Fashion Design and Technology

Fashion design and technology is a degree that takes seriously both the creative and the technical dimensions of the fashion industry. Fashion design is concerned with the vision, aesthetics, and cultural intelligence that produce clothing and accessories that are desirable, meaningful, and appropriate to their context. Fashion technology addresses the production side, encompassing pattern cutting, garment construction, materials science, manufacturing processes, and the digital tools that are increasingly central to how fashion is designed, sampled, and produced at scale.

Bringing them together produces graduates who understand the full journey from idea to finished product.

At Manchester Metropolitan University, this three-year full-time programme integrates creative fashion design with advanced manufacturing skills and new digital technologies. You will develop your creative practice and design sensibility alongside a rigorous understanding of how garments are constructed and how production decisions affect both quality and sustainability. The programme engages with digital design tools, 3D sampling, and the evolving technological landscape of fashion production.

A sandwich year with placement gives you professional work experience in the fashion industry during your degree, which is a significant advantage in a competitive sector where industry experience and professional networks matter as much as academic qualification.

Graduates work as fashion designers, pattern cutters, garment technologists, product developers, and buying and merchandising professionals within fashion brands, manufacturing companies, and retail organisations. The combination of design and technology gives you a broader range of career options than a purely design-focused degree, including roles on the production and technical side of the industry where skilled graduates are consistently in demand. Further study at postgraduate level in fashion design, sustainable fashion, or fashion management is also an option for those who wish to specialise further.