College of DuPage: Fashion Design/ Fashion Merchandising/ Fashion
Entrepreneurship.
Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Department of Fashion Merchandising & Design

The College of DuPage fashion program is teaches students essential skills in fashion design, merchandising, and entrepreneurship. The department of fashion merchandising and design offers individuals a space where they can develop creativity, learn about aesthetics, and understand theoretical aspects of fashion design. Students cultivate these skills by taking classes across a variety of subjects, including clothing construction, pattern making, draping, tailoring, and CAD. Fashion majors gain an understanding of the impact and breadth of fashion through classes dealing with design principles, fashion illustration, motivation, marketing and merchandising, history of costume, and principles of textiles.