Textile Development and Marketing
ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
JAY AND PATTY BAKER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
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 our labs, and master professional equipment and software. By graduation you’ll be ready to use innovative technologies to turn your ideas into tomorrow’s fashions.
COURSES INCLUDE
Total Quality Management for Textile Products, Textile Converting and Costing, Textile Project Development, Color Creation and Sustainable Applications, Textile Value Chain Marketing: Concept to Consumer
TYPICAL INTERNSHIPS
Polo Ralph Lauren, Cotton Incorporated, Liz Claiborne, A|X Armani Exchange, Marc Jacobs
CAREER OUTCOMES
Graduates find positions worldwide with apparel manufacturers, design and fashion organizations, fiber companies, home furnishings manufacturers, and global sourcing firms, pursuing careers in line building, fabric sourcing, textile and apparel, retail private labels, product management, project design, fabric research and development, and color management.
Students harvest flax, the plant used to make linen, for the Farm-to-Fashion applied research project. We grow and harvest plants for natural dyes and fibers, we compost, and we demonstrate natural dyeing and sustainable agriculture. This experience changes how students think about textiles—and their future careers. The chemicals and processes used in textile production can harm the environment, and the industry is developing solutions. The students enter the industry with new attitudes, ideas, and the tools to change the world.
Students with any AAS degree from FIT may apply to this BFA program. Learn more about 2+2