School of Fashion Program Brochure
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School of Fashion academyart.edu SCHOOL OF FASHION Contents Program Overview ...................................................5 What We Teach ......................................................... 7 Faculty .....................................................................11 Degree Options ..................................................... 15 Our Facilities ........................................................... 17 Student & Alumni Testimonials ........................... 19 Partnerships ......................................................... 23 Career Paths ......................................................... 25 Additional Learning Experiences ......................... 27 Awards and Accolades ......................................... 29 Online Education ................................................... 31 Academy Life ........................................................ 33 San Francisco ....................................................... 35 Athletics ................................................................ 37 Apply Today .......................................................... 39 3 SCHOOL OF FASHION Program Overview As a student at Academy of Art’s School of Fashion, you can go after the fashion career of your dreams. Aspiring designer? Learn to turn your fashion concepts into relevant, responsible, and beautiful work. More interested in the business of fashion? Future entrepreneurs thrive in our fashion-specific business and communications programs. FIND YOUR PLACE WHAT SETS US APART Academy of Art University’s School of Fashion • Our instructors have trained at fashion design offers degree options that span the fashion career houses like Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, spectrum—from design to the business and Oscar de la Renta, Vivienne Westwood, and more communications of fashion—you’ll gain a thorough • We are the first and only school in the United States knowledge of the industry as you prepare to to have an accredited fashion styling program become a part of it. • MFA and BFA students participate in national and international design and scholarship competitions You’ll also have the opportunity to debut • You’ll have access to equipment and resources just your collection at New York Fashion Week and like the top fashion houses at the annual Graduation Fashion Show in San • Our instructors are experts in fashion Francisco. With a commitment to providing industry merchandising, marketing, visual merchandising, experience to extend students’ education beyond and product development the classroom, each show provides BFA and MFA students with hands-on training and introduces their work to some of the most influential members of the fashion industry. academyart.edu 5 SCHOOL OF FASHION What We Teach The School of Fashion offers degree programs with two different focuses: fashion and textiles, and fashion business and communications. The fashion and textile focus offers degrees in Fashion, Costume, Knitwear, Textile, and Footwear and Accessory design. The business and communications focus offers degrees in Styling, Journalism, Marketing, Marketing & Brand Management, Merchandising, Merchandising & Management, Visual Merchandising and Product Development. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT EDITORIAL STYLING Students learn the fundamentals of product In this advanced course, you will develop fashion line development. Students research market and photo shoots and stories for your own magazine fashion trends, evaluate current businesses and and the School of Fashion’s in-house publication, research target customers to create product 180 Magazine. You will research various magazines’ collections for a brand. An emphasis is placed structures, aesthetics, and histories and then use on collaboration among designers, suppliers, mer- this information to pitch stories to media editors. chandisers, and business partners to evaluate and create successful product collections for a brand. academyart.edu FASHION DESIGN As a graduate student in fashion, textile, or knitwear design, you will work collaboratively to design and fabricate concept collections. This environment mirrors the experience of working as a team within a real-world fashion company or design house. FASHION JOURNALISM ADDITIONAL TOPICS In this hands-on course, you will participate in Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Styling, every aspect of the production process for print Costume Design, Textile Design, Childrenswear, and online magazines; including researching and Womenswear, Menswear, Digital Marketing, pitching stories, reporting, writing, art direction, Global Marketing, Brand Strategy, Beauty and social media, and photography. You will have Accessory Merchandising, Manufacturing and an opportunity to contribute content for the Sourcing, Store Operations, Trend Analysis, flagship180 Magazine and the School of Entrepreneurships, Fashion PR, and E-Commerce. Fashion’s blog, “Fashion School Daily.” 7 All are welcome “ here. From the very first day of class in 1929, our doors have been open to students from many different backgrounds and from every corner of the world. ” – President Dr. Elisa Stephens Creative visions come to life for the > 2018 Graduation Fashion Show in inspirational, sustainable collections. academyart.edu 9 School of Game Development SCHOOL OF FASHION Faculty Our instructors don’t just teach you about the fashion industry, they are the fashion industry. They are nationally recognized professionals who maintain careers on the leading edge of industry trends. They will challenge you to reach your creative potential. Simon Ungless Executive Director Simon Ungless collaborated with Alexander McQueen on the first ten collections shown in London and New York and personally introduced Sarah Burton, Creative Director of Alexander McQueen, to the late designer. His work experience covers Fashion Design, Textile Design, Forecasting, Brand Development, and Marketing for such clients as Givenchy, Paul Smith, and Versace. Gary Miller Jinah Oh Director, School of Fashion Director of Fashion Merchandising Gary Miller is a Menswear Fashion Director with Jinah Oh earned her M.B.A. in Marketing at Golden more than 16 years of experience in New York Gate University in San Francisco, as well as a B.S. in and London. Gary’s design scope encompasses Clothing and Textiles and a B.A. in Philosophy from building and maintaining a brand’s identity, initiating EWHA Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. With a start-up concept, reinvigorating an existing line, Escada Asia, she developed business and market and nurturing an ongoing successful brand. For many strategies, managed merchandising and buying for years, he worked as a Design Director for the Men’s multiple brands, and pioneered and initiated brick Sportswear division at Macy’s Merchandising and mortar and e-commerce channel development. Group in New York. Jayne Foster Iliana Ricketts Graduate Director Online Director Jayne Foster graduated from The Royal College Iliana received her MFA in Fashion Design from the of Art with a Masters in Womenswear. She has Academy in 1999. She launched her own line of tai- designed RTW collections for private label and lored women’s wear, ILYA, in 2002. Before becoming other various clients taking collections to New the Director of Online Fashion, Iliana worked as the York, London, and Paris. She has taught in London Creative Director of GGblue, a lifestyle and golf line where she managed the School of Art & Design sold in over 300 stores across the United States. and led the Fashion program. Jayne also earned a teaching degree from Greenwich University. 11 School of Game Development SCHOOL OF FASHION Faculty Top industry professionals teach a curriculum that provides world-of-fashion opportunities for graduates worldwide. Stephan Rabimov Flore Morton Director of Social Media Center Associate Director, School of Fashion & Fashion Journalism During her 20 years in the fashion industry, Flore Stephan Rabimov has 15 years of experience in Morton designed for Martin Margiela and Jean Digital and Print Publishing, Journalism, Social Paul Gaultier at Hermès women’s ready-to-wear Media, Public Relations, and Marketing. He has department in Paris. She holds a Bachelor of Fine lectured at Johns Hopkins University and at The Arts in Fashion Design from the École Supérieure Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology. He d’Arts Appliqués Duperré in Paris. Flore developed has been published in The New York Times Russia the only accredited Bachelor of Fine Art degree Beyond The Headlines Edition, Forbes International, program in Fashion Styling in the U.S., and is the The Huff Post, Buzzfeed,and NY Observer. fashion editor of 180 Magazine. Rhona MacKenzie Russell Clower Assistant Director of Textiles Online Assistant Director of Fashion Merchandising Rhona MacKenzie received her BA in Printed Textiles from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Russell Clower received his BFA in Illustration & Design. She worked for Eley Kishimoto as Print from Parsons School of Design. At San Francisco’s Studio Manager, and made prints for Guy Laroche, Wilkes Bashford Company, he was assistant visual Jil Sander, and Alexander McQueen. Her work has director, and later, creative director/director of been published in magazine such as Vogue (UK), ID special events. At Bebe, Clower was responsible Magazine, Fabrex, and International Textiles. for the visual merchandising of 128 stores as visual merchandising director and assistant art director. Robert Curry Jürgen Oeltjenbruns Associate Director