Special Programs in the Art Institute Fashion Design Major

Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Fashion Design

Fashion is art. The fashion designer is the artist. The canvas? A world full of people looking for the right paint. To requite the people what they desire and satisfy your desire to express your artistic vision through fashion, the right fashion design schoolhouse tin exist what puts you on the path to that beautiful thing that happens when a career and a passion come together.

Program Highlights

Couture Structure

CAD Production Patternmaking

Accessories

Sustainable Way

Textile Science

Product Development + Management

On-campus BFA Caste Requirements

RMCAD's Fashion Design curriculum is designed to mesh the essential elements of form and role in fashion design with key concern and communication skills, country-of-the-industry engineering science, and a focus on turning your creative vision into an innovative portfolio.

* RMCAD offers classes year-round in both on-campus and online delivery formats. At RMCAD, we believe that online learning is an important part of the overall higher learning experience. To provide students multiple scheduling options, various learning modalities, and experience in the virtual surroundings, all on-campus students are required to have part in online education.

RMCAD'southward Mode Pattern Plan volition never have y'all nodding off in form considering y'all'll be learning nearly more than just clothing. We believe that the more versatile your education, the more creative you can become as an creative person. Courses include program fundamentals as well as cultural, social, and just plain practical content.

• History of Fashion
• Textiles
• CAD Pattern Making

And better still, you'll learn how to soar as a designer responsibly, with courses on sustainable fashion.

Students in RMCAD'south on-basis* Fashion Pattern Program will be provided with the following equipment:

• Juki DDL-8700 High-speed Single Needle Straight Lockstitch Industrial Sewing Machine
• Professional person Female person Dress Grade with Collapsible Shoulders

*Effective Autumn 2021

As the world evolves, so likewise does fashion, and it provides many options for your futurity. A RMCAD Mode Design Caste doesn't leave you lot with ane path to success, information technology gives y'all choices! Our graduates have the opportunity to launch heady careers all across the manner arena.

Career possibilities:

• Stylist
• Print Coordinator
• Textile Designer
• Technical Designer
• CAD Artist
• Graphic Fashion Designer
• Product Design
• Product Development
• Production Manager
• Design Assistant

Equally a educatee in the Manner Design Program, you lot'll develop your own exceptional portfolio while learning innovative techniques to creating unique designs.  Essentials of production evolution, sales, and marketing are taught to assist you gain an agreement of the consumer culture in style design.

You'll graduate with not only strong communication, business organisation skills, and the ability to forecast industry trends, but y'all'll have adult your own artistic vision!

Make your statement on the world's track with a Available's Degree in Fashion Design from RMCAD.

FASHION Blueprint Kinesthesia

You'll be learning from faculty with a history of fashion and success in the world of mode design. They've worked side-by-side with some of the best and brightest in the industry. As a RMCAD fashion design educatee, y'all can relish immersing yourself in that aforementioned well of cognition and creativity.

Fashion Design

Get to know our Grads

Austyn Lewis

Form of 2021 / Style Blueprint

For incoming students to RMCAD and the Fashion Section, I give the advice of: say yeah.  Say yes to every opportunity that you lot can get.  Go for information technology fifty-fifty if its overwhelming and and so also ask questions and be bold.  Enquire if you tin do the crazy things.  They will say yep.

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Melissa Grando

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

What I love a lot about RMCAD is that they definitely prepared you for a lot of things.

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Mikela Greene

Class of 2021 / Fashion Blueprint

What I love virtually is that I got to do it. I was an online student and if information technology wasn't for the online program, I don't think I would accept been able to practice this.

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Amaya Leverette

Class of 2021 / Fashion Design

I am influenced by everything… I think that I can chronicle to anything and everyone. And so, I'm always willing to do something different.

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Christopher Sweetwood

Class of 2017 / Game Art

RMCAD played an of import step in my artistic development and my career. My instructors at RMCAD taught me the skills and software I employ on a daily basis in my profession. Alumni Services helped me get into contact with industry professionals helping me get my commencement in game art.

Irene Skupsky

Class of 2019 / Style Blueprint

I design for the powerful adult female who wears garments with more coverage to inspire her.

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Anna Vo

Class of 2019 / Mode Pattern

My only advice is: be confident and no thing what mistakes you made just keep going and you will go through it.

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TJ Howell

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

This is my final hoorah and then it'south very important that this kind of shows who I am equally a designer and what my aesthetic and who I am most importantly.

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Haley Long

Class of 2019 / Mode Design

What makes me proud to be a RMCAD graduate is the fact that I've been challenged so incredibly much here and that information technology'south actually been applicative exterior of RMCAD.

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Candace Feren

Class of 2019 / Fashion Blueprint

I'grand proud to be a RMCAD graduate because there'south so many amazing staff hither. They support you lot, challenge you and really push yous to get where you demand to exist.

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Mark Fitzsimmons

Course of 2018 / Fine Arts

RMCAD gave me the infinite to experiment. All of the instructors I had let me take not only what I wanted only what I needed from the class I was in.

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Gregory Hayes

Class of 2006 / Fine Arts

Ten years later I've developed a skill from my professor's random deed of kindness. That petty bottle was the start of me dripping paint.

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Jenny Morgan

Class of 2003 / Fine Arts , Illustration , Illustrative Pattern

RMCAD was really influential for me, the teachers I had were extremely impactful and I still keep in bear upon with them. I think a smaller school like RMCAD can be really beneficial in terms of making connections and keeping those connections.

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Kevin Tydlaska

Class of 2017 / Photography

"RMCAD did the biggest matter for me that every creative person needs to experience—it checked my ego…you lot're always going to learn, and someone always has something to teach you lot."

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Tya Alisa Anthony

Class of 2015 / Photography

My message is to exist a humanitarian, to pull our moral imagination dorsum to center.

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Daniel Chavez

Class of 2006 / Interior Design

A lot of my technical feel is 100% Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.

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Rebecca Kaufman

Class of 2002 / Interior Design

Rocky Mount was one of the first colleges I looked at ­– loved the programme, loved the expanse, and I never looked dorsum.

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Paul Sullivan

Class of 2003 / Illustration

There is a lot I learned at RMCAD that I use in my career every day.

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Lindsay Gruetzmacher

Class of 2010 / Illustration

RMCAD was keen because it gives you lot a guideline for how to piece of work in teams.  How to create artwork for someone else, not simply yourself.

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Phil Montaño

Form of 1988 / Graphic Design , Illustrative Design

You can come back hither and know they're going to have the curriculum and programs you need to succeed.

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Nick Spriggs

Class of 2003 / Graphic Design , Illustrative Design

I think often of my foundation work at RMCAD. Some of those lessons stay with me today.

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Daniyil Onufrishyn

Class of 2012 / Graphic Design , Illustrative Design

It [RMCAD] taught me a lot nigh being a designer and existence a better thinker – being more well-rounded.

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Bill Gillies

Course of 2012 / Graphic Design , Illustrative Pattern

I wanted to immerse myself in an environs that would teach me, and that was what RMCAD was offer.

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Dalton Frizzel

Class of 2016 / Fine Arts

That moment was when everybody started to empathise my work without me having to say anything, that was a moment where I started to experience like I was connecting with something.

Nina Caballero

Grade of 2017 / Art Pedagogy

I think what'southward really rewarding about teaching is when you finally see a person'due south confront light up.

Brian Nugent

Class of 2004 / Blitheness

What's really overnice about the RMCAD community is that it is a community. We're all good friends and we keep in contact. A lot of the people that I was hither with are working in the industry, so that says how of import those relationships are.

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