Expand Your Skills, Talents and Knowledge

Is fashion your passion? If so, this major is tailor-made for you! Fashion design majors work side-by-side with talented, expert and caring faculty. You’ll study textile science, visual literacy, fashion illustration, fashion trends, and the cultural, psychological and social aspects of dress. 

With the latest technologies, you’ll work hands-on to design, create and display your own themed collection of original work. Throughout your undergraduate career, you’ll create pages for an online professional portfolio that you’ll produce as a senior capstone project—just in time for the job market.

In a curriculum deeply rooted in the liberal arts, you’ll expand your capacity for critical thinking, problem solving and visual communication. You’ll start your career ready for success in a fascinating industry.

As a Dominican University fashion design major, I’ve been able to learn how to sew, pattern, draft and create a cohesive collection for the fashion show during my senior year.”

Rhiannon Cassata
Dominican University Graduate

Learn by Doing—Then Do Even More

Practical experience is built into our fashion design curriculum. Our internships draw on the huge retail, cultural and corporate resources of Chicago—a great job market for fashion graduates. 

We make our connections your connections, so you can test-drive your dream job in the real world. Many internships lead directly to job offers after graduation; in a recent survey, 87% of employers said they would hire their Dominican interns if a full-time position were available. 

Seniors work together to produce our Spring Fashion Show, which presents the best student designs to industry professionals. You’ll not only gain professional exposure but also sharpen your problem-solving, events-planning and leadership skills.

Design a Career Tailored to Your Dreams

Fashion students gain hands-on, real-world experience with industry leaders by creating unique designs and showcasing them at our annual fashion show

I would definitely recommend students joining Dominican University’s fashion program because not only do they teach you everything you need to know, but they prepare you for when you graduate."

George McCray
Dominican University Graduate

Great Resources. Amazing Opportunities.

Explore all the ways you'll gain hands-on experience on campus and beyond.
 

Go Way Beyond the Classroom 

Our Community-Based Learning Program enables you to combine academic learning with effective, compassionate service to people in need—in the Chicago area and around the world. The program has been nationally recognized for excellence.

Through our Fashion Mentorship Program, you’ll meet accomplished industry professionals, including many graduates of our program. The board members make themselves available to review student portfolios and help to ensure that our curriculum evolves continually—like fashion itself.

Runway Ready

Students' work comes to life at our highly produced annual fashion show

At Dominican, Research Doesn’t Wait 

You can apply for grant funding to aid your creative work at Dominican. The university awards funding on a competitive basis that enables students to complete original research or creative work—like fashion design—or travel to academic and professional conferences across the U.S. It's all part of the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Investigations (URSCI) program, a distinctly Dominican initiative. URSCI also gives  you a chance to present your work at a campus expo.

Style Your Future

You’ll learn how to best showcase your creations to the world through portfolio-worthy photographs and artistic styling choices

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