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Fashion Design
Why study Fashion Design?
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Fashion designers set the trends
In reality, few other professions depend as much on keeping on top of the ever-changing popular opinion and watching what competitors produce. The life of a designer is intimately linked to tastes and sensibilities that change at a moment’s notice, and he or she must be able to capitalize on, or even better, influence those opinions. Fashion embodies the ideas and the attitudes of the time we live in and every generation of designers gets to remake the world through their designs.
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Understanding the business of fashion
Our fashion curriculum has a strong focus on the marketing, merchandising and business management of clothing and accessories. Students are taught how to interpret theoretical knowledge to predict various trends that affect the global industry. They learn to employ visual and theoretical research and analysis skills to identify the supply and demand trends, and to explore strategies for merchandising and marketing of apparel. Our internships help students to appreciate firsthand how the fashion industry works.
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VCUarts Qatar - a rigorous, rewarding, multi-cultural experience
All graduates complete a liberal arts and science core curriculum in addition to their major program; these courses enrich a student’s understanding of the world and help them frame their art and design studies into a broad intellectual context. High achieving students will also be invited to follow our Honors program to enhance their education.
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Curriculum
Degree requirement descriptions, including general education requirements, collateral requirements, Major requirements and open electives can be found at this link:
http://bulletin.vcu.edu/undergraduate/arts/school-arts-qatar/fashion-bfa-concentration-fashion-design/#degreerequirementstext
Semester plans can be found at this link:
http://bulletin.vcu.edu/undergraduate/arts/school-arts-qatar/fashion-bfa-concentration-fashion-design/#planofstudytext
Course descriptions can be found at this link:
http://bulletin.vcu.edu/undergraduate/arts/school-arts-qatar/fashion-bfa-concentration-fashion-design/#coursestext
Course description for Fashion merchandising (minor) can be found at this link:
http://bulletin.vcu.edu/undergraduate/arts/fashion-design-merchandising/fashion-minor/
Faculty
Alumni
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Selina Farooqui
The couture bug has bitten the country. These past few years, Doha has seen a dramatic transformation of the fashion industry, with designer labels making a conspicuous and visible impact on the landscape. In this highly competitive milieu, VCUarts Qatar alumna Selina Farooqui is weaving her own success story.
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Latifa Al Mudahki
On a busy street in central Doha lies a boutique showcasing design labels from Qatar and around the world. Launched in spring of 2011, the swish new outlet Moda Key in Freej Bin Mahmoud is what owner, general manager and VCUarts Qatar alumna Latifa Al Mudahki calls a fresh, chic venue for women.
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Ahmed El Sayed
Being one of only six male students at VCUarts Qatar, Ahmed El Sayed admits he did stand out, and being the only male student in the Fashion department when he began his studies in 2007, he did get spoilt a bit.
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Campus
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Our unique Materials Library offers a huge range of materials from across the world.
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Visit to VCUarts Qatar’s Fashion Design department by fashion entrepreneur and founder of designer fashion portal Net-a-Porter, Dame Nathalie Massenet.
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Visit by Indian-American fashion designer Naeem Khan to the VCUarts Qatar Fashion Design studios.
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Fieldtrips & Workshops
Opportunities
Internships
Internships are a great way for students to gain hands-on experience in a professional design environment. VCUarts Qatar’s internships form part of the core curriculum and all students are expected to undertake a 120-hour placement often in their Senior Year. Internships are generally unpaid but may lead to sponsorship or employment after graduation. All placements are managed by the faculty internship coordinator with contracts, reporting documents and timesheets to ensure the highest professional standards are maintained.
Here are just some of the corporations that have offered valuable internships to our Fashion Design students:
Akademics, Cacherel, Easton Pearson, Feral Childe, Integral Services Uniform Department, Isabel Toledo, Manish Arora, Maria Bonita, Natalie Chanin, Qatar Museums Authority, Rami Al Ali Designers, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sara’s Secrets, (formerly Caroline’s), Social Development Center, Versace, Vivienne Westwood.
Visiting Artists
Each year VCUarts Qatar welcomes visiting artists and designers to campus to share their expertise and experiences. Drawn from across the globe, these artists, designers, educators are highly accomplished and recognized within their respective design fields. They share their knowledge through lectures, conferences or specific workshops, broadening our students’ creative experiences and complementing our multi-cultural approach to design.
Here are just some of the visiting artists and designers who visited and helped our Fashion Design graduates:
Anne Marie Paltsou, Bongiwe Walaza, Chunghie Lee, DeeDee Gordon, Donna Campbell, Eric Gaskins, Eric Raisina, Feral Childe, Hebah Al Hasan, Ike Rust, Isabel Toledo, Jill Dumain, Manish Arora, Maria Bonita, Melanie McClintock, Sheikh Majed Al Sabah.