Fashion & Textiles Institute
At the Fashion & Textiles Institute you'll have the opportunity to work on live, industry-sponsored projects with companies like Adidas, Ryan Roche (New York), Liberty Art Fabrics and Nowness. Develop your own creative practice, utilising state-of-the-art technologies alongside long-established traditional techniques and processes.
You’ll work with staff offering extensive expertise in fashion and textile design, innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and marketing. Housed in a modern open plan building replicating working industry life, our Fashion and Textile courses collaborate across disciplines, and pioneer a future-driven design community.
Our Fashion and Textile courses
Textile Design BA(Hons)
On our textile design degree, you’ll be part of a vibrant, supportive community of multidisciplina...
Sustainable Fashion MA (Online)
Become a conscious changemaker in the 21st century fashion industry. Develop a radical and circular ...
Fashion Styling & Art Direction BA(Hons)
Influence the shape of fashion as you take on the world of fashion styling. On this future-focused c...
Work by Alice Marple Horvat
Fashion Photography BA(Hons)
Develop your unique artistic voice and springboard into the industry as an innovative fashion photog...
Fashion Marketing BA(Hons)
Blend your flair for communication and eye for fashion into a successful career as a fashion markete...
Fashion Design BA(Hons)
Turn heads and change minds as you steer the fashion industry toward a more sustainable future. Work...
Costume Design for Film & Television BA(Hons)
On this dynamic course, you’ll cultivate the practical, creative and theoretical skills needed to ...
Explore our fashion & textiles facilities
Centred around studio spaces on the Penryn Campus that cater for solo and group working, our Fashion & Textiles Institute includes a printmaking studio, digital fabric printers, professional clothes fitting stands, ultrasonic welders, sampling facilities, hand looms, a digital controlled Jacquard loom, embroidery machines and industrial overlockers.
"As a former Falmouth student myself, I know first-hand that the course develops core skills such as pattern cutting and construction, as well as more technical and unique abilities. These are all skills which are successfully displayed by our Falmouth interns. Above all, their positive attitude and passion sets them apart and leads them to make the most of every opportunity."
Didar Ekmekci
BA(Hons) Fashion Design graduate and Head Studio Assistant, Markus Lupfer
Doctoral Project Briefs
The Fashion & Textiles Institute invites MPhil and PhD proposals. Find out more.
Unseen: examining underwear dress techniques and practices around the Textiles and Dress Collection’s Men’s Bodywear Collection and/or Ivy Leaf Corsetry Collection
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
Textiles and Sustainable New Technology as a form of protection and shelter in natural disaster and conflict settings: A Design Response
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
African Portrait Photography Archives
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...
Discover stories from our community
New Designer awards fruitful for five students
12 July 2024
The prestigious annual New Designers awards are judged by key industry leaders to find the rising s...
Sustainable Fashion MA student Caroline Garland attends the Global Fashion Summit for The Independent
25 June 2024
Caroline Garland is a writer and aspiring fashion journalist. As a student on Falmouth’s online ma...
Textiles graduand secures job at historic silk mill
24 June 2024
Textile Design BA graduand Charlotte Wells will become a Mill Assistant at Whitchurch Silk Mill - th...
Textile Design BA graduate and Nettle Revolution founder wins the Theo Paphitis, Small Business Sunday Awards
22 May 2024
In an inspiring event earlier this year, Jane Gray, Founder and Coach of health and wellbeing compan...
5 Minutes with: Anti-Fashion Photography Disruptor, Donald Christie
03 May 2024
Donald Christie’s iconic photography style was a seminal part of the ‘anti-fashion’ 1990s yout...
How Falmouth’s future-focussed approach is inspiring graduate fashion photographer Torgeir Rørvik
24 April 2024
A top award winner in 2022 at Graduate Fashion Week, the world’s largest showcase of BA fashion ta...
Falmouth student designs latest edition of Petra Collins’ ‘OMG I’m Being Killed’
17 April 2024
Third-year Fashion Photography BA(Hons) student Alexa Rayner has designed the latest edition of Petr...
Putting the tech into textiles: Meet Falmouth graduate Beth Somerville
03 April 2024
From being named overall winner of New Designers 2023 to being selected for the Chanel and King’s ...
Meet our Sustainable Fashion online community
12 February 2024
Since its launch in 2022, Falmouth's Sustainable Fashion MA (Online) community has been going from ...
Bal maidens, fishwives and carnival queens: meet Fran Rowse’s ‘Cornish Maids’
12 February 2024
Fran Rowse's photography project 'Cornish Maids' is a collection of portraits of Cornwall’s young ...
Top 5 sustainable fashion publications and podcasts
09 January 2024
With increasing evidence suggesting the fashion industry plays a significant role in global heating,...
Inside our natural dye garden and labs
22 December 2023
Explore our natural dye garden and dye labs with senior teaching technician Alice Selwood.
Revolutionising fashion education: Meet Sustainable Fashion student Mitchell Vassie
27 November 2023
Students deliver fashion show in collaboration with WRAP for Anthropy 2023
03 November 2023
Fashion students have collaborated with WRAP to produce a sustainability focused fashion show for An...
Falmouth graduate shortlisted at Global Design Graduate Show x Gucci
06 October 2023
See the shortlisted work and cast your vote!
“A light at the end of the tunnel”: why I chose to study Falmouth’s online Sustainable Fashion master’s
28 September 2023
Georgia Wyatt-Lovell is a creative practitioner, sustainability consultant and founder of two sustai...
Graduating Textile Design student announced as overall winner of New Designers 2023
05 July 2023
Graduating student Beth Somerville and Falmouth University take home awards from New Designers 2023....
Final year Textile Design student finds inspiration in unlikely places
27 June 2023
Explore the work of graduating Textile Design BA(Hons) student Zahra Jelassi.
Falmouth Showcase 2023: A celebration of our graduating talent
02 June 2023
Congratulations to our class of 2023!
In conversation with Portrait of Britain winner and Fashion Photography graduate Logan Davies
05 May 2023
Logan Davies shares their experience at Falmouth and the importance of queer representation in photo...