Fashiondesign courses cover a variety of topics essential for creating innovative and marketable clothing and accessories. These include the basics of fashion illustration, garment construction, and textile selection. Learners will explore topics such as pattern making, fashion history, and color theory. Advanced courses might cover areas like digital fashion design, sustainable fashion practices, and fashion marketing. Practical exercises and projects help learners apply these concepts to real-world fashion design scenarios, enhancing their ability to bring creative ideas to life.
Choosing the right fashion design course depends on your current skill level and career aspirations. Beginners should look for courses that cover the basics of fashion illustration, sewing techniques, and an introduction to textiles. Those with some experience might benefit from intermediate courses focusing on advanced pattern making, fashion draping, and digital design tools. Advanced learners or professionals seeking specialized knowledge might consider courses on sustainable fashion, fashion entrepreneurship, or preparing for roles in fashion management. Reviewing course content, instructor expertise, and learner feedback can help ensure the course aligns with your goals.
A certificate in fashion design can open up various career opportunities in the fashion and design industries. Common roles include fashion designer, textile designer, fashion illustrator, and fashion merchandiser. These positions involve creating and developing clothing and accessory designs, illustrating fashion concepts, selecting and designing textiles, and managing fashion collections. With the dynamic nature of the fashion industry, earning a certificate in fashion design can significantly enhance your career prospects and opportunities for advancement in fields such as fashion design, retail, marketing, and brand management.
Parsons offers rigorous interdisciplinary programs across the spectrum of art and design, from fashion and technology to urban design, fine art, and management. Here, creators and scholars master established disciplines and develop emerging ones, fostering innovation that transforms business, advances sustainability, and enhances social impact and health.
Parsons faculty comprises world-renowned artists, scholars, and practitioners who lead their industries and academic fields. You work closely with them, benefitting from their scholarship and professional experience and networks. Our small class sizes enable you to benefit from their real-world experience and industry access.
Our school is animated by progressive creativity, activism, and its setting within a dynamic urban environment and university. Parsons is where ambition, ingenuity, and collaboration tirelessly converge, and New York City is the ideal setting for starting your journey.
At Parsons, your career begins your first day on campus. Here, you gain the creative and critical foundation you need to turn passions into a professional life of your own design. With your toolkit of hands-on, collaborative methods and global support network, you enter prepared for sustained success in your field or in advanced studies.
Parsons welcomes applicants who seek a rigorous education in an environment where creativity, critical thinking, and global perspectives thrive together. If you are ready to take first steps toward your creative education and career, you have come to the right place. Learn more about visiting, applying to, and attending our school.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is awarded for completion of 120 credits as designated by the program. A maximum of 60 credits may be transferred from another institution. Students must maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA and fulfill all requirements in a timely manner.
Starting in your second year, the holistic design-led fashion curriculum encompasses concept and research through 2D, 3D, and 4D processes. Core courses emphasize self-discovery, and the curriculum includes instruction in visual communication strategies and material research and employs a systems thinking approach to fashion. Your senior-year thesis is self-proposed and provides you with the opportunity to express your design philosophy in one of many formats, including a collection of garments or fashion products, material research, a written exploration of fashion-related social and cultural contexts, a documentary film, or a fashion presentation.
To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.
The AAS program provides an essential foundation in computer-aided design, sketching, draping, patternmaking, construction, sewing techniques, and textiles. Once you earn your AAS, you can apply for a BFA in Fashion Design. You are also eligible to apply to the BFA programs in Fabric Styling, Textile/Surface Design, and Toy Design, along with BS programs in Production Management: Fashion and Related Industries, Technical Design, and Textile Development and Marketing.
The PETE Prize is administered by the FIT DTech Lab as a jury-selected merit award competition that recognizes excellence in developing fresh, insightful and creative ideas that demonstrate design-oriented and innovative thinking.
A multidisciplinary fashion designer focused on innovative technical approaches and design thinking, Sperber aims at creating sustainable systems and creative solutions in clothing. She holds her BFA and MFA in Fashion Design from FIT and teaches in the undergraduate Fashion Design program.
The fashion design curriculum offers technical and design courses that provide skills required in the fashion industry. Individual designs are presented in two-dimensional form, developed and perfected through techniques used in the fashion industry, and then executed in final and three-dimensional form in fabrics appropriate to the design. Junior design students are encouraged to complete internships in the fashion industry in New York City. Internships provide not only experience but industry contacts, and are strongly recommended. They may be conducted primarily during the summer semester.
The Fashion Design one-year AAS program offers qualified students the opportunity to prepare for positions as designers, assistant designers, technical designers, or stylists. Through the application of design knowledge and experiential learning, the students develop their unique sense of aesthetics. Successful students will be able to adapt and apply their acquired knowledge to the evolving fashion industry, related design fields, and other creative careers. Curriculum below is for the entering class of fall 2024.
Austin Community College's Continuing Education department is excited to bring the world of fashion to our classrooms with our Fashion Programs! We will be offering three Award options, which include: Fashion Design Certificate, Fashion Marketing Certificate, and Associate of Applied Science in Fashion Design.
The Fashion Design Certificate will emphasize on the creation of clothing. Students will be encouraged to develop their personal vision and design philosophy while deepening their understanding of the various domestic and international market segments. Students will move from concept to production, learning drawing, draping, patternmaking, sewing, tailoring and specialty techniques.
The Fashion Marketing Certificate provides students with an understanding of how the fashion industry operates. This certificate award plan is designed to meet the needs of individuals in the community who desire skills and knowledge in marketing. All of the courses will aid these employees of all industries that are involved in all functions of marketing by allowing them to better understand how these marketing functions can affect the marketing process and how they are interrelated.
Certificate programs are self-paced, but typically take 12-24 months to complete based upon 3-4 class load per semester. Most of the Fashion Design courses are in person. All the Fashion Marketing classes are online
A Continuing Education student does NOT receive college credit. The student takes the class as non-credit. No admissions process required. A student can sign up online or in-person and then just show up on the first day of class.
The Fashion Marketing Certificate provides students with an understanding of how the fashion industry operates. This certificate award plan is designed to meet the needs of individuals in the community who desire skills and knowledge in marketing within the fashion industry.
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