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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she intends to go into fashion, she needs to start developing sewing skills NOW. When she gets there, she will find that most of the people in her program can sew really, REALLY well. She is going to be behind if she doesn't have good sewing skills. She needs to take all of the classes that she can find in this and she needs to start designing and sewing things NOW.

Exactly! She needs to start sewing clothing that she never plans to wear. Learn how to make your own patterns. You need to know how garments are constructed.

seamstress?
Children in 3rd world countries sow our clothes

So I know this will be hard for you to understand, but the skill of the craft allows better expression of the design. To fully express an idea, you must have the skills to make it. If your seams are shitty, you can't draw, do not know how to make it, do not understand the materials, your project will not meet a professional standard and will not be considered. Think of being an English and your final paper is full of grammatical and spelling errors, paragraphs are randomly, etc. Believe it or not, the design profession has professional standards. That is reall what they teach at these school- how to use line weights, what symbols mean what, when to use a section, etc.
A female profession once said to me, being able to draw well is like being a blue eyed, big breasted, blonde haired woman in a room of men. LOL

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she intends to go into fashion, she needs to start developing sewing skills NOW. When she gets there, she will find that most of the people in her program can sew really, REALLY well. She is going to be behind if she doesn't have good sewing skills. She needs to take all of the classes that she can find in this and she needs to start designing and sewing things NOW.

Exactly! She needs to start sewing clothing that she never plans to wear. Learn how to make your own patterns. You need to know how garments are constructed.

seamstress?
Children in 3rd world countries sow our clothes

I'm a little confused because Parson's is a part of the New School, which also has the Eugene Lang School of Liberal Arts. You can actually create your own degree. My DS is looking at it to get a Business Degree from Lang with a Minor in Design from Parson's.

Anonymous wrote:If she intends to go into fashion, she needs to start developing sewing skills NOW. When she gets there, she will find that most of the people in her program can sew really, REALLY well. She is going to be behind if she doesn't have good sewing skills. She needs to take all of the classes that she can find in this and she needs to start designing and sewing things NOW.

Exactly! She needs to start sewing clothing that she never plans to wear. Learn how to make your own patterns. You need to know how garments are constructed.

Brown and RISD has a joint program. You have to be accepted to both schools to qualify. Unfortunately, the acceptance rate is 2%. It's also a 5 year program.

I graduated from Pratt. Became a magazine/publications designer. Later expanded into collateral, identities, exhibits, illustration etc. Working in DC for PR firm, salary as Creative Director $ 220,000 a year before bonuses so, that's whats a degree in Fine Arts could get her - if that part of the design world appeals to her.

Reviving this thread. Where are your DD/DS going this Fall (Fine Art Majors)?

My neighbor's daughter attended Virginia Tech. She went straight from graduation to New York as a buyer for J Crew. Knowledge of spreadsheets is important, as is forecasting. Fashion is a business.

Also check out SCAD http://www.scad.edu/locations ; DD friend will be attending in the fall.

I think they can study fashion at a liberal arts college, and your daughter would have more choices there if she ended up changing her major.

Anonymous wrote:For the PP mentioning daughter interested in Fashion and Math try Industrial Design at an art school. RISD has an ID department.

OP here. I will investigate this, thanks. We did visit RISD last summer and DD hates the location. I will check their program out though.