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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.
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 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 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.
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.
This 12-week intensive program equips students with industry-relevant skills in digital fashion illustration, combining artistic creativity with cutting-edge technology. Using school-provided graphic drawing tablets, students will master digital tools to translate fashion concepts into professional-grade illustrations. The curriculum progresses from foundational sketching to advanced techniques like fabric rendering, dynamic presentation, and portfolio development. Emphasizing hands-on projects, students will develop a unique visual style. By integrating traditional design principles with digital workflows, this course prepares students for diverse roles in fashion, from design houses to digital content creation.
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 8-week course at Phnom Penh Fashion Institute will provide you with the skills you need to get started with pattern making and garment construction.
This foundational course introduces students to reading a variety of short texts, learning and practicing explicit reading skills. Students explore a variety of simple writing tasks such as guided writing, retells and dictation. Students are introduced to simple verb forms, basic parts of speech and simple sentence structure. Furthermore students will interact task-based, situational language functions are explored in this course. Students work on developing their oral and aural communication skills through dialogues, discussions, videos, and short lectures. Students build production of segmental sounds and basic stress and intonation patterns in isolation.
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 course introduces students to the multiplicity of theoretical frameworks and methodologies that have defined the history of art as a discipline. The course explores art history's evolution as a field of study, seeking to understand the ways in which art historians have established the autonomy of their subject. The course addresses the manyintersections with other disciplines and bodies of knowledge.
This course allows students to further develop 2D and 3D design skills and practices within the context of the discipline, and to build on the skills introduced in previous module. Students will then continue to refine their approaches in regard to primary research and balancing the technical with the aesthetic.