The MFA fashion curriculum refines and focuses the graduate candidate’s individual vision, offering courses in fashion design, merchandising, textiles, and knitwear. Studio courses for fashion design, textile, and knitwear students hone the graduate candidate’s mastery of fashion industry standards in design and construction, enhancing design excellence with computer skills, and preparing MFA candidates to launch themselves into the industry upon graduating. Merchandising majors acquire the skills to succeed in fashion careers in buying, product development, retail management, or marketing. Courses include textiles, product sourcing, trend forecasting and product development, product line development, merchandising principles, retail and human resource management, marketing and visual merchandising and business planning.
Subsequent to intensive studio and academic courses, the graduate candidate is guided through directed study, culminating in a Final Project—production of a professional fashion collection and portfolio, or merchandising project. Selected collections are chosen to be part of the Academy’s Annual Fashion Show.
Fashion Design
* Advance ability to undertake extensive visual research development.
* Ability to develop color story, fabric story and design detail inspiration.
* Ability to create mood boards and presentation board building for presentation.
* Commanding ability to communicate design development ideas using quick sketch techniques.
* Advanced ability to build a balanced collection.
* Advanced skills application in fashion design sketch illustration for croquis and fabric rendering.
* Advanced flat technical specification drawing by hand and by computer.
* Personalized professional presentation skills for portfolio development.
* Thorough understanding of the various international market segmentations.
* Ability to design for different seasons and classifications.
* Advanced ability to use computer skills to industry standard for fashion illustration, rendering, flat sketching and presentation.
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