Fashion & Textiles Institute
Embrace your originality in the Fashion & Textiles Institute, where you’ll gain a distinctive creative education shaped by state-of-the-art facilities, a wide range of industry expertise and exceptional support.
Housed in vibrant open-plan studios where inspiration and collaborative opportunities exist around every corner, you’ll learn to master emerging technologies alongside long-established processes and techniques. Taking ownership of the direction of your practice, you will have the chance to work on industry-aligned projects with companies like the Circular Textiles Foundation, Sanderson and Seasalt – keeping your future career firmly in sight.
Out on Cornwall's southwest peninsula, our surroundings promote wellbeing, but also boldness, curiosity and entrepreneurship. You’ll benefit from this beautiful and stimulating environment while honing your unique skillset in preparation for an exciting future in the rapidly evolving creative industries.
Our Fashion and Textile courses
Costume Design for Film & Television BA(Hons)
On this dynamic course, you’ll cultivate the practical, creative and theoretical skills needed to ...
Fashion Design BA(Hons)
Turn heads and change minds as you steer the fashion industry toward a more sustainable future. Work...
Fashion Marketing BA(Hons)
Blend your flair for communication and eye for fashion into a successful career as a fashion markete...
Fashion Photography BA(Hons)
Develop your unique artistic voice and springboard into the industry as an innovative fashion photog...
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...
Sustainable Fashion MA (Online)
Become a conscious changemaker in the 21st century fashion industry. Position yourself as a catalyst...
Textile Design BA(Hons)
On our textile design degree, you’ll be part of a vibrant, supportive community of multidisciplina...
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.
Virtual tour
Discover where you’ll spend your time as a student with our 360° tour, showcasing our facilities, accommodation, town and scenery.
"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
Discover stories from our community
Costume Design student gains experience working behind the scenes as theatre wardrobe assistant
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Fashion Photography student on translating personal meaning into imagery
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Textile Design graduands gain industry praise at leading creative talent showcase New Designers
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From personal vision to professional Fashion Design | Degree Show Stories
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Fashion Design student sees her work featured in Flanelle Magazine
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The future of Costume Design starts here | Degree Show Stories
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Textile Design alumna on her exciting global career with Edinburgh Weavers
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Archives in Action: Heritage, culture and the power of memory through fashion
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Falmouth fashion students offer prom styling advice for local school pupils
11 May 2026
Student ambassadors from Falmouth’s Fashion & Textiles Institute recently offered advice, support ...
Textile Design students shortlisted for this year’s Batsford Prize
01 May 2026
Three BA(Hons) Textile Design students have been shortlisted for the Applied Art and Textiles catego...
Falmouth Textile Design students featured in New Designers preview
29 April 2026
Two final year BA(Hons) Textile Design students have been featured in a sustainability preview by Ne...
Falmouth textile designer reaches finals of H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award
07 April 2026
BA(Hons) Textile Design graduate and technician Meredith Wood has reached the finals of the H&M Foun...
Dress historian and fashion lecturer releases new book with Penguin
02 April 2026
Behind the pages of Dr Kate Strasdin’s latest non-fiction, Dressing the Queen: Two Hundred Years o...
From studying Textile Design to crafting hats for London Fashion Week and the West End
10 March 2026
After being drawn to Falmouth because of the vibrant studio environment, the passion and care lectur...
Fashion Photography alumna awarded grant by PhotoVogue
09 December 2025
2024 BA(Hons) Fashion Photography alumna Narantsetseg Khuyagaahas been awarded the Rising Voice Gran...
Credit: Vinted
Fashion graduate wins Vinted RE/style competition by creating catwalk looks from second-hand garments
25 November 2025
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MasterChef UK winner visits fashion students to share insight on creative direction
18 November 2025
Falmouth’s Fashion & Textiles Institute recently welcomed Steven Wallis, the culinary innovator an...
Fashion marketing students get brand-building masterclass from Naked Generation
10 November 2025
Creative businesswoman Lara Merrill founded slow fashion brand Naked Generation back in 2018, and wh...
Falmouth University takes custodianship of prestigious historic clothing collection
03 November 2025
Computer games, high-definition digital archiving and immersive visitor experiences are just some of...