Explore our comprehensive range of programs, courses, and short courses designed to help you achieve your educational goals and advance your career.
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.
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 BFA Fashion Design program promotes collaboration at every level, allowing students to engage in projects alongside peers from other disciplines, including those enrolled in the BSc Fashion Business course. This program advocates for the break down all societal barriers and perceptions when describing gender and identity. We embrace a non-gendered approach. Students are encouraged to expand and challenge concepts by mastering a variety of techniques, ranging from traditional hand skills to advanced computerized machinery, pushing the limits to achieve unique outcomes. They are expected to engage with emerging practices and experimentation with new technologies as a part of a new forward-thinking approach to education. The BA Fashion Design program at Phnom Penh Fashion Institute aims to refine students' skills, supported by a distinguished faculty of experienced practitioners and researchers with international recognition, who come from varied backgrounds and maintain strong industry connections at the forefront of fashion. Students are innovators, critical thinkers, and pioneers, thriving in the vibrant and dynamic art school atmosphere that sets PPFI apart from other fashion programs. Learning occurs through diverse experiences within a community, where students are encouraged to collaborate with peers and industry professionals to enhance their learning, understanding, and opportunities.
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 course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of marketing in the fashion industry. This course will cover topics such as consumer behavior, brand management, advertising and promotion, social media marketing, and retail strategies. Students will learn how to develop effective marketing strategies and campaigns to successfully promote and sell fashion products.
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.
The course covers essential aspects of portfolio development, including project selection, layout composition, storytelling and refining presentation techniques. Students will also strengthen their creative research and illustration skills and gain confidence in their ability to translate ideas into a cohesive visual narrative. Particular attention will be paid to demonstrating both the creative process and the final outcome, ensuring a comprehensive and engaging portfolio.
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 studio course addresses the basic elements of fashion design. Assignments introduce the design processes of trend and fabric research, storyboarding compiling, color story, design innovation and the 2D to 3D development of creative ideas.
Students in this course develop skills necessary to create advanced sample garments. The emphasis is on the production of the first sample muslin or prototype through the application of advanced draping and pattern drafting techniques. Students work with fit models to learn the various fitting procedures used in the industry. Pattern alterations and manipulations are demonstrated in class to show how alterations are processed and corrected on the paper pattern. Presentation of final muslins is critiqued prior to the development of final garments.
This course explores the application of advanced sewing technology across a range of fashion products. Emphasis is placed on producing a reference sample book by using various fashion materials
This is the first in a three-quarter sequence of courses in which the student focuses on conceptualizing an original 2D collection specializing in a major area of design. Students explore identifying customer profiles, researching major areas of specialization, sources of inspiration and fabrication selection. The student develops portfolio-ready technical sketches, illustrations, flats, storyboards, color storyboards and fabric swatches in preparation for the Senior Collection II course.
