Fashion Education Profile: Academy of Art University

School Name: The Academy of Art University - School of Fashion

School Motto: "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening ."
- Coco Chanel

Potential Careers: Fashion Designer, Product Manager, Pattern Maker, Textile Designer, Forecaster, Knitwear Designer, Knitwear Accessory Designer, Fashion Buyer, Store Manager, Store Planner, Product Developer.

Facilities: The School of Fashion Design, located a few blocks from downtown San Francisco and Union Square, houses four areas of specialization: Fashion Design for Women's wear, Men's wear and Children's wear, Textile design, Knitwear design and Fashion Merchandising and Marketing.

Facilities include 10-yard textile repeating print tables, silk screens, Industrial Heat transfer Press, Yardage steamer, a Vacuum table, and single harness-weaving looms.

The department also provides 2 Stoll America Industrial Knitting production machines, 16 single bed and 10 double bed knitting machines, 2 industrial linkers and 2 domestic linkers.

Degrees Offered: Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Master of Fine Arts (MFA) and Personal Enrichment (Continuing Art Education).

Locations: San Francisco and Online.