Fashion Design, Certificate | Online | The New School | New York City, United States
18 months
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About

Only Parsons, a top-ranked design school, can give you a 360-degree immersion in fashion design, trends, and techniques. This Fashion Design program at The New School supports your design vision while cultivating foundational technical skills, from concept development and sketching to sewing, construction, draping, patternmaking, and textile selection.

Overview

Gain experience with fashion trends, techniques, and design standards. Begin by completing one of the required courses below. This Fashion Design program from The New School must be completed within two years.

What You’ll Gain

  • The ability to create fashion sketches from model images and live models and create fashion flats and fashion illustrations
  • The skill to conduct creative research and apply it to concept development
  • Familiarity with all the tools and materials needed to drape muslin patterns, make flat patterns, and construct garments
  • Expertise in identifying various fabric types, yardage specifications, notions, trimmings, and sewing supplies

Why The New School?

The professional landscape as we’ve known it has changed dramatically, and ongoing learning is more important now than ever before. At The New School, we champion every student’s creativity and growth. By combining integrated disciplines with collaborative problem solving, we deliver an immersive, transformative learning experience.

Programme Structure

Courses include: 

  • Color Theory
  • Design Sketching 
  • Construction Techniques
  • Fashion Flats
  • Worth to Westwood: Fashion History
  • Fashion Styling
  • Fashion Entrepreneurship
  • Fashion Merchandising

Audience

Who Should Enroll

  • Anyone interested in the design side of the fashion industry
  • Creative individuals who want to use fabric and fashion design to develop and realize their vision
  • Fashion professionals seeking to advance their practice
  • Entrepreneurs learning about garment construction before launching their own companies

Key information

Duration

  • Full-time
    • 18 months
  • Part-time
    • 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Blended, Online
  • Proactive tutoring and support
  • Individual work/assignments (with online group discussions)

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Student insurance

Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:

  • Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
  • Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
  • Liability
  • Home contents and baggage
  • Accidents
  • Legal aid

We partnered with Aon to provide you with the best affordable student insurance, for a carefree experience away from home.

Get your student insurance now

Starting from €0.53/day, free cancellation any time.

Remember, countries and universities may have specific insurance requirements. To learn more about how student insurance work at The New School and/or in United States, please visit Student Insurance Portal.

Other requirements

General requirements

Who should enroll:

  • Anyone interested in the design side of the fashion industry
  • Creative individuals who want to use fabric and fashion design to develop and realize their vision
  • Fashion professionals seeking to advance their practice
  • Entrepreneurs learning about garment construction before launching their own companies

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    5013 USD/year
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 7520 USD for the full programme during 18 months.
  • National

    5013 USD/year
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 7520 USD for the full programme during 18 months.

Living costs for New York City

1819 - 3968 USD /month
Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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