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Fashion Industry Preparation

Fine tune your graphic design skills to establish a web portfolio, develop collateral, and otherwise bring your portfolio to a professional fashion industry level. You will also learn to develop line sheets and tech packs for your collections.

Textiles: Explorations in Knit Design

Improve your single-bed knitting, hand knit, and crochet skills. You will understand knitwear’s place in the fashion industry and the foundational importance of material selection, color, stitch, and garment construction.

Fashion Business: Marketing Strategy

Marketing plays a critical role in any fashion organization. Learn how fashion companies successfully engage customers and competitors by establishing well-defined and strategic marketing approaches. You will gather, analyze, and synthesize research and data to create new opportunities in dynamic fast-changing markets.

Fashion Research and Reporting

Cultivate your journalistic voice in this hands-on journalism studio. You will gain essential reporting and writing skills and practice research strategies, fact-checking, drafting, and copy-editing techniques on a range of story types.

Introduction to Fashion & Print Design

Ignite your passion for fashion with an immersive experience that unlocks the limitless creativity and innovative design possibilities within the world of style. Dive into the vibrant world of fashion design where you’ll explore foundational skills and discover how to transform your ideas into stunning realities. Through hands-on sessions, you’ll… Read More

Fiber and Function: Textiles Across Industries

Textile quality matters. Hands-on analysis of fabric swatches and raw materials will give you insights into which textiles work for specific target markets.

Fashion Drawing

Communicate by drawing. You will gain a better understanding of the human body by drawing the clothed figure for fashion and general illustration.

Photo and Video Production

Those who create fashion images have considerable control over the creative vision of a project. You will learn and use production logistics and protocols to concept, organize, and style a fashion photo shoot and video. (This course is cross-listed with FSH 644.)

Senior Thesis: Toiles and Sampling

Create a pre-collection. You will learn the principles of manual grading, work with a life fit model, learn work production patterns for industry, and increase new construction and finishing techniques.

History of Textiles

Study traditional textiles of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including Western textile design from prehistory to the present. You will also focus on late 19th- and early 20th-century textile use in interiors, clothing, and cars.