Menswear
ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN
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 as teachers, guest lecturers, mentors, and critics, you’ll get in-depth exposure to this exciting industry.
COURSES INCLUDE
Menswear Jacket Tailoring, Menswear Flat Patternmaking Design, Menswear Design Studio Art, Digital Art for Menswear, Comparative International Apparel
STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES
Summer program traveling to Milan and Paris
TYPICAL INTERNSHIPS
Helmut Lang, Nautica, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Macy’s, Perry Ellis, Tommy Hilfiger, Phat Farm
CAREER OUTCOMES
Graduates begin careers as design associates and assistant designers, stylists, image consultants, and technical designers.
Gregory Rosborough, left, and Abdul Abasi, right, were classmates at FIT (they graduated in ’08) and went on to become business partners in an innovative menswear label—Abasi Rosborough—that reimagines classics like the suit jacket. All the outfits in this photo are by Abasi Rosborough. Photo: Christopher Hall ’11