Fashion Design & Merchandising Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree

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Fashion Design & Merchandising

Develop a head for business and an eye for fashion design.

Fashion Design & Merchandising Bachelor of Fine Arts DegreeFashion is certainly one of the more-glamorous fields, where creating and forecasting trends, attending fashion shows and visiting designer showrooms can be part of your job. Personal style can be your starting point, but you need more than a flair for fashion to make it in this field. You can learn what it takes in our Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design & Merchandising program. It’s designed to help you gain the skills – along with the business knowledge – to take your creative ideas all the way from fashion sketch to models on the runway to the customers who will purchase them.

Along with exploring professional techniques for creating and producing your designs – including fabric and color selection, pattern drafting, draping, garment construction, and tailoring – you’ll have the opportunity to learn about fashion publicity and promotion, merchandising practices, store design, and global sourcing. When you graduate, you should have a portfolio showcasing your best work and an understanding of how fashions progress from design to runway to retail.

A Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Fashion Design & Merchandising could be your first step in pursuing an exciting career that requires both fashion savvy and business smarts. Among potential opportunities are:

  • Apparel Design
  • Fashion Illustration
  • Retail Store Management
  • Visual Merchandising
  • Trend Analysis
  • Pattern design
  • Textile Design
  • Fashion Styling
  • Wardrobe Consulting
  • Merchandise Coordination
  • Merchandise Buying
  • Fashion merchandising
  • Assistant buying

Outcomes based on graduates of an affiliated school, outcomes and titles may vary

Learn more. Contact us now for more information on our Fashion Design & Merchandising program or to Find out if you’re a candidate for acceptance.



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