Creative...original...innovative..imaginative.
| Textile and Apparel Design is a rewarding profession relating physical properties of textiles to the human need for fashionable and functional clothing and home accessories. This option combines the art of design, the science of chemistry and the perspective of history in a rich, challenging learning environment that prepares individuals for dynamic careers at the creative forefront of the textile industry. The department's main objective is to prepare students for successful careers in the global textile and apparel industries. |
Outcomes: What's in it for you?
With a degree in Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design, careers are possible in:- Apparel Designer
- Product Designer
- Training Specialist
- Entrepreneur
- CAD Professional
- Costume Designer
- Fiber Artist
- Textile Designer
- Technical Sales
Points of Difference
- Nationally ranked, award winning program approved by the American Collegiate Retail Association.
- Student honors and awards at juried design competitions.
- Nationally and internationally recognized faculty scholars in merchandising, textile science and apparel and textile design.
- Hands-on experiences through study tours, community service and internships with cooperating retailers, manufacturers and designers throughout the United States and abroad.
Facilities
The Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design is located in the Home Economics Building on East Campus. This facility contains:- Student advising center
- Computer labs with industry software
- Fully-equipped design studios
- Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery
- International Quilt Study Center
- Historic textile, ethnic dress and costume collection
Resources
The department includes fully equipped design and apparel studios, and digital studios equipped with cutting edge CAD® software including Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Lectra®, JacqCAD® and Sophis® programs. It houses an extensive historic textile and apparel study collection, the International Quilt Study Center, and the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, and fully equipped textile science labs
Designers and artists with national and international reputations in the textile and apparel fields are frequent subjects of invitational exhibitions in the gallery, and regularly conduct workshops or present lectures for students. These have included Jane Sauer, Tim Harding, Ana Lisa Headstrom, Stephen Stipleman, Radka Donnell, Chunghie Lee, Akemi Cohn and Ji Hee Kim. Students participate in national and local design competitions, and participate in the biennial student fashion performance.
Student Organizations
Montage is a student organization for all Textiles,Clothing and Design majors. Activities at the monthly meetings include guest speakers, planning for fashion shows and gallery exhibits, and fundraising. And, of course, social events that encourage close relationships between design, merchandising, and textile science majors.
Below you will find a short videos presenting highlights from the 2010 biennial Runway Show, "Evolved." The show, which took place in April 2010, presented the design work of twenty-four CEHS textile & apparel students.
The work was generated by Junior and Senior majors in the department's design program.. The garments were developed in response to an experimental design class led by Dr. Barbara Trout, in which students used unconventional materials and searched for new responses to body shape and garment structure.
Students were challenged to develop garments that examined the possibilities of segmentation and assemblage relative to the body. Students designed garments for a variety of markets including children's wear, denims, evening wear and outer wear. In working toward their show, students tracked industry trends and innovations, and then responded to these apparel design currents in the works that they created.
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