Fashion Design

Joe’s Blackbook, a recruitment and consulting firm specializing in the fashion, retail, and beauty industries, recently announced that Julia Choi (’21 BFA Fashion Design) received one of two prestigious, $10,000 scholarships that it awards juniors in fashion design programs in the U.S.

Whether you love shopping, can’t stop sewing or you consider yourself a superfan of Project Runway, applying to fashion school can help you make your dreams of becoming a world-renowned fashion designer come true. But with so many phenomenal fashion schools out there, how can you even begin to choose? From assorted areas of study to impressive internship opportunities to close connections with the fashion industry, these schools offer everything a true fashionista could ever desire.

The Disney Design Challenge has returned for a new season, and the students in the fashion design program at Otis College of Art and Design are front and center. This year, the students have a whole new challenge: creating a holiday collection inspired by one of four Disney Princesses that will be sold at JCPenney. Check out the first episode from Disney Style below. 

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Fashion school students around the world are preparing to enter an industry that's rapidly changing. There are courses to pass, design prompts to ace, runway shows to prep for and professional connections to make. In our series, "Fashion School Diaries," those students give us a firsthand look into their day-to-day lives. Here, we meet Jinny Song, an Otis College of Art and Design class of 2018 fashion student, ahead of her student show.

Otis College of Art and Design staged its Annual Benefit and Fashion Show on campus for the first time on May 5, 2018, inviting Special Guest Jason Wu to a sold-out fashion show followed by an exclusive scholarship dinner at its newly-expanded Elaine and Bram Goldsmith campus in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles. Benefit Chair Shelley Reid and Otis College President Bruce Ferguson welcomed guests to the Fashion Show, noting the show falls on the eve of Otis College’s Centennial Year that begins in the 2018 to 2019 academic year.

“Everything that I dreamed of has happened,” says Sacramento native Joanna Rubalcaba (BFA Fashion Design ‘17), who was named Designer of the Year by the Fashion Design department at Otis College. “I was so honored and excited to get it,” she says, “because it meant that my teachers had noticed how hard I worked throughout the year.”

Students in Otis College's BFA Fashion Design program are gearing up for their spring mentor projects. Each year professional designers, acting as client and mentor, give students a design challenge to research and present sketch solutions.

Once selected, the student puts their work into production, using face-to-face time with the mentor during fittings to refine their concepts that will ultimately walk the runway at the college's Annual Scholarship Benefit and Fashion Show in May.