Fashion and Textile Design BA (Hons)

University of Portsmouth

Overview Bring your creative and original ideas to life on this multi-award-winning Fashion and Textile Design degree 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.

With innovative research methods, you’ll be able to deliver authentic, imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of what fashion and textile design means now and in the future.

What you'll experience On this Fashion and Textile degree course, you’ll:

• Immerse yourself in the latest trends, cultures, techniques and technologies in the fashion and textile industry

• Have the opportunity to apply your creative skills to designing sustainable fashion

• Learn design methods including drawing techniques, pattern-cutting, fashion illustration, silkscreen and digital printing, embroidery and constructed textiles

• Use the professional software you’ll use in your career to bring your digital designs to life, including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Lectra Kaledo

• Make use of our modern facilities and equipment, which include industrial sewing machines, laser cutting equipment, and Lectra Modaris, for digital pattern making with 3D prototyping

• Build your professional network with international guest lecturers fashion industry professionals, like Julian Roberts, Niccolo Casas and Shingo Sato

You can also:

• Set up your own label or fashion and textile company as part of your studies

• Exhibit your work at the University’s annual graduate shows and Graduate Fashion Week showcases in London

Careers and opportunities Our collaborative and project-orientated course will give you the skills to become highly employable. 100% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of graduating – across industry, in public sector, or through starting their own companies.

You'll also get support from our Careers and Employability service for up to 5 years after you graduate.

You could work in areas such as:

• fashion, textile or accessories design

• trend prediction

• buying

• visual merchandising

• teaching or lecturing

• journalism or writing

Previous students have gone on to work for some of the biggest names in fashion, such as:

• Ralph Lauren

• Hugo Boss

• Matthew Williamson

Others have secured careers working within major retailers including River Island, Fat Face, and Marks and Spencer.

Previous students on this course have also set up their own 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 also works as a freelance textile designer and visiting lecturer

After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years from our Careers and Employability service as you advance in your career.