Fashion, Body and Garment - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Fashion, Body and Garment from School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a Campus Master Fashion degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. Broadly conceived, the field of fashion is a discipline informed by the changing cultural, psychological, and economic milieu, and in turn, one that shapes the larger social structure. SAIC's Master of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment graduate program seeks to provide a creative and intellectual context in which the nature and potentiality of fashion is closely examined and reimagined. Uniquely situated within a vibrant contemporary school of art and design, this program builds on the connections and relationships between art and fashion that have been evolving in the past century, and that reach an unprecedented level in contemporary practices today. Fashion is a dynamic interaction of culture, lifestyle, and commerce, with global forces constantly challenging the aesthetic and material landscape in which designers and artists engage. Today it is ideas and concepts that carry any product, while the product must embody an experience and a lifestyle. Grounding individuals in their personal creative motivation, and strengthening the context of their work through critical, theoretical, and practical studies, SAIC cultivates graduates who are highly sensitized, responsive fashion innovators. Through a combination of dedicated design studios, topical seminars, self-directed research, technical labs, design history and theory courses, and a wide range of elective options such as performance, film, new media, writing or sculpture, students are able to explore a breadth of possibilities, yet achieve an in-depth focus within their individual practice. The main component of the program, the Fashion Design Studio taken each semester, provides a place for an expansive investigation of fashion , body and garment. Beginning at the most intimate level, the first semester examines the relationships of garment as skin or second skin. The studios then progressively provide a space for a deeper individual investigation of fashion within the broader context of community, sustainability, technology, and the industry. Four electives taken in the final year allow students to finely hone their interests and practice, and may be utilized to support a more interdisciplinary practice. Issues in professional practice are built into the entire curriculum, and supplemented by visiting designers from both the fashion industry and related fields. Each year of the two-year program is devoted to a final, distilled collection or body of work that is exhibited as appropriate to the form. Fashion, Body and Garment graduate students are also expected to support their work with thesis documentation in various media. SAIC's fashion alumni include such notable designers as Halston, Cynthia Rowley, Lawrence Steele, J. Morgan Puett, Eunwha, Maria Pinto, Gary Graham, and Matthew Ames. SAIC graduates hold senior design positions in firms as versatile as Yeolee, Jones New York, Levi's, Nike, Charles Chang Lima, and Tommy Hilfiger, and design for Anna Sui, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Eunwha, Betsey Johnson, Triple5Soul, and Moschino. Upon graduating, many have chosen to intern for international houses such as Victor & Rolf, Alexander McQueen, Wendy & Jim, Castelbajac, threeASFOUR, or William Ivey Long. View more details on School of the Art Institute of Chicago . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Fashion courses.