BA(Hons) Fashion Textiles

Learn to create garments, accessories and textile collections for fashion and interiors through sustainably driven and digitally enabled design.

Why study fashion textiles?

Fashion textiles is the largest of the UK creative industries; designers and creatives in this field are globally recognised for their skills and innovation. Today's fashion and textile designers are agile creatives exploring new ideas and solutions across all areas of contemporary culture.

Why UWE Bristol?

BA(Hons) Fashion Textiles teaches you about all areas of fashion textiles, from the design and production of textiles through to the design and manufacture of fashion product. You'll develop projects through fashion design, textile design or fashion textile futures outcomes.

You'll engage in studio, technical and digital skills development, as well as a core pattern cutting curriculum to support the translation of your ideas from 2D - 3D.

Develop skills and creative approaches to enable you to explore and re-think the role and impact of fashion textiles on the world around us.

You'll be supported to develop your professional and entrepreneurial skills through our Professional Practice modules. You'll also work with industry experts on live studio briefs and gain hands-on experience by undertaking an optional year in industry.

You'll study at City Campus; our creative powerhouse spanning Bristol, where you'll have access to dedicated studio spaces, specialist workshop facilities, and extensive library resources. It consists of Bower Ashton and renowned contemporary arts centres Spike Island, Arnolfini and Watershed.

Showcase your work at high profile national and international events such as London Fashion Week, Graduate Fashion Week and The British Fashion Council's Graduate Preview Day.

Which of these courses is right for me?

As well as the BA(Hons), we offer our BA(Hons) Fashion Textiles with an integrated Foundation Year as preparation if you don't yet have the right qualifications to join at Year one.

Where can it take me?

Many of our graduates go on to secure successful careers with high profile designers and companies like Craig Green, Matthew Williamson, Cos and Victoria Beckham.

Choose from a wide range of roles such as fashion designer, textile designer, product developer, pattern cutter, studio manager or fashion buyer. Some graduates set up their own businesses or go onto postgraduate study and research. Developing professional, research and enterprise skills, you can shape the course in the direction you want to go in. Whatever you choose to do, our team of subject experts and Careers Service are there to support you.

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Take a look how our graduates Amy and Michalis are changing the future of fashion.

Read how one of our former students won the prestigious Venture Ready Award after setting up her sustainable fashion business, AKN JEANS.

Have a look at some of our students' latest work in our 2021 yearbook, 2022 yearbook, 2023 yearbook and 2024 yearbook.

The image above shows the fantastic work from one of our students (Alice Davis, 2023 Fashion Textiles graduate).

Careers / Further study

You'll benefit from regular professional input from guest lecturers. Past speakers include Phoebe English, Eric Bremner, Creative Director at MaxMara; Iain Ewing, Head of Design Womenswear and Accessories at John Lewis; Jenny Postle-Cope, Womenswear Designer at Missoni; Richard Malone, Bethany Williams, Rottingdean Bazaar, Fashion East; and Frances Walker, Creative Design Consultant of Menswear at French Connection.

As well as making sure that the course reflects industry, experts come in to present and deliver live briefs. Recent collaborative partners include Phoebe English, Henri Lloyd, Cos, Shield 360 Workwear, Topshop, Mulberry and Next Sourcing.

Showcase your work at some of the UK's highest profile Graduate Events such as Graduate Fashion Week, British Fashion Council Graduate Preview Day and London Fashion Week Digital. Our degree show showcases our most exciting graduate work in art, design, filmmaking and media. We also encourage you to show work on and off-line throughout the course and will help you develop the skills to do this. See our showcase of student work from the BA(Hons) Fashion Textiles course at UWE Bristol.

Our graduates progress into three main professional contexts; industry, enterprise development or research and postgraduate study.

You could build a career with a high-profile company like Craig Green, Erdem, Superdry, H&M and Levi's in roles such as fashion designer, textile designer, garment technologist, product developer, pattern cutter or fashion buyer. Or you might choose to set up your own businesses or go onto postgraduate study and research to develop your practice.

The course is structured to enable you to realise your ambitions and shape the course in the direction you want to go in. Whatever you choose to do, our team of subject experts and careers service are there to support you.

Get inspired

Our award-winning careers service will develop your employment potential through career coaching and help find you graduate jobs, placements and global opportunities.

We can also help find local volunteering and community opportunities, provide support for entrepreneurial activity and get you access to employer events.

Visit our Graduate destinations pages to learn more about careers, employers and what our students are doing six months after graduating.