The School of Fashion offers ten BFA degree programs, each designed to prepare you for work in the fashion industry. They are: Design, Knitwear Design, Textile Design, Costume Design, Footwear & Accessory Design, Fashion Styling, Fashion Product Development, Fashion Visual Merchandising, Fashion Merchandising, and Fashion Marketing. Students in these BFA programs may choose an emphasis in Fashion Design or 3D Design Pattern Making. Coursework combines excellence in design, artistic production, and innovative technology to provide students with the skills necessary to fully realize their creative visions.

In the Bachelor of Science in Fashion Design program at Stevenson, you will have the opportunity to develop your unique voice and creative vision in the field of fashion design. This program is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of fashion and costume, consumer psychology, materials, and techniques of apparel construction.

Dare to create original works while learning about all aspects of the fashion business and tapping into our extensive alumnae network. The Stephens College B.F.A. in Fashion Design and Product Development is one of the best in the world, ranking alongside programs at SCAD, F.I.T., and Parsons. The program ranks high for the learning experience, based on the quality of teaching and resources available, and long-term value, based on students’ preparedness for the real world.

The BFA in Fashion Product Development encompasses the process of fashion product development that requires understanding and knowledge of the consumer, market, and trends, textiles and raw materials, product concept and line development, and sourcing and manufacturing. Drawing from their design courses, students will apply a high level design aesthetic to develop products that are appropriate for a brand and their target customers. Students will learn the hand drawing and drafting skills and the technical skills needed to produce detailed and accurate technical drawings and flat patterns using industry standard computer software. BFA graduates will be capable of working in various roles in a product development team.

The innovative Fashion Design BFA program has trained six generations of designers who have shaped the global industry. Employing design thinking and creative problem-solving strategies, you explore form, silhouette, material, and process — including social and environmental imperatives — to create beautiful, sustainable, responsibly produced fashion for a complex and evolving field. You are encouraged to explore the broadest contexts and applications of fashion.

What's different about Mount Mary's Fashion Design Program? Mount Mary University’s fashion bachelor’s degree program was the first in the nation to start a four-year fashion degree program. When you're a fashion design student, you work directly with experienced faculty who have connections with prominent brands such as Harley-Davidson, Fashion Angels, BonTon Inc, Kohl's, Jockey, Lands' End. With small class sizes, you get the attention and mentorship all fashion greats deserve.

The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fashion Design program is designed to offer qualified students the opportunity to prepare for professional positions as fashion designers, assistant designers, technical designers, stylists, fashion executives, and haute couture educators.

The Textiles and Fashion Design (TFD) major is a Bachelor of Science program that combines art, design, and science. Students engage in studio projects and coursework covering historical and contemporary design. TFD options include specialization in apparel or textiles plus the opportunity to spend senior year at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Design integrates conceptual, technical and production design knowledge and skills, leading to a synthesis of the design process from concept to production. These processes include color, design and trend research; technical sketching and rendered illustration; pattern-making and garment construction; analysis of appropriate fit and fabric selection; and the ability to communicate specifications for production using industry standards appropriate to specific markets.

This program is where design meets business. Every season, fashion designers show their latest creations, some of which eventually make it from runways to store racks all over the world. It’s the job of the merchandise manager to choose the best of these designs, mixing and matching colors, sizes, and silhouettes to provide the customers what they want at a price they’re willing to pay.

Fashion is art. The fashion designer is the artist. The canvas? A world is full of people looking for the right paint.

An introduction to the apparel design process through trend research and figure drawing. Students will learn the history of fashion illustration. Traditional rendering techniques for fashion will be explored, as well as design focused product development for a range of target markets. Target markets include women’s, men’s, non-binary, children, active wear, special occasion and adaptive clothing. This course is open to other majors as a studio elective.

The Fashion Design and Technology faculty at Lindenwood University is highly skilled and knowledgeable, and always ready to help you out. They are professionals in the field and experienced educators, ready and willing to pass on their knowledge of the field to you. They are accessible, which makes it convenient and easy to reach them whenever you have questions.

MICA's Experimental Fashion studio minor provides fiber majors a structured framework in which to explore the overlapping cultural domains of fashion, clothing, performance and costume.

Interested in a career in the fashion industry? Want to express your sense of style while developing your creative, interpersonal, and business skills? Curious about fashion retailing, emerging fashion markets, and producing and marketing fashion ethically and sustainably, as well as the relationships between human culture and fashion? More than just seasonal trends, fashion is a cultural language, economic powerhouse, and artistic force felt worldwide.