Fashion Collection & Communication, MFA
*Starting Fall 2023
The MFA Fashion Collection + Communication program shapes fashion as an impactful means of communicating with and about the world. The pedagogy strengthens and fortifies students’ creative visions and design languages, highlighting both traditional methods of making and emerging design techniques. The MFA inspires students to form a conceptually rigorous practice that is in meaningful dialogue with critical inquiry in fashion and through trans-disciplinary engagement across Pratt Institute. Graduates of the program will redefine fashion practice as both craft and social critique.
*Starting Fall 2023
| Semester 1 | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| FASD-601 | State of Fashion I | 3 |
| FASD-610 | Studio Technologies | 6 |
| HMS-696A | Writing for Art and Design Practice | 1 |
| All Institute Elective | 3 | |
| Credits | 13 | |
| Semester 2 | ||
| FASD-620 | Exploratory Studio | 6 |
| FASD-602 | State of Fashion II | 3 |
| CP-601W | Contemplative Art Practice: Breath is The Mark Graduate Level | 1 |
| All Institute Elective | 6 | |
| Credits | 16 | |
| Semester 3 | ||
| FASD-770 | Engaging the World (*Summer semester course) | 6 |
| FASD-730 | Thesis I | 6 |
| FASD-703 | Fashion Statements | 3 |
| HMS-697A | 1 | |
| All Institute Elective | 3 | |
| Credits | 19 | |
| Semester 4 | ||
| FASD-740 | Thesis II | 6 |
| FASD-750 | The Book | 3 |
| All Institute Elective | 3 | |
| Credits | 12 | |
| Total Credits | 60 | |
*FASD-770 Engaging the World to be taken in the summer before semester 3 or the start of year 2.
1: Shape, define and communicate visionary frameworks and forms of messaging that will have a positive and influential impact on fashion practice and promote a diverse and inclusive creative industry.
2: Establish expertise in fashion thinking through an expression of personal creative vision by applying interdisciplinary research methods and an engagement with global perspectives.
3: Generate work that challenges the complex impacts of the systems of production and function of fashion from manufacturing and labor practices to economic systems.
4: Cultivate a holistic approach to material choices and ethically incorporate sustainable practices that address environmental issues and circularity.
5: Through research and studio-based practice develop and apply a methodology for creating a significant body of work that includes a diverse representation of identities and aesthetics.