AAS Fashion Design alumni, Shirley Ephraim, recently partnered with Swarovski Elements, for her Riviera Collection. In honor of the 2013 Festival De Cannes, the Riviera Collection premieres online with a mini jewelry film set to the score of renowned French DJ, Claude Challe’s “Je Nous Aime” and starring Czech-born model, Zuzana Riedlova. We wish Shirley [...]

Interview by Haruka Ue, Fashion Publishing Students at Parsons enjoy a wonderful studying environment and opportunities to see most talented people in the fashion industry, which also includes studying with other creative students who have zeal and talent to succeed. In the Fashion Industry Design class last semester, one of my peers wowed me with [...]

Not only does Jessie Cragg hold down a full time student load, in her studies in the AAS Fashion Design program (May 2013 graduate), she and her business partner, have launched a local manufacturing, leather accessories business called Texi Leather. And, they recently presented their ideas to the Clinton Global Initiative University. Jessie and her [...]

The School of Fashion invites BFA Sophomore level and third/ fourth semester AAS Fashion Design students  to participate in our first Drawing Quadrathlon on Saturday April 27th. Join Richard Rosenfeld, Tamara Albu and guest Neil Gilks on a one day live studio of idea- building, image- making, and navigational exploration of design through body + form. Upon completion, successful [...]

Are you interested in developing innovative, genre crossing 3D work with potential to be showcased in Feb 2013 to a public audience (maybe even during NYFW) ? Are you open to collaborating with others to produce something unlike anything ever seen before? In partnership with LV (Louis Vuitton) and Joffrey Ballet, the School of Fashion [...]

Att: All Photography Students! We’re working on the Parsons The New School For Design’s End Of Year Exhibition. And we would like to capture behind the scene shots as well as actual event shots. The opening event is May 11th from 6-9pm. However the behind the scenes shots will mainly take place on April 24, [...]

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) announced the nominees, honorees and host for the 2012 CFDA Fashion Awards on March 14, 2012, with CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg. The nominees for womenswear designer of the year, the biggest prize, are Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen for The Row, Jack McCollough (Alumni) and Lazaro Hernandez [...]

This is an advanced fashion course where students produce their own original designs. They go through the whole process: from original concept, to garment development, to finished garment(s). Students get an overview of the creation of a contemporary Fashion Accessory Collection. The collection begins with inspiration and ends with the creation of the finished collection. [...]

This course is designed for upper level students in Fashion Design. They learn how to translate their design concepts into an effective and powerful Fashion Portfolio.