Fashion & Textiles Institute

Join the Fashion & Textiles Institute and have the chance 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.

Charlotte Sharples Fashion Design work

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

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Chris Copeland work

Textile Design BA(Hons)

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

Textile Design BA(Hons)
Sustainable Fashion student
Sustainable Fashion

Sustainable Fashion MA (Online)

Become a conscious changemaker in the 21st century fashion industry. Develop a radical and circular ...

Sustainable Fashion MA (Online)
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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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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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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)

"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 

Fashion & Textiles facilities

Transform concepts into commercial realities with our professional equipment and facilities. From traditional hand looms to digital fabric printers and ultrasonic welders, our fashion and textile studios cater for both solo and group working.

Explore Fashion & Textiles facilities
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Fashion & Textiles Institute facilities

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...

Unseen: examining underwear dress techniques and practices around the Textiles and Dress Collection’s Men’s Bodywear Collection and/or Ivy Leaf Corsetry Collection
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Penryn Campus Pano 2021

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...

Textiles and Sustainable New Technology as a form of protection and shelter in natural disaster and conflict settings: A Design Response
BA(Hons) Textile Design Katie Brigginshaw
Katie Brigginshaw, BA(Hons) Textile Design, woven fabrics.

African Portrait Photography Archives

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of resea...

African Portrait Photography Archives

News

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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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Sustainable fashion laptop and work

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
Sustainable Fashion student Mitchell Vassie teaching
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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
Models during fashion show in collaboration with WRAP for Anthropy 2023
WRAP x FTI

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
Textile designs by Gabs Smith
Gabs Smith - 'Gluttony' Print

Falmouth graduate shortlisted at Global Design Graduate Show x Gucci

06 October 2023

See the shortlisted work and cast your vote!

Falmouth graduate shortlisted at Global Design Graduate Show x Gucci
Sustainable Fashion student Georgia Wyatt-Lovell giving a presentation
Georgia Wyatt-Lovell

“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...

“A light at the end of the tunnel”: why I chose to study Falmouth’s online Sustainable Fashion master’s
Textile Design Student Beth Somerville's stand at New Designers 2023
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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....

Graduating Textile Design student announced as overall winner of New Designers 2023
Collage corset created by Textile Design student Zahra Jelassi
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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.

Final year Textile Design student finds inspiration in unlikely places
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Falmouth Showcase 2023: A celebration of our graduating talent

02 June 2023

Congratulations to our class of 2023!

Falmouth Showcase 2023: A celebration of our graduating talent
Portrait of Britain Winner and Falmouth Fashion Photography graduate Logan Davies
Logan Davies

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...

In conversation with Portrait of Britain winner and Fashion Photography graduate Logan Davies
Textile Design student work
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Meet our third-year Textile Design students

29 March 2023

Discover the work and inspirations of some of our third year textile design students.

Meet our third-year Textile Design students
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Sustainable Fashion student

The Our Effect Podcast | Reconnecting fashion with nature

08 February 2023

Sustainable fashion academic Tom Crisp chairs a discussion on the importance of reconnecting fashion...

The Our Effect Podcast | Reconnecting fashion with nature
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Textile Design graduate launches collection with Oasis

06 January 2023

Charlie Taylor tells us about her exclusive collection with fashion brand, Oasis.

Textile Design graduate launches collection with Oasis
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Alice Moore Hook, Line and Ginger

Alice Moore on starting her own handwoven textile business

14 December 2022

Textile Design graduate starts her own handwoven textile business.

Alice Moore on starting her own handwoven textile business
A headshot of Sustainable Fashion lecturer Sabine Lettmann
Sabine Lettmann

An interview with Sabine Lettmann: module leader on MA Sustainable Fashion (Online)

25 November 2022

Sabine Lettman is a fashion designer, consultant and researcher who will lead two modules on Falmout...

An interview with Sabine Lettmann: module leader on MA Sustainable Fashion (Online)
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Orda

Orda, Saidis Orda

Falmouth graduates recognised by Arts Thread Global Design Graduate Show 2022 

25 October 2022

Meet the Fashion & Textiles Institute graduates shortlisted for the Global Design Graduate Show 2022...

Falmouth graduates recognised by Arts Thread Global Design Graduate Show 2022 
Photo of Fashion Design graduate Finlay Vincent facing away from the camera wearing black hoody with the hood up.
Finlay Vincent

Fashion graduate announced as Vanguard Education Fund winner

29 September 2022

Fashion Design graduate Finlay Vincent has been awarded funding through NET-A-PORTER's Vanguard Educ...

Fashion graduate announced as Vanguard Education Fund winner
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Lecturer contributes to V&A Africa Fashion exhibition

18 August 2022

Senior Lecturer in Textile Design, Dr Simon Clarke, has seen his work featured in a landmark Africa ...

Lecturer contributes to V&A Africa Fashion exhibition