School of Fashion and Textiles

Founded in 2022, the School of Fashion and Textiles (SFT) is a redesign and upgrade of the Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The aim of SFT is to use its proud history of research excellence, innovation and creativity to create a fashion school for the future and to nurture future-ready global fashion leaders. SFT has a rich heritage of teaching and research and is an international fashion school in Hong Kong. It aspires to cultivate socially responsible and professional fashion leaders, designers and entrepreneurs with strong creativity, and to foster a prosperous future for the rapidly changing fashion industry.

By skillfully blending Eastern and Western cultures, SFT offers a holistic and comprehensive range of undergraduate, taught postgraduate and research postgraduate programmes, covering disciplines ranging from fashion and textile design to fashion business and fashion technology. SFT is therefore well placed to offer the learning and development opportunities required by students of all types and ambitions. A wide variety of resources and facilities have been established at SFT to stimulate creative learning, translational research and innovation. Moreover, SFT has exploited its talents to engage in collaborations and partnerships and has developed strategic platforms with the fashion industry, fashion institutions, research organisations, professional bodies and trade associations in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area of Mainland China and beyond, thereby strengthening its global connections.