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Fashion Design AAS

Parsons' AAS Fashion Pattern program enables you to shift careers and motion into the fashion manufacture, turning your passion into a profession. You study the process, techniques, and linguistic communication of fashion design from concept to product, using ethical and sustainable methods. Y'all have the opportunity to blueprint womenswear, menswear, and accessories, learning everything from drawing, draping, patternmaking, and sewing to tailoring and haute couture. Graduates bring fresh perspectives to the manufacture's established firms and take even launched their own collections.
Program Highlights
- Wide and Rigorous Instruction
  
  Explore inquiry, fashion history, and structure techniques too as visual communication tools and software for ideating collections and documenting piece of work.
- Learn from Leaders
  
  Be mentored by Parsons' faculty of industry professionals, with class critiques and lectures by leading mode design practitioners.
- Launching Your Line
  
  Benefit from opportunities to showcase your work and your portfolio, which are promoted on a diverseness of platforms and presented during the annual Parsons Festival.
- Industry Access
  
  Develop your creative practice in projects. Past partners include Motorbus, Louis Vuitton, Under Armour, Swarovski, Norman Norrell, and Cristobal Balenciaga Museum.
- Applicant Profile
  
  The plan is most suitable for mature students with some college experience, an bookish or professional background in a field other than blueprint, and the desire to start a career in fashion design.
- Degree Associate of Applied Science (AAS)
- Format Full-fourth dimension or role-time, on campus
- Starting time term Fall, spring
- Credits 60
- Duration 2 years or less (depending on transfer credits)
Curriculum

The program's reputation for quality, industry relevance, originality, and comprehensiveness opens doors throughout the fashion industry. Electives give you opportunities to specialize in accessories, tailoring, textiles, knitwear, and many other areas.

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Career Paths

AAS Manner Blueprint alumni are leading innovation in sustainable fashion engineering, working in pattern studios, developing businesses, and building brands globally. Graduates have joined major companies such as Chanel, Theory, Calvin Klein, Eileen Fisher, Kate Spade, Urban Zen, Proenza Schouler, Tory Burch, and GAP. Other alumni — such as Blanca Rodriguez, Jay Godfrey, and Aimee Kestenberg — start their ain lines right out of the gate.

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Discover what our students, alumni, and faculty are doing in NYC and worldwide.

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Parsons faculty represent a broad range of expertise and are acknowledged every bit leading practitioners and scholars in their fields.

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- Internships
  
  New York City's thriving creative industry and cultural institutions are part of your Parsons education. Our Career Services Function is enmeshed in the art and blueprint industry and can aid y'all advance your career with industry-relevant internships.
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- Industry Engagement
  
  Connect to the organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs driving global creativity and commerce. In classes, internships, and extracurricular projects, yous gain marketable trouble solving skills in sectors ranging from government and nonprofits to tech and artistic industries.
  
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- Making & Academic Resources
  
  Equally a Parsons educatee, you bask access to all-encompassing resources including New School libraries, computer labs, athenaeum, and studios, along with Parsons' state-of-the-art Making Center, facilities offering a broad array of tools to back up your artistic and academic growth.
  
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- Fashion Design (BFA)
  
  Full-time undergraduate major (four years, 120 credits); best suited to offset-time college students. Culminates in a thesis and qualifies alumni for further graduate written report.
- Fashion Blueprint and Guild (MFA)
  
  Total-fourth dimension graduate program (two years, 60 credits); applicants must have a bachelor's degree in fashion design and a substantial portfolio for this highly selective plan.

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Undergraduates

To apply to any of our undergraduate programs (except the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Acquaintance of Applied Science programs) complete and submit the Common App online.

Undergraduate Adult Learners

To apply to any of our Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students and Parsons Associate of Applied Science programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

Graduates

To apply to whatever of our Master's, Doctoral, Professional person Studies Diploma, and Graduate Certificate programs, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

Fashion Design (Aas) Fashion Marketing (Aasohio