BA (Hons) Fashion and Textile Design
Southsea, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
GBP 9,250 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students/EU residents | £16,200/year: international students
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Introduction
Bring your creative and original ideas to life in our multi-award-winning Fashion and Textile Design course.
You'll develop your innovation, self-awareness, and critical thinking via our teaching approach – which integrates sustainable and ethical design principles, focuses on your unique strengths and shapes you into a confident and cultured professional. You'll also develop communication, leadership, and collaboration skills through exchange and enterprise projects, and you’ll build a deep knowledge of traditional and digital making skills using industry-level facilities.
Using innovative research methods, you’ll be able to deliver authentic, imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of what fashion and textile design mean now and in the future.
Course highlights
- Master traditional and modern fashion design methods, including drawing techniques, pattern-cutting, fashion illustration, silkscreen and digital printing, embroidery and constructed textiles
- Further, your creativity, research, practice and environmental specialism by taking part in our sustainable fashion research project PO1
- Bolster your entrepreneurship by setting up your label or fashion and textile company as part of your studies
- Gain valuable industry experience 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 Julian Roberts, Niccolo Casas and Shingo Sato.
- Impress potential employers by exhibiting your work at the University’s annual graduate shows and Graduate Fashion Week showcases in London.
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Curriculum
Modules
Year 1
Core modules this year include:
- Core Skills Fashion and Textiles – 40 credits
- Design Fundamentals – 40 credits
- Digital Designing for Fashion and Textiles – 20 credits
- Introduction to Visual Culture (Fashion and Textile Design) – 20 credits
- Level 4 Personal Tutoring – 0 credits
There are no optional modules this year.
Year 2
Core modules this year include:
- Designer Led Brief – 20 credits
- Enterprise and Industry: Development – 20 credits
- Enterprise and Industry: Research – 20 credits
- Enterprise and Industry: Resolution – 20 credits
- Level 5 Personal Tutoring – 0 credits
Optional modules this year include:
- Engaged Citizenship Through Interdisciplinary Practice – 20 credits
- Exploratory Practice – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language – 20 credits
- Professional Experience – 20 credits
- Student Enterprise – 20 credits
- Visual Culture: Cult, Taste and Collecting – 20 credits
- Visual Culture: Performing Identity – 20 credits
- Visual Culture: Technology and the Image – 20 credits
- Visual Culture: The Body in Practice – 20 credits
Placement year (optional)
In this course, you can do an optional work placement between your second and third years to get valuable experience working in the industry.
We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.
Year 3
Core modules this year include:
- Level 6 Personal Tutoring – 0 credits
- Major Project: Concept – 20 credits
- Major Project: Development – 20 credits
- Major Project: Promotion – 20 credits
- Major Project: Resolution – 20 credits
- Portfolio – 20 credits
Optional modules this year include:
- Visual Culture: Dissertation – 20 credits
- Visual Culture: Research Project – 20 credits
Placement year (optional)
After your second year, you can do an optional work placement to get valuable longer-term work experience in the industry. Placements are also a great way to build upon your existing skills and knowledge for your final-year studies and can make you attractive to employers after you graduate.
You can work with a company or go self-employed and start up your own business with other fellow students or by yourself.
Whatever you decide, you'll get support from our Creative Careers team.
Placement destinations
Previous students have completed work placements at designers such as:
- Paul Smith
- Mary Katrantzou
- Peter Pilotto
Career Opportunities
Careers and opportunities
Our collaborative and project-orientated course will give you the skills to become highly employable.
Graduate areas
Our graduates have worked across design, marketing, communications and commerce in areas such as:
- fashion, textile or accessories design
- trend prediction
- buying
- visual merchandising
- teaching or lecturing
- journalism or writing
Graduate destinations
Our graduates have worked with some of the biggest names in fashion and major retailers, including:
- Ralph Lauren
- Hugo Boss
- Matthew Williamson
- River Island
- Fat Face
- Marks and Spencer
Ongoing careers support
Get experience while you study, with support to find part-time jobs, volunteering opportunities, and work experience. You can also venture into freelancing or set up and run your own business with help from the University Startup Team.
Towards the end of your degree and up to five years after graduation, you’ll receive one-to-one support from our Graduate Recruitment Consultancy to help you find your perfect role.
Graduate startups
Previous students in this course have also set up their fashion and textile labels. For example:
- Sunny Williams set up his label, House of Sunny, in 2011 and has developed minimal, androgynous aesthetic womenswear, which sells internationally and is stocked by ASOS.
- Nikki Strange created her own-name line for Marks and Spencer in 2015 and works as a freelance textile designer and visiting lecturer.
Creative Careers
Our in-faculty Creative Careers team has extensive recruitment experience and knows the creative sector well, making it easier for students to find placements within the creative industries.
They can guide you through every step of the application process, including:
- Searching for the ideal job through their database of vacancies
- Giving tips on how to write an interesting CV that will catch employers' attention, no matter the role
- Organising mock interviews, so you can hone your technique and familiarise yourself with the recruitment environment
- Writing your startup business proposal – if you're going down the self-employment route
The team will continue to give you support throughout your placement year.