Academy of Art University Master's Degree Fashion Knitwear Design and Construction |
Academy of Art University
Masters degree
Fashion
Knitwear Design and Construction
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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 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.
Knitwear Design Construction
* Mastery of single bed knitting and double bed knitting on hand flat machines.
* Experience in programming and operating computerized industrial knitting machines.
* Advanced ability to develop their original design concepts from knit swatches through to garment design, illustrated and rendered to industry standards.
* Advanced ability to cut paper patterns for specifically for knitwear.
* Advanced ability to construct fully-fashioned as well as cut-and-sew knit garments to industry standards.
* In depth understanding of the various gauges of knitting machines used in the Industry.
* In depth understanding of the properties of a wide variety of fibers used in industrial knitting yarns.
* Broad knowledge of widely used knit stitch structures and the industry terminology used to describe them.
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