In the competitive world of the fashion industry it does not
just take your love of fashion and your creativity to make as a big top
designer now a days. You have to have experience and some sort of credibility
that you have the knowledge to succeed in what you are pursuing. There are
fashion designers who have made a huge name for themselves without having an
educational background such as Ralph Lauren, Diane Von Furstenberg, and Marc Jacobs just to name a few. These designers are one of the most successful
designers in the industry today. We may not all be as fortunate as them to have
the opportunity to succeed without any fashion experience, but with this career
field being so cut throat we all have to start at somewhere. A definite way to
start is to attend a fashion school to gain experience and to fully learn about
what it takes to make it.
Are you feeling a bit ambiguous about which
school to attend to further your career in fashion?
-Here is a
list of schools you can chose from:
FIDM
(Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising) is specialized and dedicated
to educating students for fashion, graphics, interior design, and entertainment
industries etc. FIDM works with students to achieve their goals and help to obtain
their choice of career jobs. They are small enough to know their students
names, but big enough to have connections to help reach their dreams. FIDM has
four locations within California; Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and
Irvine. FIDM covers several majors that students can be interested in.
Majors:
-Advanced
fashion design, apparel industry management, beauty industry merchandising and
marketing, business management, digital media, fashion design, footwear design,
graphic design, interiors design are among the few majors that are listed.
There are about ten more majors that are also listed on the FIDM website.
How to
apply?
1.
Talk
to an advisor
2.
Send
in ad official transcript from high school/secondary school or colleges/
Universities
3.
Three
recommendations from teachers counselors or employees
4.
Admissions
essay (2 page maximum)
5.
Portfolio
and Entrance project.
6.
Application
fee
You must
complete these requirements. To learn more visit their website under admissions
and how to apply.
You can
find out about tuition on their website by checking by which major. Fashion
schools are pretty known to be really expensive but there are financial aid and
scholarship opportunities you can apply for.
Academy of
Art University is located in the heart of San Francisco. Just like many other
fashion schools, their goal is to help you reach your dreams as a successful
designer. It is the largest private school of art and design in the united
states.
Majors:
Some of the majors
Academy of Art University offers are: acting, advertsing, animation and visual
effects, architecture, art education, fashion, fine art, multimedia
communications and photography are just some of the majors they offer. To learn
more you can visit their website
How to apply?
Applying
is simple!
1.
Complete
an academy of Art university application form
2.
Turn
in application through mail or online. (Application fee is $100)
Visit
their website to follow step by step instructions and to learn more about
admissions and when is the recommended to apply.
Tuition:
There are
scholarship and financial opportunity that you can apply for.
The Art
Institute’s mission is to give you the education, skills and you to fulfill
your career. With 45 campuses and an impressive contacts list, The Art
Institute will give the tools to prepare you for a bright future.
The Art
Institutes offers and impressive list of design and fashion majors to chose
from
-Graphic
design
-Interior
design
-Advertising
-Fashion
design
-Fashion
management
How to
Apply?
-You can conveniently
apply online by picking location of the school and design major.
School is
the definite way to build and start off your career to entering any field you
would like to be a part of in the fashion industry. There are plenty of schools to chose from
like FIDM, Academy of Art Uiversity, and The Art Institute as I mentioned. I chose to discuss these three schools because I felt that they are
the ones who have an impressive reputation, they all have campuses in the Bay Area, and I have heard a lot of good things about these schools.
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