Overview

Enter the Fashion Design or Fashion Merchandising departments and you are immediately transcended into a world reflecting the exciting, non-stop, energetic, and fast-paced world of an industry you've always wanted to be in - the whirl of sewing machines, the snip of the scissors, and the rustle of the fabrics. That's the traditional side of the hall. On the other side are students at computers developing patterns, rendering worksheets, and creating digital portfolios. All this and more under the instruction from expert industry professionals.

Fashion Design

The Fashion Design bachelor's degree or associate's degree programs offers the passionate, focused and competitive student the ability to develop the skills needed for an exciting career. Take your ideas from concepts to finished garments. Enhance your skills in design, sketching and illustration, patternmaking, garment construction, critical analysis, sewing, draping, textiles, and digital designing. You'll even have a chance to show off your creations in the college's annual fashion show extravaganza.

Take your designing skills to another dimension as you gain experience with the same types of Gerber technology systems that top fashion houses use to digitize, draft patterns, and grade garments. There are optional fashion trips to places like France, Italy, New York, and the Orient to visit major factories, showrooms, and museums.

When you finish the program, you'll be prepared to seek entry-level positions such as CAD operator, assistant designer, product development assistant, sourcing specialist, assistant product manager, or CAD specialist.

• Bachelor of Science in Fashion Design
• Associate of Science in Fashion Design

Fashion Merchandising

Want to become part of a fast-paced, rewarding industry where accessories, fashion shows, and shopping are your life? Fashion Merchandising is the business that moves the world's fashions from design showrooms, to retails sales floors and into the hands of the consumers.

If you have a flare for style and a strong business sense, you'll enjoy learning from industry professionals who teach you how to produce a fashion show, forecast trends, start your own retail business, and international marketing. Along the way, you and your fashion-minded classmates will have an opportunity to experience the excitement of traveling to Europe, the Orient, and New York to visit design showrooms and meet the movers and shakers of the industry.

Upon graduation, you'll have the skills to pursue work in entry-level positions such as a buyer, stylist, merchandiser, special events coordinator, visual merchandiser, as well as positions in management and sales promotion.

• Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising

Student Fashion Club

Organization for students training for careers in management, fashion, merchandising, computers, and entrepreneurship. Become highly involved in the fashion community and our largest student club. For more information, or to become a new member, contact us.
Link to BLOG: http://aiflfashionclub.wordpress.com/

Facebook Fashion Group

This is a group for the members of the Fashion Club of The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Its a chance to get involved and be aware of all the upcoming projects, events and activities of the fashion department. This group will also give you the opportunity to network with classmates and friends. So join and get involved!
Visit the Facebook Fashion Group

 

 

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