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- Vocational school diploma, e.g. in textile design, typically
for two years. - Technical diploma, e.g. in costume design, textile
technician (three or four years, ending with baccalaureate
and technical school diploma). - Post-graduate diploma, e.g. in fashion and design.
- BA, e.g. in marketing, design.
- MA, e.g. in marketing, design.
In general, fashion related courses are offered at all levels:
at vocational schools, technical colleges, universities,
technical universities, academies of beaux arts, etc. all kinds
of qualifications are therefore available.
d. What fashion related subjects can students take in
your country (e.g. design, business, marketing, etc.) at
what level?In the UK, fashion related subjects are many and varied and
include: Fashion Design; Textile Design; Fashion Knitwear
Design; Knitted Textiles; Fashion & Textile Management;
Fashion Marketing & Branding; Fashion Communication &
Promotion; International Fashion Business; Fashion History
& Theory; Costume; Fashion and Textile Buying; and Retail
Management. Editor’s note: For a list of fashion related
courses available at bachelor’s level in the UK, please search
by course at [http://www.ucas.ac.uk/.]
In the United States fashion merchandising and apparel
design are the most common bachelors’ degrees.
The fashion merchandising degree prepares students
for a broad range of careers in merchandising, buying,
retail management, promotions and advertising, visual
merchandising, etc. There are a few programs in production
management, fiber/textile science, and textiles engineering
that carry over from when apparel and textile production
was more prevalent in the United States. Masters’ and
doctorate degrees have more variation in the subjects they
cover and/or what they are “named”. Masters’ degrees
over the years have tended to broadly cover the apparel
and textile fields with classes incorporating such subjects
as textile science, textile/costume history, social psychology
of dress, and others. More recently, masters’ degrees have
been developed or redesigned to address a more defined
specialization such as Masters in Retail Merchandising or
Textile Products Design and Marketing. Doctorate degrees
tend to be focused and require students to conduct
original research in a specialized area. However, the names
of these doctorate degrees generally do not reflect this
specialization (e.g. PhD in Textiles and Clothing).In The Netherlands, Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI)
for example, offers Fashion and Branding, Fashion
and Design, and Fashion and Management. The TMO
Hogeschool voor Modemanagement in Doorn offers
training for buyers, entrepreneurs, retail sales managers,
sales managers in the distributive trades, and production
managers. The fashion design & strategy department at
ArtEZ (Academy of Art and Design) in Arnhem offers a
master’s programme in vision and concept development.In Austria, depending on the type of school, the following
fashion related subjects are more or less prominent, but
available in all of them: Production Planning and Work
Organisation, Textile Technology, Design and Fashion
Illustration, Pattern Cutting, Grading, Modelling with
CAD, Technology and Clothing Machines, Workshop
and Manufacturing Technology, Fashion Design, Fashion
Technology, Textile Testing, Cutting lllustration, and Exercise
and Catwalk.PoLAND:- Design (costume, fashion, shoes, textiles, etc.)
- master’s, bachelor’s, technical college diploma.
- Business – MBA.
- Marketing – MA, BA, MBA.
- Textiles – MA, BA, technical college diploma.
e. How many years do students usually take to attain the
different qualifications on a fashion related course in
your country?In the UK, the most common length of time for a fashion
related bachelor’s degree is three years (and most
design students will have undertaken a one year general
foundation year after completing their A levels and before
doing a degree). Some British fashion related degrees are
four years long and include a year working in industry
(between end of second year and beginning of final year).
There are other routes though - please see answers to
question c.