Fashion Design with Textiles Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Fashion Design with Textiles at Huddersfield combines creativity, technical skill, and industry understanding to prepare you for a career within contemporary fashion and textile design. The course places strong emphasis on fashion design practice, while allowing you to specialise in textiles, giving you the freedom to develop a distinctive creative approach across garments, materials, and surface design.

Throughout the course, you will develop your skills as a fashion designer through hands-on, studio-based learning. You will explore garment design for womenswear, menswear, or gender-neutral collections, working through the full design process from research and concept development to pattern cutting, garment construction, and final presentation. Alongside garment design, you will create your own textiles through surface decoration, fabric manipulation, embroidery embellishment and textile printing. This allows you to experiment with materials and techniques while developing a strong understanding of how textiles enhance and inform fashion design.

Why Study Fashion Design with Textiles BA(Hons) at University of Huddersfield?

The course encourages you to develop your own design identity and creative direction, producing a professional portfolio that showcases both fashion and textile skills. You will also explore issues such as sustainability and ethical practice, helping you understand the role of responsible design within the modern fashion industry.

Teaching is delivered by experienced staff, supported by specialist technicians, in our state-of-the-art Barbara Hepworth Building. You will have access to professional fashion studios, pattern cutting workshops, CAD facilities, and textile printing and construction equipment, giving you the space and support needed to experiment and realise your ideas to a professional standard.

Live projects, competitions, and optional placements provide valuable industry experience and opportunities to build professional networks. By the end of the course, you will graduate with strong technical skills, industry awareness, and a creative portfolio, ready for a career in fashion design, textiles, or related creative industries.

Professional Bodies

This course is accredited by the Textile Institute, a worldwide organisation for textiles, clothing and footwear. This is reviewed every five years and is valid until 2028. The accreditation recognises the quality and excellence of the course’s provision, and that it meets the educational standards required by the relevant specialisations within the Textiles industry. Students who graduate from this course can apply for the professional qualification, Associateship and Chartered Membership of the Textile Institute, after a shorter period of work experience than is usually required, or in some cases directly on graduation.

Why Huddersfield?

Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.