Design Care

With over 250 accredited art and design institutions, choosing the right fashion design or fashion merchandising school can be a bit overwhelming. However, taking the time to match your needs with a complimentary program might just improve your chances of getting in. Here’s why.

Knowing What to Look For The road to the right college always begins and ends with you. What is your ideal college environment? How close to or far from home do you want to be? Which is a bigger draw for you–the academic potential or the social environment? These are questions that need to be answered well before you pack your bags for school.  Read more...

It is very important for any designer product to intrigue customers. It should fulfill fantasies and not just a basic need. Today, consumers are more interested in projecting a particular image that will make them feel young and sophisticated – and this is what the fashion marketers take advantage of. Fashion marketers create a fantasy for selling those products to customers, through visual marketing campaigns, savvy advertising ideas or just by picking clothing from the designers, which they feel will be very popular among customers.  Read more...

The Internet has revolutionized education. Distance and online learning is one of the fastest growing segments of the educational field. If you are thinking of attending fashion school for a fashion merchandising degree or certificate, you may want to consider an online fashion design program. These online programs have evolved and are more comprehensive and sophisticated to meet student needs.

As a fashion merchandising student, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of fashion design and marketing. You’ll study the whole cycle of fashion creation, concentrating primarily on the manufacturing, buying, selling, and promotion of items to retail and other outlets. You’ll also learn about the actual textiles that create fabrics, and their manufacture.  Read more...