School of Fashion

Discover your creative voice as you prepare to become a part of the global fashion industry.  As a fashion design student, you’ll research, source, sketch, drape, make patterns, and construct garments. Each project is a response to prompts designed to hone your originality and creative problem-solving skills. With support from faculty and industry partners, you’ll develop strong technical ability, design confidence, and critical thinking skills. These tools will help you build a portfolio that demonstrates your full potential.

Translate vision into tactile artistry. From fabric burnout and photographic screen printing to computer-assisted prints and knitwear, you’ll sharpen your drawing and color skills while merging design excellence, artistic vision, and innovative technology to create textiles that command attention.

Fuse rigorous sewing skills with industry-specific design training for theater and film. Collaborate with the School of Motion Pictures & Television and the School of Acting to bring characters to life with garments built for both performance and story.

Shape the way the world sees fashion. Build creative and technical skills to become a photo or video producer, art director, creative director, fashion editor, stylist, or social media content creator. Craft the imagery, fashion art direction, and experiences that define style and drive culture.

Blend the art of styling with the craft of storytelling. Develop skills in styling, image making, video production, writing, and social media—collaborating across disciplines to create visual narratives and building a portfolio that reflects expertise and vision.

Navigate and communicate the complexity of the global fashion industry. Learn to ask sharper questions, frame fashion news in cultural and economic context, and evaluate collections with a critical eye. Create nuanced, cross-platform stories for print, digital, and social media.

Master the balance between creativity and strategy. Use consumer and market insights to shape marketing and promotional strategies that position brands, products, and services for global success.

Create, market, and manage brands on a global scale. Gain insights into consumers, markets, and trends to develop marketing and brand strategies that merge creative vision with analytical precision.

Plan, manage, and sell fashion products worldwide. Through hands-on, real-world projects, gain the expertise needed to excel in global fashion business operations.

Learn to navigate the complexities of a global fashion business. Gather, analyze, and apply market research to plan, manage, and sell products across online and brick-and-mortar platforms.

Design and develop products that align with brand identity and reach diverse markets. Analyze trends, create technical drawings, source materials, and plan seasonal collections from concept to completion.

The lab is fully equipped for screen printing with more than 700 silkscreens, repeat yardage tables, U.V. exposure units, pigments, dyes, and industry-standard tools that take concepts from vision to fabric.

Work with modern patternmaking systems, a fusing press, industrial and leather sewing machines, and over 120 dress and sportswear forms—plus a full complement of makeup and hairstyling equipment to complete each look.

Explore a tactile library of fibers, yarns, fabrics, trend books, and other resources that inspire and inform your work.

Access the same cutting-edge technology used by top brands. You’ll use software like Gerber Accumark, PLM, and CLO 3D, as well as hardware like the Gerber Infinity Plotter and Digitizer. Transform your digital patterns into physical reality.

Choose from over 800 garments, accessories, and props—with new pieces added every semester—so you can complete your styling projects without renting or buying outside the school.

Our knitwear studios boast a suite of machines that parallel industry standards from domestic and punch card to double-bed and dubied. An extensive range of yarns and equipment allows the creative practice of knitwear design to professional standards.

Our computer lab is built for performance with PC systems equipped with the latest software used across courses. A lab technician is available during business hours to keep your tools aligned with your workflow.