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Introduction to Fashion Design

Fashion design is a process. You will learn the basic steps of design development, editing, and balancing a ready to wear (RTW) collection. Plus, you’ll develop your technical, visual, and verbal presentation skills.

Fashion Business: Visual Merchandising: Image & Brand

Master visual merchandising concepts for fashion branding. You will conceptualize and execute visual merchandising designs and displays for a variety of retail marketing channels.

Product Development: Senior Capstone – Research and Concept

Develop a concept for the capstone project collection. You will research and apply product development strategies, using design, presentation, research, and analytical skills to identify opportunities for fashion brands to target specific customers.

Product Development: Design Fundamentals

Bring your product ideas to market. You will research existing brands, conduct trend research, create storyboards, and sketch flats to develop ideas for new products. Learn consumer markets, fabrication, roles within the supply chain, product development, and fashion product categories.

Product Development: Thesis Collection Development

Focus on product development for your individual final project. Using knowledge about fabrication, silhouettes, color, sampling, sourcing, and costing, you will analyze target markets, research, and trends to create your product lines.

Fashion Business: Industry Dynamics

The business of fashion is complex. You will get a comprehensive look at how various components of fashion business—product development, sourcing, buying, marketing, and retailing—are intertwined to create a powerful industry.

Fashion Business: Thesis Financial Planning

Profitability and cash flow. You will take a deep dive into the financial aspects of your approved business plan to make improvements for your final thesis project.

Drawing for Fashion

Develop foundational skills in sketching for fashion through direct observation. You will work with dry and wet media, use expressive line, and apply body proportions, basic human and garment anatomy, and figure balance to drawings.

Creative Concepts for Fashion

Focus on original and creative hands-on development for collections. Color, fabrics, proportion, silhouette, customer, and wearing occasion are explored through 2D and 3D development.

Fashion Business: Digital Techniques

You will learn to work fluidly between graphic design software programs and create concept boards, branding, merchandising and production documents, and marketing collateral to communicate information effectively.