Overview
Bring your creative ideas to life using industry-level facilities on our multi-award-winning BA (Hons) Fashion Design degree course.
You’ll grow into a confident, knowledgeable fashion professional via our teaching approach—combining fashion and textile design and encouraging innovation, self-awareness, and critical thinking. Your unique strengths are recognised and valued in all you do on this course. You'll develop communication, leadership, and collaboration skills through creative exchange and enterprise projects, and build a deep knowledge of traditional and digital making skills using industry-leading CLO3D. Vital sustainable and ethical design principles and innovative research methods underpin your learning and creativity.
At Portsmouth, 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.
Course highlights
- Master traditional and modern fashion design methods, including drawing techniques, pattern-cutting using CLO3D, animation, fashion illustration, silkscreen, embroidery, and constructed textiles—as well as growing your own biomaterials
- 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 own 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
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
