Online Fashion Design Degree
Online Bachelor of Fine Arts
Your Runway to Success
Working in the fashion industry takes more than just being a trendsetter with impeccable taste—fashion is art. It’s not just about designing clothing. It’s about creating something that makes a statement. Make your mark on the world’s runway and turn your passion for fashion styling and design into an exciting career at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.
Online Fashion Design Degree Program Overview
As a student in the Fashion Degree Online Program, you’ll develop your own fashion portfolio while learning innovative techniques to evolve your unique designs. This comprehensive online fashion degree program includes essentials of product development, textile design, sales, merchandising, and fashion marketing, to help you gain an understanding of the consumer culture in fashion design.
You’ll graduate with not only strong communication, business skills, and the ability to forecast industry trends, but you’ll also have developed your own artistic vision!
Online Fashion Design Program Highlights
Fashion Illustration
Draping + Patternmaking
Textiles + Materiality
CAD Design
Sustainable Design Thinking
Product Development + Management
Liberal Arts
The Liberal Arts curriculum is an exciting part of every student’s academic and creative journey at RMCAD. These courses provide the opportunity for students to engage with complex questions and ideas to develop critical thinking skills, a global consciousness, and awareness of art historical foundations that are essential for their intellectual, creative, and personal growth.
Global Consciousness
Critical Awareness
Information Literacy
Online Fashion Design Degree Requirements
RMCAD’s Fashion Degree Online curriculum is designed to bring form and function together, with key business and communication skills. You will turn your artistic vision into an innovative portfolio through a student-oriented experience and the convenience of distance learning.
Tech + Tools
RMCAD’s Fashion Design BFA Online Program features a comprehensive curriculum for the self-motivated and passionate student who wants to learn with the flexibility of a virtual setting. Providing students the opportunity to cultivate fashion fluency, an integrated approach to express creativity, and hone technical skills through creative draping and patternmaking approaches and computer-aided design. All while using the culture of fashion with a global context and impact. As a result of this fashion design degree online experience, you will learn the relevance of issues impacting the fashion industry, from social justice and diversity to ethical fashion practices and their environmental impact in order to expand diverse voices, visions and solutions.
Required Equipment
Students in RMCAD’s Online Fashion Design BFA Program will be charged a one-time mandatory equipment fee of $1650.00 in their first academic year. Below is the provided equipment:
- Juki DDL-8700 High-speed Single Needle Straight Lockstitch Industrial Sewing Machine
- Professional Female Dress Form with Collapsible Shoulders and Removable Arms
While in fashion courses, you will also be required to purchase an iPad and Apple Pencil and the apps required for specific classes.
Fashion Design Careers
As the world evolves, so does fashion, which provides many options for your future. A RMCAD Online Fashion Design Degree doesn’t leave you with one path to success, it gives you choices! With the skills developed in this e-learning bachelor’s degree program, our graduates have the opportunity to launch exciting careers in the following areas.
Potential Career Paths
- Fashion Design
- Technical Design
- CAD Design
- Textile Design
- Fabric + Trim Sourcing
- Patternmaking + Draping
- Production
- Product Development
- Fashion Styling
- Fashion Trend Forecasting
- Custom + Sample Sewing
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Fashion Design Faculty
You’ll be learning from faculty with a history of style and success in the world of fashion design. They’ve worked side-by-side with some of the best and brightest in the industry. As a RMCAD Fashion Design student, you can enjoy immersing yourself in that same well of knowledge and creativity.
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