Your Future in Fashion Merchandising Can Start Here!
If your goal is a career in fashion, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Fashion Merchandising at the Academy - Seattle can help get you there. As a student in our Fashion Merchandising program, you can learn about business, marketing, management and sales principles used within the fashion industry as a means of developing concepts and refining merchandising skills.
The career-focused curriculum of our Fashion Merchandising degree program in Seattle can help you develop competent multitasking skills, as well as integrate conceptual and creative abilities with technical and sound business practices that help prepare you for a professional career in the fashion industry.
Are you a candidate for acceptance in our Fashion Merchandising Program?
As a result of completion of the Fashion Merchandising degree program, students should be able:
- Execute basic drawing fundamentals and explain how fashion flats are used by designers, manufacturers, retailers and merchandisers;
- Differentiate among the historical eras of fashion as a basis for understanding contemporary design and merchandising and the factors that influence them;
- Demonstrate knowledge of properties, use, and care of textiles;
- Design, conduct, and analyze market research;
- Employ merchandising principles to the planning, procurement, and selling of fashion goods;
- Evaluate and select appropriate vendors to source and produce products;
- Examine principles involved in the planning, pricing, promotion, and distribution of products and services within the fashion industry;
- Integrate basic computer graphic skills into the completion of visual boards for presentation;
- Create visual merchandise displays, demonstrating knowledge of the effects of color and lighting on consumer behavior;
- Plan and control inventories, assess store designs and locations, and exercise basic principles of finance and accounting;
- Explain consumer attitudes, beliefs, and buying habits, and how they contribute to the formation of marketing decisions;
- Design editorial, promotional, and marketing material used in the fashion industry; and
- Recommend store layout and merchandise presentation as a function of buying.
Graduates of this dynamic Fashion Merchandising degree program at International Academy of Design and Technology - Seattle can look forward to rewarding career opportunities in their chosen field. Want to learn more about becoming an Assistant Buyer, Merchandise Planner or Visual Merchandise Coordinator?
Contact us today for more information about our Fashion Merchandising degree program in Seattle.
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