The fashion design industry is a fast-paced, competitive, and ever-changing field. You need hard work, determination, and a creative and technical mindset to succeed in this field. Successful designers must understand and adapt to the changes and challenges of the fashion industry. They must have the ability to visually present their ideas and to produce them. That is precisely what the Associate of Arts in Fashion Design program can prepare graduates to do.
Enhance Your Skills
The fashion design program is designed to prepare students with the skills that employers in the design industry want to see, including a strong foundation of design, illustration, computer, and presentation skills. You can gain hands-on experience not only in pattern making, clothing construction, draping, and specialty design, but also in creating storyboards and visual presentations from illustration and computer techniques. The implementation of computer graphics into the curriculum could provide you with even more of a competitive edge by teaching you to use the computer for fashion illustrations, textile design, flats and specifications, graphic layouts, and spreadsheets.
Career Avenues
Upon completion of the fashion design program, you can search for entry-level positions such as assistant designer, illustrator, stylist, technical designer, CAD or CAM operator, and many more.