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Study Abroad: Fashion Culture and Industry

Discover the impact of Italy on the fashion industry as you explore its rich history of craft, design, materiality, and manufacturing. Field trips to museums, markets, shops, and exhibitions will help you synthesize your research, experience, and resources in a journal and polished report, tailored to your area of study. Read More

Fashion Graphics: Visual Expression and Design

Explore the history and evolution of graphics in the fashion industry, including their connection to brand identity, art, and culture. Using primarily traditional hands-on techniques, you will engage with a variety of themes and design principles to develop creative ideas and personal style through your work.

Developments and Current Debates in Fashion Journalism

Explore the role of fashion journalism in culture. In roundtable discussion led by student facilitators, you’ll examine current media events and learn the industry’s social challenges, scandals, and controversies.

Construction/Draping/Flat Pattern 2

Advance your pattern cutting techniques and develop your construction skills. In this intermediate course, you will construct a dress, a basic shirt, a shirt with design variations, and a high-waisted skirt. We will emphasize industry standards for pattern making and construction techniques appropriate for industrial sewing equipment.

Creative Fashion Product Styling and Typography

Part art installation and part commerce, fashion still life augments the fashion product using color, composition, handcrafted props, and backgrounds. You’ll combine setups and imagery with innovative typefaces and layouts to create fashion still life installations for e-commerce, Instagram, and store display.

Study Abroad: Fashion Culture and Industry

Discover the impact of Italy on the fashion industry as you explore its rich history of craft, design, materiality, and manufacturing. Field trips to museums, markets, shops, and exhibitions will help you synthesize your research, experience, and resources in a journal and polished report, tailored to your area of study. Read More

Product Development: Digital Solutions for Design and Development

Get versed on product lifecycle management software (PLM) and 3D garment virtualization software. You will explore the garment prototype development and approval prior to production using industry software. Create style information, including bill of materials and style specifications in PLM, and create 3D garments from your style details using virtualization… Read More

Textiles: Surface & Material Exploration

Deepen your technical ability and design thinking for creative textile applications. You will explore various surface treatments, with an emphasis on understanding and working with different type of textiles. (This course is cross-listed with FSH 374.)

Fashion Business: Merchandise Planning

Become a master forecaster. You will gain the inventory management skills to analyze profitability, inventory turnover, purchasing, planning, and more, giving you a competitive advantage.

Fashion Business: Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy

Become a marketing communication professional. You will develop an integrated marketing communication strategy for a fashion business that targets new customers and reflects current trends and new technologies in today’s dynamic environment.