Fashion Textiles and Design Honours

Overview

Why study BA Fashion Textiles and Design Honours at Middlesex University?

This Fashion Textiles and Design Honours degree at the Middlesex University has been designed with your future in mind. Your learning will be split equally between fashion and textile design and production so that you’ll 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.

The future of the fashion and textiles industries is valued here, as well as your place within it. That’s why you will be taught with a focus on sustainability and socially responsible design, encouraging you to be the change-maker of the future. You’ll 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

• You will explore the design and realisation of innovative textiles for fashion through print, knit, weave and embellishment, supported in each discipline by an expert tutor
• You will learn practical skills using our state-of-the-art facilities in The Grove
• You will take part in a six-week work experience placement in your second year during London Fashion Week, where you will be based full-time with the designer or practitioner of your choice
• At the end of your degree you will exhibit your work at the Degree Show, a great opportunity to show off your talents to creative industry employers

Career Opportunities

• Possible careers routes include fashion-textiles studio designer (for example textile print, knit or embellishment) and working in a variety of fashion contexts, including designing, making and collaborations with other designers. Other careers could include the performing arts - especially dance and theatre styling and branding.
• Middlesex has strong links with art and design employers. Industry partners give visiting lectures, and art and design agencies, organisations and other employers attend our final year degree show each year.