Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles

This highly respected degree offers you full creative control over the design and creation of fabrics, garments and products for fashion or interiors. You will develop your creative potential through developing technical and design skills, including innovative digital knit processes that are in high demand in the fashion and textile industry

Key features

• Explore contemporary fashion and textile design, product development, and styling. Use of specialist state-of-the art digital equipment alongside traditional hand techniques.

• Choose to take a year-long work placement, in the UK or abroad, and gain a certificate or diploma in professional / international practice, this opportunity often leads to offers of employment after graduation.

• Get involved in competitions and live projects with industry with companies such as Next, John Smedley, Boden, Finisterre and The Society of Dyers and Colourists.

• Visit international trade fairs and exhibitions, such as Pitti Filati in Florence.

• Opportunity to apply for a European or international exchange to one of our partner institutions, such as Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Amsterdam Fashion Institute, and more.

• Have the opportunity to showcase your work at Graduate Fashion Week and New Designers in London and through collaborations with organisations such as SPINEXPO and Pitti Filatti.

• Educational grants and sponsorship opportunities available through our industry partners.

• NTU are ranked 16th in the UK for Fashion and Textiles. (The Guardian University Guide 2021).

• 100% of BA (Hons) Fashion Knitwear Design & Knitted Textiles SW students would recommend studying at NTU to others. (National Student Survey 2020)

Assessment

Assessment is predominantly through coursework. You will receive feedback throughout each module and will be awarded a grade for your work.

Employability

Graduates go into fields such as design, product development, styling and promotion and global sourcing. Recent graduate destinations include: Abercrombie & Fitch, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Hugo Boss, Sun Hing Ltd, John Smedley, Nike and Sophie Steller.

Your space to create at NTU

We’re committed to helping you explore, expand and refine your craft, as you discover new creative horizons with some truly great tools, equipment and workspaces. Visit our facilities hub at www.ntu.ac.uk/artfacilities to find out more.

Our students’ work – ‘We Are Creatives’

Explore our online showcase ‘We Are Creatives’ - celebrating the work of the School of Art & Design students. You will find a sneak peak of some of our students’ work and gain a real insight into what it’s like to be part of the NTU creative community at * wearecreativesntu.art**

[Year One]

• Curiosity: Creative Exploration and Research (40 credit points, full year)
• Curiosity: Creative Development and Application for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (80 credit points, full year)

[Year Two]

• Directions: Industry and Context for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (40 credit points, first half of the year)
• Directions: Innovation and Transition for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (40 credit points, second half of the year)
• Co Lab: Research, Exploration and Risk-Taking (20 credit points, second half of the year)
• Optional Module (20 credit points, first half of the year). Choose from:
Material Stories
Responding to the Visual World
Model Making: Object and Narrative
3D Materials and Exploration
Ethical Design
Buying, Merchandising and Product Fundamentals
Trend Forecasting
Publishing: Experimental Formats

[Year Three]

• Optional Work Placement Year

[Final year]

• Resolutions: Culture and Context (20 credit points, first half of the year / 40 credit points, full year)
• Resolutions: Practice and Context for Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles (100 / 80 credit points, full year)