Fabrics

Interested in Fabrics? You may want to consider the following paths:

Textile/Surface Design

Textile/Surface Design is the design and development of fabrics for fashion, accessories, and interiors, including products for home markets. Integrating traditional drawing and painting techniques with digital design, weaving, and screen printing, this hands-on program prepares students for jobs in the evolving textile industry. In the AAS program, you’ll build strong foundations in color…

Textile Development and Marketing

Textiles include the denim in your jeans, the cotton in your sheets, and the recycled plastic of high-performance carpet. There’s a growing demand for professionals who can develop, produce, and market the right textiles at the right price, while ensuring that production meets quality and legal standards. You’ll study textiles in the fashion and home furnishings industries, learn hands-on in…

Production Management: Fashion and Related Industries

Apparel and textile businesses need to deliver quality merchandise on time and at the right price. This program immerses you in the business administration and production techniques for competitive manufacturing systems in today’s global marketplace. You’ll learn analytical and conceptual problem solving, effective business communication, and industry systems and software. The AAS program…

Menswear

The menswear field is booming. The competitive menswear market requires extensive training, along with the vision and creativity to set the trends rather than follow them. This program teaches you how to interpret style, create fashions, and analyze trends, while providing an exacting technical and artistic background in design and marketing. As you engage with industry professionals who serve…

Illustration

The Illustration program inspires young artists to integrate drawing, painting, and conceptual abilities with the dynamic power of cutting-edge technology. You’ll innovate and create images starting in your first classes. Illustration empowers you to realize your innate abilities and develop advanced creative skills, establishing your unique illustrative style and means of visual expression…

Fashion Design

As a Fashion Design student in one of the world’s top programs, you’ll create designs informed by market research and inspired by history, art, and culture. The AAS program provides an essential foundation in computer-aided design, sketching, draping, patternmaking, construction, and textiles. The BFA program offers concentrations in children’s wear, knitwear, intimate apparel, special occasion…

Fabric Styling

Because styling is the first step in creating fashion concepts for apparel and home products, stylists are a vital link connecting concept, design, presentation, and finished product. This program teaches design concepts, trend forecasting, and computer-aided textile design. In hands-on classes taught by industry professionals, you’ll study the role of fabric in fashion and learn about fashion…

International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries

International trade is the linchpin of the global fashion industry. At FIT, you’ll learn to navigate the complex international marketplace, including the financial, legal, logistical, and intercultural aspects of importing and exporting, with an emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility. You’ll study international finance, business strategies, fashion law, and market research…