Illinois: The Heartland of Fashion Design

Illinois is the fashion center of the Midwest, and Chicago is the fashion center of Illinois. If you're looking for a great place to attend fashion design school, Illinois has top-notch schools upstate, downstate, and in-between.

Whether you avail yourself of the resources of the fashion industry in Chicago, or the retail hub of Schaumburg, you can't help but enhance your design school education and post-graduate job connections.

Along with fashion hubs Los Angeles and New York, Chicago, IL, has risen to its own prominence. Jennifer Lopez chose to launch her first World of JLO Shop in the city. Four major fashion design schools are located in the city's famous Loop, and many others dot the rest of the Chicago and the state of Illinois, providing a world of opportunity.

The Chicago Fashion Foundation helps designers and others succeed in their professional lives by providing routine updates on fashion design trends and fashion marketing data. In addition, the Chicago metro area hosts the second-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation, making it a great place to find employment in almost any industry.

You'll find plenty to support your fashion design school experience in Illinois. One design museum has more than 13,000 textiles on display. Fashion design students are astounded when they visit the Chicago Merchandise Mart with its 22 miles of corridors and 1.7 million square feet of fashion showrooms and boutiques--home to trade fairs and fashion design conferences. If you need more dazzle or design hints, wander through Chicago's famous Gold Coast, Michigan Avenue, and Magnificent Mile.

With so many educational and fashion opportunities, Illinois hs become oh-so-fashionable.