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Fashion designers combine conceptual, creative and technical skills to create original collections of garments and accessories consistent with established fashion trends. Fashion marketers and managers use global marketing, promotion and distribution strategies and apply creative thinking in the business world to help their products reach consumers.
SCAD offers one of the largest and most comprehensive fashion programs in the United States with a balanced curriculum of design and construction. Fashion students are encouraged to develop creative and intellectual thinking, inventive design skills, and practical expertise necessary to succeed in careers in the global fashion industry.
SCAD offers one of the largest and most comprehensive fashion programs in the United States with a balanced curriculum of design and construction. Fashion students are encouraged to develop creative and intellectual thinking, inventive design skills, and practical expertise necessary to succeed in careers in the global fashion industry.
Sewing studios are equipped with industry-standard dress forms, cutting tables, professional sewing machines and specialty finishing equipment. Computer labs offer an Infinity Plus plotter for patternmaking, Mimaki fabric printer, software including Kaledo, Vision Fashion Studio, Gerber Suite, Lectra U4ia, Virtual Fashion Pro, and online or print subscription services including WGSN, here & there and Peclers.
The fashion department partners with innovative designers and hosts industry professionals who critique student work, present lectures and lead workshops. Recent visitors include Lela Rose; Barneys New York Creative Director Simon Doonan; Mark Badgley and James Mischka; Tracy Reese; Trina Turk, California designer; Mary Gehlhar, fashion division director of Gen Art and author; Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, president of Nancy Gonzalez; and Franck Boclet, international designer for Francesco Smalto.
Students in the fashion program have a unique opportunity to work with industry mentors on a variety of projects, as well as submit their designs to national and international competitions at all levels.
The fashion department partners with innovative designers and hosts industry professionals who critique student work, present lectures and lead workshops. Recent visitors include Lela Rose; Barneys New York Creative Director Simon Doonan; Mark Badgley and James Mischka; Tracy Reese; Trina Turk, California designer; Mary Gehlhar, fashion division director of Gen Art and author; Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, president of Nancy Gonzalez; and Franck Boclet, international designer for Francesco Smalto.
Students in the fashion program have a unique opportunity to work with industry mentors on a variety of projects, as well as submit their designs to national and international competitions at all levels.
Through the Style Lab mentorship program, selected students may experience working industry standards and receive direction and inspiration for their senior collections through one-on-one critiques and guidance from concept through production. Mentors have included New York designers Brian Wolk and Claude Morais of Ruffian, and international designers Yigal Azrouël and Lars Nilsson.
Through the annual fashion show, juried collections of undergraduate and graduate student work are showcased in a major production, covered by national and international media and streamed live over the Internet. Special guests have included Vogue Editor-at-large André Leon Talley and renowned international designers Oscar de la Renta, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada, Tom Ford, Vera Wang, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, and Isabel and Ruben Toledo.
SCAD Style is an annual series of events and exhibitions that culminates with a student fashion show and the bestowing of the André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award to an icon of fashion.
SCAD is one of few universities in the United States to offer an M.F.A. in fashion. The program combines design education and innovation to balance the development of students’ creative and intellectual skills with practical and professional training specific to the global apparel industries.
Through the annual fashion show, juried collections of undergraduate and graduate student work are showcased in a major production, covered by national and international media and streamed live over the Internet. Special guests have included Vogue Editor-at-large André Leon Talley and renowned international designers Oscar de la Renta, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada, Tom Ford, Vera Wang, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, and Isabel and Ruben Toledo.
SCAD Style is an annual series of events and exhibitions that culminates with a student fashion show and the bestowing of the André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award to an icon of fashion.
SCAD is one of few universities in the United States to offer an M.F.A. in fashion. The program combines design education and innovation to balance the development of students’ creative and intellectual skills with practical and professional training specific to the global apparel industries.
Contact Fashion
- fashion@scad.edu
- admission@scad.edu
- Hong Kong/Savannah/eLearning: 800.869.7223 or 912.525.5100
- Atlanta: 877.722.3285 or 404.253.2700
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Events
Ivy Hall Lecture Series: "2010 Fashion Trends" by Bruno Lima
Nov. 08, 2009
Transfer Chat Session (Noon-3 p.m. EST)
Nov. 18, 2009
News
- Sep. 01, 2009
Heidenreich receives Jeffrey New Talent Award - Aug. 24, 2009
SCAD partners with Jeffrey Kalinsky - Aug. 18, 2009
Industry leader Michael Fink named dean - Jun. 11, 2009
Fashions of a modern muse at SCAD Museum
Recognition
- Mueller, Schwind work at Abercrombie & Fitch
- Audra Noyes receives YMA Fashion Scholarship
- Rybicki designer with Ralph Lauren
- Students, alumna enter Disney College Program
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