Fashion Design (BFA)
What our students, alumni, and faculty are doing in Paris and worldwide
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Program Contact
Alexandra Helminger, Program Director
The BFA Fashion Design program immerses you in the thriving world of fashion innovation in Paris. With an exceptional range of historical and contemporary fashion houses and luxury brands, Paris is a historical laboratory for experimental and avant-garde fashion design. You familiarize yourself with French traditions of excellence while being trained in cutting-edge design methods. Through studio projects, technical and theoretical courses, unique partnerships with local companies, and internships, you acquire hands-on experience within the most dynamic fashion hub in the world.
Your BFA begins with the first-year curriculum, which serves as the academic foundation for all undergraduate programs at Parsons Paris. From your second year on, you learn to combine traditional techniques with experimental methods, leading to the creation of a final collection that reflects your own brand identity.
Students graduate with a diverse and complete portfolio and a thesis collection that allow them to apply for jobs in the fashion industry. Our graduates are prepared to pursue a variety of careers in the fashion fields, including fashion design, fashion styling, and fashion production.
Courses, projects, and faculty at Parsons Paris are closely integrated with industry and external partners, enabling you to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom to real-world challenges in creative business, nonprofit, government, and technology sectors.
To facilitate your creative growth and experimentation across all disciplines, Parsons Paris offers access to academic resources such as on-campus making and project facilities, tech and fashion research labs, and The New School’s digital libraries and archives.
Parsons Paris offers a unique opportunity to study in two of the world’s most creative cities. Studying at our academic centers in both Paris and New York broadens your practice through studio and liberal arts courses on campus and applied, hands-on experiential learning off campus.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
