Fashion is art. The fashion designer is the artist. The canvas? A world full of people looking for the right paint. To give the people what they want and satisfy your desire to express your artistic vision through fashion, the right fashion design school can be what puts you on the path to that beautiful thing that happens when a career and a passion come together.
Fashion Illustration
CAD Design Skills
Draping + Patternmaking
Sustainable Design Thinking
Textiles + Materiality
Product Development + Management
On-campus BFA Degree Requirements
RMCAD’s Fashion Design curriculum is designed to mesh the essential elements of form and function in fashion design with key business and communication skills, state-of-the-industry technology, and a focus on turning your artistic vision into an innovative portfolio.
* RMCAD offers classes year-round in both on-campus and online delivery formats. At RMCAD, we believe that online learning is an important part of the overall college learning experience. To provide students multiple scheduling options, diverse learning modalities, and experience in the virtual environment, all on-campus students are required to take part in online education.
RMCAD’s Fashion Design BFA Program features a comprehensive curriculum and provides 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. 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.
Students in RMCAD’s on-ground 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:
While in fashion courses, you will also be required to purchase an iPad/pencil and apps required for specific classes.
As the world evolves, so too does fashion, and it provides many options for your future. A RMCAD Fashion Design Degree doesn’t leave you with one path to success, it gives you choices! Our graduates have the opportunity to launch exciting careers all across the fashion arena.
Career possibilities:
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As a student in the Fashion Design Program, you’ll develop your own exceptional portfolio while learning innovative techniques to creating unique designs. Essentials of product development, sales, and marketing are taught 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 have developed your own artistic vision!
Make your statement on the world’s runway with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design from RMCAD.
Student Work
Class of 2021 / Interior Design
A lot of my professors were really good at giving us hands-on experience and I think it is really important that our professors have the experience and know what the field is actually like. My RMCAD education really helped me know how the design process really works from start to finish.
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
With my collection I wanted to make something a little bit more expressing. I like how the program helps you develop in different areas of the field in the industry.
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
I was influenced by women in power who were not afraid to be feminine and sexual with their clothing. I will be the first kid in my immediate family to graduate college. It’s really a big deal and it’s really exciting.
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
I found this school and this is awesome. I don’t have to move anywhere and it’s all online!
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
My hope is for the new generation! The hope that coming through the darkness, they grow and make a difference in their culture.
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
My best advice to Veterans that want to pursue their art degree is just to go for it! It’s kind of intimidating because art school is a whole different world and it kind of pushes you out of your comfort zone, but it’s all worth it!
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
We were all there to help challenge and push each other, because as this program grows and progresses.
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
Having the opportunity to design this senior collection has been amazing. The thing I love the most about being a Fashion Design student at RMCAD is the freedom to explore my interests and the tight-knit community really allowed me to develop genuine relationship with my instructors.
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
I think it was great the school let me have complete creative freedom in terms of discovering my aesthetic and exploring different avenues that I really wanted to tap into.
Watch Video >Class of 2022 / Fashion Design
What I love most about being a Fashion Design student at RMCAD is that it’s been a humbling experience to meet other creatives even outside the fashion program. I think we have a lot of world class creatives.
Watch Video >Class of 2021 / Fashion Design
For incoming students to RMCAD and the Fashion Department, I give the advice of: say yes. Say yes to every opportunity that you can get. Go for it even if its overwhelming and then also ask questions and be bold. Ask if you can do the crazy things. They will say yes.
Watch Video >Class of 2021 / Fashion Design
What I love a lot about RMCAD is that they definitely prepared you for a lot of things.
Watch Video >Class of 2021 / Fashion Design
What I love most is that I got to do it. I was an online student and if it wasn’t for the online program, I don’t think I would have been able to do this.
Watch Video >Class of 2021 / Fashion Design
I am influenced by everything… I think that I can relate to anything and anybody. So, I’m always willing to do something different.
Watch Video >Class of 2017 / Game Art
RMCAD played an important step in my artistic development and my career. My instructors at RMCAD taught me the skills and software I use on a daily basis in my profession. Alumni Services helped me get into contact with industry professionals helping me get my start in game art.
Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
I design for the powerful woman who wears garments with more coverage to inspire her.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
My only advice is: be confident and no matter what mistakes you made just keep going and you will go through it.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
This is my final hoorah so it’s very important that this kind of shows who I am as a designer and what my aesthetic and who I am most importantly.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
What makes me proud to be a RMCAD graduate is the fact that I’ve been challenged so incredibly much here and that it’s actually been applicable outside of RMCAD.
Watch Video >Class of 2019 / Fashion Design
I’m proud to be a RMCAD graduate because there’s so many amazing staff here. They support you, challenge you and really push you to get where you need to be.
Watch Video >Class of 2018 / Fine Arts
RMCAD gave me the space to experiment. All of the instructors I had let me take not only what I wanted but what I needed from the class I was in.
Watch Video >Class of 2006 / Fine Arts
Ten years later I’ve developed a skill from my professor’s random act of kindness. That little bottle was the start of me dripping paint.
Watch Video >Class of 2003 / Fine Arts, Illustration, Illustrative Design
RMCAD was really influential for me, the teachers I had were extremely impactful and I still keep in touch with them. I think a smaller school like RMCAD can be really beneficial in terms of making connections and keeping those connections.
Watch Video >Class of 2017 / Photography
“RMCAD did the biggest thing for me that every artist needs to experience—it checked my ego…you’re always going to learn, and someone always has something to teach you.”
Watch Video >Class of 2015 / Photography
My message is to be a humanitarian, to pull our moral imagination back to center.
Watch Video >Class of 2006 / Interior Design
A lot of my technical experience is 100% Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.
Watch Video >Class of 2002 / Interior Design
Rocky Mountain was one of the first colleges I looked at – loved the program, loved the area, and I never looked back.
Watch Video >Class of 2003 / Illustration
There is a lot I learned at RMCAD that I use in my career every day.
Watch Video >Class of 2010 / Illustration
RMCAD was great because it gives you a guideline for how to work in teams. How to create artwork for someone else, not just yourself.
Watch Video >Class of 1988 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
You can come back here and know they’re going to have the curriculum and programs you need to succeed.
Watch Video >Class of 2003 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
I think often of my foundation work at RMCAD. Some of those lessons stay with me today.
Watch Video >Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
It [RMCAD] taught me a lot about being a designer and being a better thinker – being more well-rounded.
Watch Video >Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design
I wanted to immerse myself in an environment that would teach me, and that was what RMCAD was offering.
Watch Video >Class of 2016 / Fine Arts
That moment was when everybody started to understand my work without me having to say anything, that was a moment where I started to feel like I was connecting with something.
Class of 2017 / Art Education
I think what’s really rewarding about teaching is when you finally see a person’s face light up.
Class of 2004 / Animation
What’s really nice about the RMCAD community is that it is a community. We’re all good friends and we keep in contact. A lot of the people that I was here with are working in the industry, so that says how important those relationships are.
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