MA Fashion and Textiles

Course description

You will study at our Markeaton Street site which has both traditional and industrial equipment - we're the only UK university to own two Jacquard looms. Realise your creative ambitions using advanced new technology in our fashion and textiles studios and other specialised workshops. You'll also benefit from our excellent links with industry in the fashion and textiles sectors.

You will be surrounded by like-minded creative individuals from our Art and Design subjects and have opportunities to gain appropriate industrial experience working on high level, multidisciplinary projects.

Careers

You could become an entrepreneurial designer, and start up your own business, using the skills you acquired on the course to take your products to market. We offer further support for emerging businesses, through our Creative Industries business incubation unit - Banks Mill. You could also go on to find employment within any number of global companies. Among the alumni from our fashion and textiles programmes, graduates have gone on to work for Polo Ralph Lauren in New York, Viewpoint Magazine, Franklin Till and Jaeger. You may also wish to continue on to further study through one of our MPhil / PhD programmes.