Knowledge is Power!

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

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.

Tuition:

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

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 ArtInstitutes

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.

Majors:

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.