14 Textile Design Master's Degree Programs

The Master in Sustainable Fashion Design shapes students into fashion designers with a strong awareness of ethical and sustainable fashion. The curriculum promotes an in-depth understanding of creative and design aspects combined with a thorough technical knowledge of production and industrialisation, ensuring an ethical procedure at every stage.

In the MFA Textile Design program, courses hone students’ knowledge of industry standards, combining design excellence with the mastery of the latest digital tools, and furthering their knowledge of textile printing techniques and fabric manipulation. Their thesis project culminates in the production of a portfolio of textile design that exhibits their original voice and individual aesthetic. Some students may collaborate with fashion or knitwear majors for the graduate show in New York during Fashion Week.

Our programme in Textile Design can take you further than you imagined. The Swedish School of Textiles, specialising in textile design, provides a forward-looking environment for rethinking and creating textiles within its expanded field, including Textile Craft, New Materiality, Innovation, and Digital Specialisms. It delves deep into the most relevant subjects and skills required for a career in the textile industry and related industries.

Masters Program in Textile Design has recently highlighted the need for new professional figures whose skills and knowledge can connect and create a dialogue between the creative and strategic functions and the technical and production roles. The aim of the Master's Program in Textile Design - Innovation - Sustainability is to train professionals with such characteristics. The program offers cultural, technological, strategic, and design knowledge in the textile sector and provides collaborations with experts and companies of the world-renowned textile district of Como.

In Textile Design we educate design collaborators who are well-grounded to work in teams that reach beyond the discipline’s own boundaries, for example with industry in general, architects, the fashion industry and others who work with visual narratives.

Specialising in Textile Interaction Design involves exploring and developing textiles that interact with and adapt to their surroundings as well as to bodies, actions, humans, and other species. This specialisation delves into questions and issues related to textile interaction from a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, ethical, technical, and cultural considerations.

This programme will give you an overview of the fundamentals of textiles and fashion to build upon your existing degree in topics like business administration, industrial economy, textile engineering, textile design, and fashion design. This will provide interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives on the challenges related to working towards sustainable textiles and fashion. The main emphasis on sustainability is also an important area of research throughout the Swedish School of Textiles.

At the Swedish School of Textiles, fashion design is understood in its broadest sense as an activity that explores, expresses, and shapes individuals, communities, bodies, and human-cultural interactions. In the Master's programme specialising in Fashion Design, questions and issues related to expressions centered around the human body are explored and developed from a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, technical, economic, and political considerations, all within a cultural context.

Máster Universitario Erasmus Mundus en Ciencia en Ingeniería Textil In the last 20 years, both academia and the textile industry have become more global than ever and creativity, user-centered product design and application, multicultural understanding , entrepreneurial behavior and multi-perspective thinking are vital to being an innovation leader.

Clothes and body-related artefacts can be active, responsive, protective, or supportive in human actions and activities. In this way, clothes can play a central role in various types of body-based activities, human performances, and interactions with the environment. Specialising in Performance Wear at the Swedish School of Textiles involves exploring and developing apparel that can perform – act and interact – in relation to various human activities and performances in outdoor, sports, work, or artistic contexts, considering a wide range of perspectives, including environmental, ethical, technical, and cultural factors.

The content of study programme Fashion Innovation Technology integrates knowledge of fashion product design, development and production innovations. You will deepen your knowledge of the fashion product circular design and sustainable development, virtual technology and design, innovative materials and advanced production technologies. You will be able to choose a block of alternative subjects in material or marketing innovations. After completing studies, you will have the latest technological knowledge and be able to develop fashion product innovations (know-how). You will be an expert in the field and the leader of a team that creates in-demand products, you will be ready for constantly changing and uncertain environment of fashion industry.

The Master in Fabrics Innovation Design, is aimed at graduates and or professionals wishing to acquire a professional education focused on the close relationship between culture, creativity and innovation, aimed at research and development of the fabric, one of the most demanding fields. Creative exploration in the field of textiles and materials for fashion productions requires an articulated mix of knowledge and skills accompanied by a deep cultural background,

In the contemporary landscape, where style and clothing play a paramount role in defining individuality and serve as a powerful medium for driving societal transformation, the 2-year Master of Arts in Fashion: Design, Art & Technology introduces an innovative approach to creativity and the fashion industry.

There are 480 students currently attending classes at faculty, where 320 students are in the full-time education and 160 in part-time education. Over 75% of the students get state funding scholarship. Part-time education studies require tuition fee contracts.