Bachelor of Fine Arts - Fashion Styling

The School of Fashion offers ten BFA degree programs, each designed to prepare students for work in the fashion industry. They are: Design, Knitwear Design, Textile Design, Costume Design, Footwear & Accessory Design, Fashion Styling, Fashion Product Development, Fashion Visual Merchandising, Fashion Merchandising, and Fashion Marketing. Students in these BFA programs may choose an emphasis in Fashion Design or 3D Design Pattern Making. Coursework combines excellence in design, artistic production, and innovative technology to provide students with the skills necessary to fully realize their creative visions.

Undergraduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Research and Concept Development

• Select concepts appropriate for the market and customer, building on analysis of design and market research.
• Generate ideas that are coherently related to the chosen concept as well as to one another.

Visual Presentation Skills

• Create professional and organized presentations that reflect an individual/personal style.

Technical Skills

• Demonstrate advanced skills in pinning, steaming, folding and propping fashion products
• Demonstrate basic skills in photography, composition, lighting, make-up artistry and hair styling

Verbal and Written Presentation Skills

• Clearly express their ideas utilizing fashion industry vocabulary.
• Competently pitch their ideas

Historical Knowledge

• Intelligently discuss major fashion movements and the work of key stylists, designers, photographers, and magazines

Art Direction

• Design the visual aesthetic of pictures for fashion photo shoots, including: clothes, accessories, backdrops, props, photographic styles, location, hair, make-up, and models

Production

• Manage production for commercial or fashion editorial photo shoots: crew, contracts, permits, transportation, catering, equipment
• Assemble and coordinate creative teams for photo shoots, and conduct casting of models

Collaboration Skills

• Work effectively in a team
• Assemble a network of vendors and showrooms to source for clothes, accessories, and props

Professional Readiness

• Create a relevant and original portfolio and collateral materials which can be used to market themselves to the industry

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