Southern Comfort: Fashion Design School in Georgia

Imagine yourself in a 1.5-million square foot fashion showroom with breathtaking architecture and an air of excitement. It's Atlanta's Apparel Mart, your fashion touchstone, if you decide to pursue a fashion design degree in Georgia.

The rich multi-cultural heritage of Georgia, seen everywhere in its art galleries, museums, music venues, and aesthetic diversity, can't help but inspire your best designs. Perhaps the area will inspire you to design sportswear, since Georgia's temperate climate means year-round golf and tennis.

In Georgia, your choices of fashion design schools run the gamut from art colleges to technical institutes to major universities' consumer sciences programs. Want to engineer the world's next polymer? Or create cutting-edge fashion designs? Or develop tomorrow's textiles? You'll need a bachelor's degree for the more technical and consumer merchandising aspects of fashion design. You can even work towards a fashion master's degree or beyond.

If you're more hands-on than technical, you can take the aesthetic route to fashion with a two-year or four-year GA fashion design degree. In these programs, you'll lean pattern-making and tailoring, CAD and sketching, and fabrics and textiles, all while professionalizing your sense of style.

If you love Georgia, your fashion or textile design degree will be marketable right where you graduate. Whether you choose a job in Atlanta's thriving fashion import/export sector or opt for a management position in merchandising, you'll be able to follow the fashion finance path.

If, on the other hand, you're after a fashion design career, know that Georgia fashion design school grads work for the likes of Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, and Carolina Herrera. And that means the sky's the limit for Georgia fashion school grads.