Fashion Design Program

Over twelve life-changing months, Blanche MacDonald Centre’s industry-forward curriculum and award-winning instructors will equip students with the tools, techniques and confidence to design fashion in the professional realm. Students will join a step-by-step journey of the design world that will inspire, empower and prepare them for a rewarding career in fashion. Students will learn the business inside out and immerse themself in the thrilling, challenging, messy and infinitely rewarding creative process. Learners will find their unique fashion voice and craft their very own design collection as they take their ideas from pencil and paper to pattern and muslin and, finally, to the runway.

At the culmination of a year of intense creative tour de force, student design vision will be unveiled at the Graduate Fashion Show. Under the spotlights of Vancouver’s premiere venues, publicists, event planners, models, hair stylists and makeup artists come together to create one of the most anticipated events of the year. Media professionals and industry insiders join friends, family and faculty to celebrate this glorious debut. This is student’s inauguration into the professional world of Fashion Design.

With no fashion stone left unturned, this Blanche MacDonald Centre program equips students with the most comprehensive design education possible, so that students are suited and booted to face any and every design challenge once they take the fashion world by storm.

What You’ll Learn

• Art and technology.
• Career preparation.
• Design collections.
• Fashion awareness.
• Fashion elements.
• Fashion history.
• Fashion illustration.
• Fashion promotion and marketing.
• Garment construction.
• Introduction to manufacturing.
• Pattern making.
• Portfolio presentation.
• Sewing labs.
• Textiles and fabrics.