Be in good company
Collaborate with and learn from internationally respected fashion and textile designers in your studies at Massey.
Go broad or specialise
At Massey you can focus on your passion for fashion or your talent for textiles. Or mix and match across both.
Global top 100
Get creative at Massey. The only New Zealand university to be ranked by QS in the .
Reputation counts
With a reputation for innovative research and practice, Massey is the country's oldest creative arts school, dating from 1886.
Overview
Design for the future with Massey. We focus on devising clothing, fabrics and systems that respond to our times, and on shaping a sustainable future for the fashion and textile industry.
Learn from lecturers with industry experience. Discover new ideas with researchers with expertise in areas such as ethical fashion or material innovation such as bio-materials. Explore ways of making, from traditional processes to digital technologies. Master in-demand skills in our well-equipped studios. Gain industry experience and contacts with field trips and internships in New Zealand and overseas. Graduate with a qualification respected nationally and internationally.
Fashion and textile design is a good fit if you:
- do well in fashion technology or other design subjects
- want to be part of a sustainable and ethical fashion and textile industry
- like creative thinking and getting hands-on to make things.
Fashion and textile design courses may cover:
- analysing historical or contemporary fashion and textiles
- design processes, including ways to generate ideas and develop concepts
- fashion communication
- pattern-making and creating prototypes
- sewing and tailoring techniques for garment construction
- sustainability, including zero-waste production methods
- textile techniques ranging from traditional to cutting edge
- trends in the global fashion market.
Catwalks and competitions
Our fashion and textile design students present their collections in exhibitions and fashion events at Massey, at , and at other events around the world.
Our staff, students and graduates have a long history of participation and success in design competitions such as:
- Project Runway USA, won in 2014 by Massey graduate Sean Kelly
- .
How to study fashion and textile design
Discover what we offer if you鈥檙e interested in fashion and textile design 鈥 whether you鈥檙e coming to university for the first time, changing direction or returning to advance your study or career.
Undergraduate study
Undergraduate bachelor's degrees with honours
Bachelor of Design with Honours 鈥 BDes(Hons)
Change the world through design. 澳门开奖 in New Zealand鈥檚 leading and most comprehensive design qualification.
Fashion Design 鈥 Bachelor of Design with Honours
Kick start your fashion design career with a degree from the school that has produced designers like Kate Sylvester, Kathryn Wilson, Rebecca Taylor, and Sean Kelly (Project Runway NY winner, 2014).
Integrated Design 鈥 Bachelor of Design with Honours
Take a unified approach to design. Develop strong design strategies and contextual understanding, applying your technical skills in the design fields of your choice.
Textile Design 鈥 Bachelor of Design with Honours
Textiles span everything from design for fashion and interiors, to industrial products and gallery exhibitions. Learn to innovate in material, pattern and surface design, and consider environmental, social and cultural challenges.
Undergraduate certificates
Certificate in Creative Arts 鈥 CertCreativeArt
Massey鈥檚 Certificate in Creative Arts is a flexible qualification that will introduce you to the basics of art and design -聽creative thinking, visual communication, specialist skills, and critical awareness.
Undergraduate diplomas
Diploma in Creative Arts 鈥 DipCreativeArts
You鈥檒l study with art and design degree students in a range of studio and lecture-based courses covering everything from critical and contextual studies, to social media, painting, and digital fabrication.
Graduate diplomas
Graduate Diploma in Design 鈥 GDipDes
Develop your technical skills and learn to think like a designer.
Relevant undergraduate subjects to major or specialise in
When you apply to study at Massey, for some undergraduate qualifications you can choose what subject you鈥檇 like to specialise in. You can usually change your mind after you get to university, depending on the courses you enrol in.
Postgraduate study
Master's degrees
Master of Design 鈥 MDes
In the Master of Design, you鈥檒l produce innovative and responsive design work that is thoroughly grounded in design research methodologies and expertly realised.
Master of Fine Arts 鈥 MFA
Embed yourself in a rich dialogue about your creative practice in Massey鈥檚 transdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts qualification, for artists and designers.
Time to complete 12 months full time
Credits 120
Location 澳门开奖 and W膿t膩 Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand
Undertake your own research and design project, exploring how Entertainment Design works as a tool for creating compelling characters, engaging worlds, and incredible stories. The programme culminates with a written research component presented alongside a body of concept design work.
