fashion and education

The fashion industry reaches around the world, with degree-earning opportunities that provide training on every continent in fashion design and retailing. There is a reciprocal relationship between the international fashion industry and educational training in the areas of fashion design and retailing.

In countries where design is celebrated, such as Italy, France, and England, there are fashion design schools. On the other hand we have locations such as China, India, and South Korea, with a multitude of apparel manufacturing sites which tend to be breeding grounds for training in technical and creative competencies.

Italy has more than twenty design and retailing academies and institutes scattered around the country: Florence, Milan, and Rome. Several academies offer programs of varying lengths for international students who choose to study fashion in Italy.

Paris is home to France's five premier learning institutions with programs in fashion design and retailing.

There are over 250 institutions of higher learning in the United States of America that include programs in fashion designs.

Design; Housing and Apparel; Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design; Merchandising and Hospitality Management represent more specific program orientation.

These are among the many terms and phrases to consider when you are searching for fashion design and retailing programs at the university level.

Most fashion designs courses last for around three years, including one year of working in the fashion industry. Other courses offer the chance to visit fashion houses abroad.

At the end of their final year most students produce a collection which is then show to buyers and prospective employers.