Fashion and Textiles Courses

If you love fashion, follow trends and enjoy working in a creative environment, TAFE NSW can turn your passion into a successful career with a range of exciting fashion design and technology courses. The fashion industry is renowned for its shows but behind the catwalk and runways there are many other fashion careers in design, making, buying and merchandising to explore.

TAFE NSW is renowned for producing Australia’s most successful designers, including Alex Perry, Dion Lee and Nicky Zimmermann.

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Fashion and Textiles courses lets students explore their creativity, learn how to create products and apply their expertise to a professional standard. Courses in this sector are formulated to equip you with the practical skills and background knowledge you need to accomplish development, processing and innovative tasks within the fashion industry.

A fashion and textiles course can lead to a number of job opportunities, from designing a line for a runway show to running stylish, dynamic displays as a visual merchandiser. Qualifications in fashion and textiles can lead to a job as a fashion designer, buyer, stylist, patternmaker, or wardrobe supervisor. The average weekly salary for a fashion designer is $1,264.

Whether you're just starting out in your fashion and textiles career, want to gain more qualifications, add to your previous experience, or simply broaden your horizons, TAFE NSW offers a wide variety of courses at a number of levels to suit you. TAFE courses in the area include VIsual Arts, Design Fundamentals, Introduction to Textiles, Applied Fashion Design and Technology, Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising and Pattern Modification with Commercial Patterns.