New York Fashion Design Schools

New York School of Design

• Originally established in 2005, the New York School of Design offers accelerated, yet fully comprehensive, educational programs for those seeking a career in the fashion industry. A typical training period lasts approximately six months, and includes a variety of career-minded courses with lectures, practice labs, and career tours. Prospective students must have a high school diploma, a GED or have passed the SLE (Scholastic Level Exam). The extensive list of courses includes sewing, pattern making, merchandising strategies, and fashion flats hand drawing. Each student at the New York School of Design is partnered with a faculty adviser, who helps the student select classes based on individual career goals.

  New York School of Design
  45 West 34th Street
  Suite 501
  New York, NY 10001
  212-244-8882
  nyschoolofdesign.com

Fashion Institute of Technology

• With both undergraduate and graduate programs available, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) offers students a wide variety of design-related degrees and courses of study. Fashion design is one of the three original programs offered when FIT was originally founded, in 1944. Fashion design students are instructed in the areas of sewing, draping, pattern making, and computer-aided design. Each year, students put together the annual FIT runway show, which often welcomes some of the fashion-industry's most influential individuals as audience members. Students also frequently secure impressive internships; past student internships have been with Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren, among others.

  Fashion Institute of Technology
  227 West 27th Street
  New York City 10001
  212-217-7999
  fitnyc.edu

The New School

• Parsons The New School for Design, founded in 1896, has produced a number of world-recognized fashion designers and industry greats. The list of notable alumni includes Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Tom Ford and Narciso Rodriguez. Programs of study and degrees offered are Fashion Design, Fashion Marketing, Fashion Design and Fashion Design and Society. Students are instructed in the fundamentals of fashion design and construction, as well as in areas like fashion marketing and merchandising.

  The New School
  66 West 12th Street
  New York, NY 10011
  212-229-8933
  newschool.edu