Explore our comprehensive range of programs, courses, and short courses designed to help you achieve your educational goals and advance your career.
The major in Fashion Business Management provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for assuming positions in the merchandising industry in areas such as buying, sales, product development, creative fashion presentation, retail management, and marketing.
The Fashion Design one-year DFD program offers qualified students the opportunity to prepare for positions as designers, assistant designers, technical designers, or stylists. Through the application of design knowledge and experiential learning, the students develop their unique sense of aesthetics. Successful students will be able to adapt and apply their acquired knowledge to the evolving fashion industry, related design fields, and other creative careers.
The BSc Fashion Business and Communication program, aims to prepare you for a successful career in the complex and competitive global fashion industry. This course will challenge you by equipping you with knowledge and skills in product planning, brand management, sustainability, supply chain, business analysis and financial accounting, retail and marketing. It will encourage you to become leaders and innovators in the business of fashion.
This program is created to equip students with the fundamental technical skills, creative design processes, industry knowledge, and professional practices required for entry-level positions in the global fashion industry or for further specialized study.
A dynamic, hands-on program designed to transform your passion for fashion into professional styling expertise. Learn the creative and strategic skills needed to conceptualize, source, assemble, and present compelling fashion looks for diverse contexts – from personal clients and editorial spreads to commercial campaigns and digital content.
This course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of fashion trend forecasting, a critical aspect of the fashion industry. Students will learn how to predict future trends and translate them into successful fashion designs, marketing strategies, and business decisions. Through hands-on projects and case studies, students will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to stay ahead of the ever-changing fashion landscape.
Have you dreamt of designing a fashion collection but you're not sure where to start? This course will provide you with a full overview of the fashion design process and will help you understand how successful designers operate. Through the live digital classroom, you'll be guided through where to look for inspiration, how to conduct visual research and interpret visual references, and how to create mood boards that can be presented to clients. Following this, you'll be introduced to the hands-on design processes from concept, sketching, planning and executing your final design ideas with creative flair.
This 12-week program immerses beginners/intermediate students in the technical, creative, and strategic dimensions of fashion photography. Through studio shoots, location work, and digital labs, students master camera fundamentals while experimenting with lighting, composition, and post-production. The curriculum balances industry realism with artistic exploration—covering editorial, commercial, and digital content creation - culminating in a professional portfolio.
In this course, students will learn the fundamental technical skills to create garments, starting with the introductory and progressing into more complex and dynamic applications. Students will learn skills such as pattern making, draping, sewing and other means of garment construction in a critical and explorative manner while addressing cultural, social, and environmental contexts. Class time will comprise of learning the technical fundamentals of garment construction; applying research outcomes to manipulate, build, and construct 2D/3D products; exploring, analyzing, and deconstructing fashion products to understand construction methods; and navigating the design process as it moves from 2D to 3D.
This survey covers the history, characteristics, and global interrelationships of all segments of the fashion industry. The course explores how fiber, textile, and apparel producers, retailers, and home furnishings companies merchandise and market their products within the industry and to the ultimate consumer.
In this course we will focus on the practical and necessary tools used in the design process to ensure clear and effective communication for product development and manufacturing. Working from existing garments, students will be introduced to creating technical packages that contain detailed flat sketches, instructions, garment measurements, construction details, technical notes, and more, while learning how to communicate design ideas clearly and effectively through digital means. Students will also be introduced to the product development process and lifecycle. Students complete the course with examples of technical packages and an understanding of their role in streamlining the manufacturing process.
This course provides an opportunity for the student to continue development of personal research methodologies, design philosophy, processes and innovative approaches to materiality. Students will be guided to further develop a personalized approach to design aesthetic, vocabulary and markets. Students will examine more complex design concepts in order to demonstrate a breadth of understanding of brand identity and user contexts. Consideration will be given to the visual curation of the fashion process in terms of personal identity, communication and brand messaging. In this third course in a four-course core sequence, students will identify and understand the importance of re-contextualizing, defining, and applying personal design aesthetics to a broad range of product and/or related fashion design outcomes