Students will have access to 澳门开奖 workshop, studio, teaching, and library facilities.
Postgraduate diplomas
Postgraduate Diploma in Design 鈥 PGDipDes
Go beyond your bachelor鈥檚 degree and advance your design thinking with a Postgraduate Diploma in Design.
PhD and other doctoral degrees
Doctor of Philosophy 鈥 PhD
A prestigious research qualification that demonstrates your ability to carry out independent and original research in your chosen field.
Our facilities
You'll have access to a wide range of first-class facilities when you study with us.
Fashion workrooms
Students have access to extensive workrooms that include plain sewers, overlockers, industrial presses, buttonholers, bar tackers, knit and leather machinery. The expansive studios have large tables for pattern-making and cutting, and computer labs for digital pattern-making using CAD software, pattern digitising and plotting. There is space for students to set up their own working stations as they prepare final collections or presentations.
Textile workrooms
Equipment and facilities include:
- digital embroidery machines
- dye laboratory with testing equipment
- knit machines, yarn twister and cording machines
- looms for felting or traditional weaving 鈥 and digital Jacquard loom
- screenprint and digital printing with 7m print tables.
Location: Wellington campus
Fab Lab
Fab Lab Wgtn is Australasia鈥檚 first digital fabrication laboratory (Fab Lab) affiliated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Fab Lab's capabilities include: A computer-controlled laser cutter; numerically-controlled milling machine; a sign cutter; a precision milling machine to make three-dimensional moulds; surface-mount circuit boards; and small 3D printers, for fast production of 3-dimensional forms.
ecentre: Develop your entrepreneurial mindset
Got a business idea? ecentre helps students and staff gain hands-on experience and knowledge to build a sustainable enterprise.聽
Join a community of like-minded entrepreneurs and innovators, supported by people who understand your goals.
Location: All campuses and available to distance students
Jobs in fashion and textile design
The fashion industry is ever-changing, thanks to creative flair and advances in sustainability and technology. Careers can span the catwalk to costume design, interiors to production processes, marketing to research and development.
Some Massey graduates set up their own label. Others work for established companies. Our graduates work in New Zealand businesses such as Cavalier Bremworth, Icebreaker, Kate Sylvester, Kowtow, and W膿t膩 Workshop, and international companies such as:
- Alexander McQueen (UK)
- Givenchy (Italy)
- Gorman (Australia)
- Nike (USA).
Fashion and textile design careers include:
- buyers, who source materials for designers or clothing for stores
- costume designers for film, stage or TV
- designers, who may specialise in accessories, clothing or jewellery
- fashion illustrators or animators
- pattern-makers
- product developers, who may specialise in areas such as sport or travel
- textile designers, who may specialise in knitted, printed or woven fabrics
- trend forecasters.
Annual salary ranges for jobs
- 鈥 $42,000 to $160,000
- 鈥 $42,000 to $100,000
Salary ranges disclaimer
Indicative pay rates are:
- in New Zealand dollars
- based on data.
Which fashion and textile design qualification?
Examples of where our qualifications may take you.
| Jobs | Examples of what you could study |
|---|---|
| Costume designer for film, stage or TV |
Master of Design Bachelor of Design with Honours (Integrated Design) |
| Fashion designer | Bachelor of Design with Honours (Fashion design) |
| Stylist |
Bachelor of Design with Honours (Fashion design) Bachelor of Design with Honours (Textile design) |
| Textile designer | Bachelor of Design with Honours (Textile design) |
Accreditations and rankings
QS Ranking - Art & Design
College of Creative Arts 鈥 Toi Rauwh膩rangi ranks in the global top 150 for art and design by QS World University Rankings.
NASAD
Massey's College of Creative Arts is New Zealand's only art and design school granted 鈥渟ubstantial equivalency鈥 鈥 an international benchmark of quality 鈥 by the United States National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
Red Dot Design ranking
Ranked 3rd in Asia-Pacific by International Red Dot Design Awards, the only design school to be ranked in New Zealand and Australia. This significant achievement recognises the high calibre of our teaching staff and the exceptional quality of our students' design concept work.
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