewing machines.
• Benefit from getting industry experience, with a 6-week internship embedded within the 2nd year of study, and the opportunity to take a full year out before 3rd year to complete extensive work placements and gaining an additional Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice.
• Collaborate with our other fashion programmes, BA Fashion Design, BA Fashion Communication & Styling and BA Fashion Campaigns and Promotion and our other courses across the creative industries.
• Explore the extremes of your own individual aesthetic, whether that be womenswear, menswear, unisex, gender fluid, plus size whatever you feel passionate about, we support it.

Qualifications

In addition to qualifications such as A level and International Baccalaureate, we accept a wide range of international qualifications.

Find out more about the qualifications we accept from your country on the relevant support in your country page. If you are unsure about the suitability of your qualifications or would like help with your application, please contact your nearest regional office for support.

English language requirements for international students

You must have competence in English language to study with us. The most commonly accepted evidence of English language ability is IELTS 6.0 (with minimum 5.5 in all components). We also normally require Grade C GCSE or an equivalent qualification. Visit our English language requirements page for a full list of accepted tests and qualifications. For some EU countries, we may be able to accept English language competency evidenced through your high school qualification. If you don't meet our minimum English language requirements, we offer an intensive pre-sessional English course.

Visas and immigration

In order to study in the UK, you will need to apply for a student route visa. Please see our visas and immigration page for further information.

How can the BA Fashion Textiles and Design support your career ?

The BA Fashion Textiles & Design course is designed to support your future career developments, preparing you for a successful career in the Fashion and Textile industries.

Graduates from our fashion courses have forged successful and lucrative careers in fashion, textiles, art direction, styling, pattern cutting, sample machining, illustration and associated areas. We have many successful alumni working for brands such as Alexander McQueen, Zandra Rhodes, Christopher Raeburn, Martine Rose, Sadie Williams, H&M, Fenwicks and Net-A-Porter, as well as designers forging careers designing under their own names and receiving press from Vogue, Dazed, Wonderland, iD and Love Magazine.

Our graduates have also progressed onto further studies, completing Masters Degrees at Central St Martins, Royal College of Art, Chelsea College of Art, Westminster University and Kingston University.