Formed by David Band, Brian Bolger, Fraser Taylor and Helen Manning for their Royal College of Art degree show, The Cloth was an innovative 1980s creative collective. The Cloth created textile designs for numerous fashion clients including Betty Jackson, Paul Smith, Fenn Wright & Mason, Nicole Miller and Calvin Klein. The collective worked with Liberty of London to create window displays, t-shirts and printed textile designs. Through this connection with Liberty, designs for Jean Muir, Wendy Dagworthy and Yves Saint Laurent were created. Under The Cloth label, garments sold through prestigious retail outlets. Although all members of The Cloth were trained in printed textiles, their prolific array of outputs spanned creative disciplines into graphics, painting, product and interiors. For the music industry, they generated artworks for record sleeves and promotional items. Bringing together materials from public and private collections with oral histories, the paper will examine The Cloth’s innovative textile and garment outputs, to provide insights into their ways of working positioned within the wider 1980s fashion context. This paper presents research in progress; the wider project seeks to compile a history of creative outputs by The Cloth, while examining educational experiences and creative processes which informed collaborative and cross-disciplinary working.