FASHION KNITWEAR DESIGN

The Fashion Knitwear Design Program provides specialized courses in knitwear design for fashion and apparel manufacturing industries. The curriculum is structured to provide principles of design and construction for full-fashion knitwear including: fashion illustration, pattern drafting, swatch development, knitwear construction, utilizing the hand loom and Stoll industrial knitting equipment, specification, and cost analysis.

What Our Students Learn

 In our program, students learn all aspects of fashion knitwear design, from design principles and historic and trend research to fashion illustration, swatch development, and construction of knit garments.

Why FIDM

More than 50% of the program incorporates traditional fashion design skills such as sketching, computer skills, and patternmaking. Fashion Knitwear Design students exhibit their portfolios and design collections in the 3rd floor Museum Promenade at the LA campus as part of the annual Textile Design Exhibit. In addition to knit technologies, students receive hands-on experience working at looms, learning how to weave, and experimenting with color in the dye lab. Fashion Knitwear Design instructors are industry professionals who bring years of real world experience to the classroom.