Fashion Education and Training
Use fashion education and training to put your best stiletto forward
So you want to be a fashion designer and are looking for the right fashion design school. A fashion degree can be easy to pursue and a fun degree to obtain, but finding the right fashion schools can be a challenge.When choosing a fashion design school, you should keep in mind a number of factors including cost, distance from home, success of their overall program and more.
To find the right fashion design school for you:
1. Prepare a budget for your fashion education. Write down tuition, book, supply, food, travel, housing and miscellaneous expenses. Once you figure out your costs, determine if you can afford everything.
2. Look at scholarship opportunities offered through the various schools in fashion.
3. Make sure that the fashion training program that you choose covers the particular topic you want to learn about (e.g. shoes, clothing, jewellery, etc.).
Look at statistics before starting your search for fashion degree programs
Before you choose to pursue a fashion degree, look at some of the statistics on the field.
Try: Find fashion career advice from the Fashion Career Center. Find career and industry information at Fashion Careers.
Use a fashion design school search engine or directory
Instead of using Google or Yahoo, look to search engines specifically designed to give you information on fashion design school programs.
Try: Fashion-Schools.org is a tremendous resource for fashion schools, fashion careers, fashion articles and fashion blogs. Find out more tops picks and information at The CollegeBound Network. Look at the program and location information through the Art Institutes. Check out fashion schools by state at FashionSchoolReview.com.
Look direction on fashion design school websites
Visit fashion design school websites for more information on their location, their programs and their courses of study.
Try: FIDM/The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising is a WASC and NASAD accredited, co-educational, specialized, private learning institution with campuses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Orange County, CA. They offer an Associate of Arts, Professional Designation as well as Advanced Study Degree programs in Jewellery Design, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Theatre Costume Design, Interior Design, Merchandise Marketing, Merchandise Product Development, Visual Communications, Graphic Design, Beauty Industry Merchandising & Marketing, International Manufacturing & Product Development, Film & TV Costume Design, Digital Media, Footwear Design, and Apparel Manufacturing Management. They also offer a four-year Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management. Consider pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Fashion Design degree from the Art Institute of Tucson.
- When looking at universities with fashion education programs, speak with both their faculty and their students. A school may be ranked as one of the best fashion schools, but if their students don't feel that the experience has been rewarding for them, you might reconsider the school itself.
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