Fashion & Textiles Courses

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Study in the Fashion & Textiles Institute at Falmouth and join the next generation of creative image-makers, designers and thinkers.

On these courses you’ll gain the hands-on experience and future-focused skills you’ll need to succeed in the rapidly evolving global fashion and creative industries. Supported by an expert team and with access to outstanding facilities and top industry connections, you’ll be encouraged to take risks and push boundaries as you develop creative consciousness – becoming curious, responsible and aware.

Our Fashion courses

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Kiera Sylvester Fashion Marketing

Fashion Marketing BA(Hons)

Blend your flair for communication and eye for fashion into a successful career as a fashion markete...

Fashion Marketing BA(Hons)
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Fashion Design BA(Hons)

Turn heads and change minds as you steer the fashion industry toward a more sustainable future. Work...

Fashion Design BA(Hons)
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Costume Design for Film and Television 2024

Costume Design for Film & Television BA(Hons)

On this dynamic course, you’ll cultivate the practical, creative and theoretical skills needed to ...

Costume Design for Film & Television BA(Hons)
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Alice Marple Horvat - Fashion Photography

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 Photography BA(Hons)
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Fashion styling and art direction

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...

Fashion Styling & Art Direction BA(Hons)
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Textile studio

Textile Design BA(Hons)

On our textile design degree, you’ll be part of a vibrant, supportive community of multidisciplina...

Textile Design BA(Hons)
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Illustration students

Integrated Foundation Year BA/BSc(Hons)

Explore your creativity and expand your professional skills by entering the creative industries on a...

Integrated Foundation Year BA/BSc(Hons)
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What can you do with a Fashion degree?

A degree in Fashion offers you the chance to build a portfolio and gain valuable work experience so you’re ready to enter the exciting and fast-paced fashion industry when you graduate. 

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Explore our fashion facilities

Our Fashion courses are served by industry-standard equipment and facilities, allowing you to transform creative concepts into commercial realities. As well as textiles studios and tools – including hand looms, printmaking studio and digital fabric printers – you'll also have access to one of the UK's leading student photography studios with professional equipment to loan.

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Textile Design Student Beth Somerville's winning  New Designers 2023
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Doing it for real


As a student at the Fashion & Textiles Institute, you’ll work with staff offering extensive expertise in fashion and textile design, innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and marketing. Find out how one graduate brought all of their skills together to become the overall winner of New Designers 2023.

 

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Discover what our Fashion students do

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From CHANEL to Queen Camilla: a catch-up with Textile Design graduate Beth Somerville

10 December 2024

2023 was a big year for Textile Design BA (Hons) graduate Beth Somerville. From being named overall ...

From CHANEL to Queen Camilla: a catch-up with Textile Design graduate Beth Somerville
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The group at the residency. Credit: Future Island-Island

Sustainable Fashion students win Regenerative Rathlin Open Design Competition

03 December 2024

Two students on Falmouth’s online master’s in Sustainable Fashion have recently attended a desig...

Sustainable Fashion students win Regenerative Rathlin Open Design Competition
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Georgia Featherstone

Graduate Spotlight: 3D and Digital Product Design Manager Georgia Featherstone

13 November 2024

Since graduating from Fashion Design BA(Hons) in 2021, Georgia Featherstone has made an impressive r...

Graduate Spotlight: 3D and Digital Product Design Manager Georgia Featherstone
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Credit: Matt Jessop

Fashion & Textiles Institute host inaugural Fashion Redesign Forum

26 September 2024

A team of senior lecturers, students and senior technicians from Falmouth’s Fashion & Textiles Ins...

Fashion & Textiles Institute host inaugural Fashion Redesign Forum
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Erin Donohoe (2024), Ai generated image of a Vogue magazine that can be planted in soil and grow and ‘Vogue Garden.’

Meet Erin Donohoe, the Sustainable Fashion student reimagining fashion magazines

08 August 2024

Sustainable Fashion MA (Online) student Erin Donohoe has created a powerful reimagining of the fashi...

Meet Erin Donohoe, the Sustainable Fashion student reimagining fashion magazines
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Charlie Clarke

From Sustainable Product Design student to inspiring sustainability leader

22 July 2024

Charlie Clarke is a rising star in the world of sustainability. Since graduating from Falmouth’s S...

From Sustainable Product Design student to inspiring sustainability leader
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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...

New Designer awards fruitful for five students
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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...

Sustainable Fashion MA student Caroline Garland attends the Global Fashion Summit for The Independent
Charlotte Wells
Charlotte Wells

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...

Textiles graduand secures job at historic silk mill
SBS Awards
SBS Awards

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...

Textile Design BA graduate and Nettle Revolution founder wins the Theo Paphitis, Small Business Sunday Awards
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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...

5 Minutes with: Anti-Fashion Photography Disruptor, Donald Christie
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Torgeir Rorvik

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...

How Falmouth’s future-focussed approach is inspiring graduate fashion photographer Torgeir Rørvik
Alexa Rayner

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...

Falmouth student designs latest edition of Petra Collins’ ‘OMG I’m Being Killed’
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Beth Somerville

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 ...

Putting the tech into textiles: Meet Falmouth graduate Beth Somerville
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Meet our sustainable fashion community

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 ...

Meet our Sustainable Fashion online community
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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 ...

Bal maidens, fishwives and carnival queens: meet Fran Rowse’s ‘Cornish Maids’
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Top 5 sustainable fashion publications and podcasts

09 January 2024

With increasing evidence suggesting the fashion industry plays a significant role in global heating,...

Top 5 sustainable fashion publications and podcasts
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Inside our natural dye garden and labs

22 December 2023

Explore our natural dye garden and dye labs with senior teaching technician Alice Selwood.

Inside our natural dye garden and labs
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Revolutionising fashion education: Meet Sustainable Fashion student Mitchell Vassie

27 November 2023

Revolutionising fashion education: Meet Sustainable Fashion student Mitchell Vassie
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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...

Students deliver fashion show in collaboration with WRAP for Anthropy 2023

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Any questions? 

If you have any questions about our Fashion courses, get in touch with our Future Studies Team. 

E: futurestudies@falmouth.ac.uk 

T: +44 (0)1326 254350