Fashion Product Innovation

At The University of Manchester we offer four BSc courses in Fashion Business and Technology. On our courses you'll discover the exciting industry of fashion business, and the many creative, practical, technical, and business elements that contribute to the fashion industry. You'll explore how textiles and products are created, tested, sourced, manufactured, managed, marketed, promoted, and retailed.

This BSc course in Fashion Product Innovation offers you a unique chance to blend fashion business acumen with a deep understanding of industry challenges, while also mastering the latest in textile innovations and garment manufacturing techniques.

The curriculum covers the technical complexities of materials and manufacturing, with a focus on innovative textiles for sustainable product development and crafting technically advanced garments that meet both functional and fashionable requirements.  You’ll actively engage with the latest innovations, including fabric innovations, sustainable textile manufacturing approaches, body scanning, parametric pattern creation, smart wearables, and virtual fitting, thereby ensuring a holistic and forward-thinking experience. 

Course Content

Year 1 The first year establishes the fundamentals in fashion business, textile science and technology through the core units in fashion buying, management, and marketing and the core textile science and garment technology units where students are introduced to fibres, materials, fabrics, and textile production processes.

Year 2 The second year explores specific aspects of management and marketing in depth with subjects such as Product development, Operations Management, Fashion Business and Analysis and Garment Production technology. There are optional specialist subjects that students can choose from focusing a variety of areas such as circular design for products, technical textile structures, creative product development, digital branding, international business and sustainable approaches to fashion business and fashion promotions and the instore environment. 

Year 3 The final year provides an opportunity to consolidate and extend specialist knowledge in areas of fashion textile and garment innovation studied in previous years. You may choose from a range of fashion business options within leadership, sustainability, and fashion business in the digital age. The final year projects allow you to specialise in an area of your choice, for example focusing on developing a broader corporate strategy for a fashion business, the development of a business start-up company or a project that combines business skills and innovative materials and technologies for emerging fashion and textiles markets. 

Careers Students graduate with experience and understanding of the science and technology behind the fabrics and garments they work with, as well as gaining critical and analytical understanding of the processes, procedures and aspects that make up the fashion industry. We equip our students with the skills to interpret the creative and technical elements that contribute to product development, as well as manage and market commercially viable fabrics and garments worldwide. There’s no knowing where a degree in Fashion Business Technology from The University of Manchester could take you!

For more information about this course, including careers and companies our students go on to work for, please see our Department website.

Accreditation This BSc course is accredited by the Textile Institute, which reflects the rigour of a degree in Fashion Product Innovation from The University of Manchester. Degrees accredited by professional bodies are highly sought after by employers, and their content is reflected in our own degrees which ensures we are equipping students with the best opportunities for a successful career.