Our Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing programs work in tandem to provide students with a solid background in:
- Computer aided design software
- Fashion design of original garments
- Marketing
- Merchandising
- Pattern making
- Product development
- Sewing skills
- Sketching
- Textiles
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Apparel designers research new style trends and develop marketable designs for the ready-to-wear fashion industry.
Pattern makers create industrial paper patterns from sketches or original garments to be used in the mass production of clothing.
America’s Career Infonet and the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (2008-2009 edition) give detailed information about the skills, abilities, work activities and recommended education for:
According to America’s Career Infonet, these occupations offer the following average salaries across the nation:
| Job |
Hourly Rate |
Annual Salary |
Projected Growth Through 2016 |
| Art directors |
$34.77 |
$72,300 |
+13% in Texas |
| Fashion and apparel patternmakers |
$17.18 |
$35,700 |
-29% in Texas |
| Fashion designers |
$30.30 |
$62,800 |
+8% in Texas |
| Tailors, dressmakers and custom sewers |
$11.58 |
$24,100 |
+17% in Texas |