Fashion design schools teach necessary skills.
Students who study fashion design learn create garments and garment lines. Students who graduate from these programs have received hands-on experience in what it takes to pursue a career in fashion design, including creating their own fashion line. Texas fashion design schools are either a franchise of national schools or locally owned schools. Most of the schools offer degrees, but some only offer training in fashion design, with no admission requirements.
The Art Institute of Dallas
The Art Institute of Dallas fashion design program focuses on the skills required to pursue a career in fashion design, including patternmaking, traditional design skills, computer designing techniques, construction, sewing, illustration and design production. The school helps students identify trends, develop their own styles, develop interviewing techniques and learn network. Students receive an associate degree in fashion design upon completion, which will prepare students for entry-level jobs, including costume designer, fashion buyer or seamstress. The school also teaches students create their own fashion design portfolio.
The Art Institute of Dallas
8080 Park Lane, Suite 100
Dallas, TX 75231
214-692-8080
rnartinstitutes.edu
International Academy of Design and Technology San Antonio
The fashion design and merchandising training program at The International Academy of Design & Technology in San Antonio offers either an associate degree in applied science degree in fashion design and merchandising, or a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design. The program is a combination design and business program with concentrations in marketing, purchasing, merchandising and managing. Other emphases include fashion design history, trends, forecasting, promotions and media. Coursework includes drawing fundamentals, textiles, market research, principles of merchandising, pricing, distributing products, computer design, fashion displays, consumer research, layouts and inventory. Students who graduate from this program have the skills to pursue careers in fashion merchandising, with roles as production assistant, store manager, stylist or buyer.
International Academy of Design and Technology San Antonio
4511 Horizon Hill Boulevard
San Antonio, TX 78229rn210-530-9449
iadtsanantonio.com
Austin School of Fashion Design
The Austin School of Fashion Design does not offer degrees, grades or school credits, as it is simply a training program. There are no admission requirements. Programs include the Adult Fashion Design Program and the Children's Program for ages 8 to 16. Classes available in the adult program include sewing, patternmaking, draping, fashion illustration, pattern design, clothing line creation, marketing and costume design. Classes available in the children's program include sewing, illustration and patternmaking.
Austin School of Fashion Design
3216 South Congress AvernAustin, TX 78704
512-448-9636
asfdesigns.com
