Fashion and Textiles

Glasgow Clyde College offers you a range of full-time and part-time fashion and textiles courses, from NC to HND and associate Degree level.  We are the only Scottish institution to deliver HND Fashion Design and HND Fashion Technology. 

Jobs in Fashion and Textiles

Graduates of the School of Fashion and Textiles at Glasgow Clyde College have gone on to have successful careers in the fashion and textiles industry.

Hear from Fashion Textiles Alumni Ashleigh Douglas, Future Textiles Manager. 

The department has impressive alumni. For over 30 years, our dedicated and experienced staff have helped shape the careers of many leading fashion talents including Tammy Kane (Business partner Christopher Kane), Kyle Spires (Calvin Klein), Rachel Eustace (Designer H&M), Marianne Callaghan (Designer Top Man), Charlotte Helyar (Design Director Coach), Katie Roberts Wood (own label available at Dover Street Market), Katie Fairfull (Weave Designer for Transcal) and Shivani Lal (fashion editor Luxor Magazine) to name a few. 

Industry and employer links

You'll benefit from the School of Fashion and Textiles at Glasgow Clyde College's strong links with industry. Our students regularly work on innovative and challenging live projects. Recent collaborations include Bute Fabrics, Voyage Decoration, Beggs of Scotland, Forty Clothing, Turnberry Rugs, Pollok House, Kestin Hare and Oxfam.

The School also works closely with partners to deliver in-house textile training, including Modern Apprenticeships as well as leading the Future Textiles programme delivered at Dumfries House.

The winner of our recent live design competition shares her story.

Further study opportunities

You'll have the chance to progress on to universities and art schools across the country, including Glasgow School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Duncan of Jordanston College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.

We also send students throughout the UK to De Montfort, University of the Arts London, University of Brighton, Manchester Metropolitan, Colchester Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, Central St Martins, Ulster, Northumbria, Manchester Metropolitan University, Loughborough University, Nottingham Trent University, Buckingham Chilterns, Cumbria, London College of Fashion, UAL Wimbledon, Middlesex, Kingston and Ravensbourne.  

Hear from student Connor who is now at Strathclyde University.

Associate Programme

We work closely with Heriot-Watt University to deliver Associate places for students in Textiles, Fashion Design, Fashion Communications and Fashion Technology.

We are now in our fifth year of this Associate partnership and we have seen the numbers grow due to the success and hard work of the partner institutes and the students that have been part of the programme.

Hear from BSc Fashion Technology alumni Hayley McDonald. 

Each programme of study is directly linked to a year 3 pathway at Heriot-Watt University. You will be dual enrolled at both institutes and will be based at the Cardonald Campus of Glasgow Clyde College for the first two years of your course and will follow an HND programme focusing on your chosen discipline. At the end of year 2, on successful completion of your course, you will transfer to Heriot-Watt University, Scottish Borders Campus, to complete years 3 and 4 of your Hons degree, where you will continue to study in your chosen discipline.

We now have Associate places within the following programmes of study.

• BA (Hons) Design for Textiles (Specialising in Weave and Print) (joint delivery with Heriot-Watt University)
• HND Textiles at Glasgow Clyde College

• BSc (Hons) Fashion Technology (joint delivery with Heriot-Watt University)
• HND Fashion Technology and Manufacture with Design at Glasgow Clyde College

• BA (Hons) Fashion Design (joint delivery with Heriot-Watt University)
• HND Fashion Design and Manufacture at Glasgow Clyde College
• BA (Hons) Fashion Communications (joint delivery with Heriot-Watt University)
• HND Fashion Design and Manufacture at Glasgow Clyde College

Modern facilities

You'll study in the College’s custom-built studios at the Cardonald campus, with the very latest industry-standard equipment.

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