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Fashion Technologies Program

Fashion Technologies graduates are employed in all areas of the fashion industry. This includes areas as diverse as fashion design, fashion editing, visual merchandising and display, advertising, marketing, production supervision and transportation interiors.

Rendering apparel design or creating textile print and weave designs requires competency in artistic methods. Mathematics is needed at the design level with the use of computer-assisted design. Fashionable products also incorporate innovations in computer-aided manufacturing techniques. Science is used to develop both high performance synthetic fibers for textiles and new textiles structures.

1252: Apparel Merchandising and Design Technology Associate in Applied Science Degree

This program prepares students to promote product lines/brands and organize promotional campaigns at the wholesale level to attract retailer interest, wholesale purchasing, and supply contacts and perform operations connected with the distribution and sale of apparel and accessories: includes instruction in wholesaling, wholesale advertising, selling and customer relations, retailing, apparel technologies, distribution, customer sales and service skills, and principles of consumer research and sales forecasting. The Associate in Applied Science degree provides students with an option for a career or the requisite foundation for transfer to a four-year college or university.

1205: Apparel Merchandising and Design Technology Certificate of Achievement

Merchandise displayers, or visual merchandisers, plan and erect commercial displays such as those in windows and interiors of retail stores or at trade exhibitions. Those who would work on building exteriors erect major store decorations, including building and window displays, and spot lighting. Those who design store interiors, outfit store departments, arrange table displays, and dress mannequins. In large retail chains, store layouts typically are designed corporately through a central design department. To retain the chain's visual identity and ensure that a particular image or theme is promoted in each store, designs are distributed to individual stores by e-mail, downloaded to computers equipped with the appropriate design software, and adapted to meet individual store size and dimension requirements.

1056: Apparel Merchandising and Design Technology Certificate of Completion

This program prepares individuals to apply artistic principles and techniques to the merchandising of commercial fashions, apparel, and accessories, and the management of fashion development projects. Instruction includes apparel design; accessories design; the design of men's, women's, and children's wear; computer assisted design and manufacturing; concept planning; designing specific materials; labor cost and analysis; fabric art and printing; and the principles of management and operations in the fashion industry.

1290: Apparel Production Technology Certificate of Completion

The Apparel Production program for fashion related industries focuses on the design elements, development, and production of textile products and related processes and systems. It includes instruction in functional and aesthetic design, commercial sewing, production processes, planning, estimating, and quality assessment. Students may gain hands-on experience in all aspects of the fashion related production process in a supervised fashion internship. Students with this certificate of completion may find entry-level employment in various capacities from textile and apparel related retailing to fashion industry related production jobs; or students may continue their career education by transferring to a four-year institution or by completing course requirements for a certificate of achievement or an associate of applied science degree.

Curriculum Information - Fashion Technologies Program

To view degree and certificate requirements click on the curriculum code below.

Course Offerings

Many of the courses listed below are offered at LCC throughout the academic year and can be taken to upgrade current skills or fulfill degree and certificate requirements. Visit the Course Schedule and Registration page for information pertaining to courses available during a particular semester.

View Fashion Technologies (FASH) Course Descriptions

FASH 100 Fashion Sketching
FASH 101 Special Topics in the Fashion Industry
FASH 110 Computer Aided Design & Color
FASH 115 Wedding Planning - Under consideration for curricular adjustment
FASH 120 Introduction to Fashion Industry
FASH 125 Apparel Construction I - Under consideration for curricular adjustment
FASH 127 Apparel Construction II - Under consideration for curricular adjustment
FASH 130 Apparel Analysis and Selection
FASH 144 Visual Merchandising & Display
FASH 150 Apparel and Textile Design
FASH 230 Costume History
FASH 250 Adv Computer Aided Textile/Apparel Design
FASH 260 Fashion Merchandising Planning & Control
FASH 263 Fashion Industry Internship
FASH 270 Fashion Portfolio
FASH 275 Directed Study in Fashion

Career Facts - Fashion Technologies Program

Fashion is -
A product that is desired and used for a period of time by a large group of people, and then discarded and replaced by different and newer fashionable products. Fashionable apparel and textiles are unique compared to other manufactured products (cars, for example), because they are influenced by contemporary art forms like popular music, as well as major visual art movements (such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Abstract Expressionism).

What types of skills are required?
Rendering apparel design or creating textile print and weave designs requires competency in artistic methods. Mathematics is found at the design level with the use of computer assisted design. Fashionable products also incorporate innovations in computer aided manufacturing techniques. And science is used to develop both high-performance synthetic fibers for textiles and new textile structures.

Careers in Fashion:
Fashion Manufacturing
Design and Merchandising
Pattern-making
Production
Marketing
Marketing
Copywriters
Artists
Visual Merchandising Designers
Special Events Coordinator
Retailing
Merchandising
Management
Buyer
Store line operations
Textiles
Fiber & Fabric Development
Textile Design and Merchandising
Production
Marketing

Where are they employed?
Beginning a career in fashion is best obtained through an internship or apprenticeship while completing your education.

What degrees are available?
There are four options of competition for Fashion Technologies. The first is a 25 credit Certificate of Completion (C. C.) in Fashion Technologies, which prepares students for immediate employment in the Retail Market. New for Fall of 2006 is a 21 credit Certificate of Completion in Apparel Production which focuses on design, development, and production of textile products and related processes and systems. Alternatively, students may choose to transfer at this level to a higher institution of learning for baccalaureate degree. The third option is a 37 credit Certificate of Achievement (C. A.) in Fashion Technologies, with an emphasis in Visual Merchandising and Display. The fourth option is an Associate Applied Science (A. A. S.) Degree, Fashion Technologies, which has two tracks, one for students pursuing a career in Visual Merchandising and one for students interested in Fashion Technologies/Production. For those interested in pursuing a bachelor's degree, after the A. A. S. degree, Lansing Community Colleges Technologies Careers Programs have an Articulation Agreement with: Sienna Heights College, Northwood University, and Baker College.

What is the average salary?
Careers in the Fashion Industry vary due to more than 50% of the designers and other related fields being self-employed or working free-lance. Fashion designers salary range from $31,500 to $105,280 in the United States; with Michigan averaging $44,000.

Faculty and Staff - Fashion Technologies Program
Brita V. Brookes Program Director	brooksb7@lcc.edu	(517) 483-1321
Sydney Glasscoe Lead Support	glasscos@lcc.edu	(517) 483-5338
Christine Conner Professor and Lead Faculty	conne4@lcc.edu
Rebecca Clark Faculty	clarkr17@lcc.edu
Joann Collins Faculty	collinj9@lcc.edu
Susan DeKoninck Faculty	dekonins@lcc.edu
Shermane Fouche Faculty	fouchs@lcc.edu
Daniel Parrotta Faculty	parrod@lcc.edu
Shani Ramsey Faculty	ramseys2@lcc.edu	(517) 483-1336
Denise Shaver Faculty	shaverd@lcc.edu
Toni Stoddard Faculty	thelt14@lcc.edu
Anne Wojtikowski Faculty	mirosa@lcc.edu

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