FashionZest has listed the top 10 fashion schools from around the world. The list is not in any particular order.
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London, UK)
This school has an outstanding reputation for educating foundation, undergraduate, postgraduate and research students. Generations of internationally renowned artists, designers and performers – individuals whose work has defined or transformed our times – began their creative journeys at Central Saint Martins.
http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/
London College of Fashion (London, UK)
London College of Fashion is the only college in the UK to specialise in fashion education, research and consultancy. Many of their tutors combine teaching with their careers within the industry allowing them to pass on invaluable ‘insider’ knowledge to students, on the latest technologies, techniques and trends.
http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk
Royal College of Art (London, UK)
Located in the heart of London, the Royal College of Art is the most influential, wholly postgraduate university of art and design in the world. According to the most recent figures, 93% of the College’s graduates have gained employment at an appropriate professional level in their chosen specialist field, within a short time of their leaving the College.
http://www.rca.ac.uk/
ESMOD International (Paris, France)
ESMOD (l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts et techniques de la Mode) is the first fashion school established in France; founded in 1841. Today it is a school with 23 establishments worldwide in 15 countries which provides a degree in fashion design and tailoring.
http://www.esmod.com/
Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, USA)
Founded in 1944, the Fashion Institute of Technology is a selective college of art and design, business, and technology, of the State University of New York. FIT is an accredited institutional member of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and the Foundation for Interior Design Education Research.
http://www.fitnyc.edu/
Parsons the New School of Design (New York, USA)
Founded in 1896, Parsons has cultivated outstanding artists, designers, scholars, businesspeople, and community leaders for more than a century. Parsons has 10,200 undergraduate and graduate students on its Greenwich Village campus.
http://www.newschool.edu
Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp, Belgium)
The Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen) is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, painter to the Archduke Leopold and Don Juan of Austria.
http://www.antwerp-fashion.be/
Polimoda (Florence, Italy)
Polimoda started in 1986 as a joint project co-financed by the cities of Florence and Prato, along with entreprenurial associations and the collaboration of the Fashion Institute of Tecnhology, State University of New York.
http://www.polimoda.com/
Bunka Fashion College (Tokyo, Japan)
Namiki Dressmaking School, the predecessor of the present Bunka Fashion College, was founded in 1919 as a small dressmaking school for girls. In 1923, it became the first authorized vocational college of fashion. In 1936, the school changed its name to Bunka Fashion College and began to publishing So-en, Japan’s first fashion magazine.
http://www.bunka-fc.ac.jp
La Salle College (Montreal, Canada)
Montreal’s LaSalle College, established in 1959, is the largest private bilingual technical college in Canada and is accredited by the Quebec government. The college offers two year intensive training and three year regular training, as well as specialised training programs lasting from 4 to 16 months.
http://www.collegelasalle.com/
Other great fashion schools in the United States:
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), founded in 1877 in Providence, RI, is a vibrant community of artists and designers that includes 2,200 students from around the world, approximately 350 faculty and curators, and 400 staff members.
http://www.risd.edu/
Massachusetts College of Art
MassArt is a publicly-funded college of visual and applied art, founded in 1873. It is one of the oldest art schools, the only publicly-funded free-standing art school in the United States, and was the first art college in the United States to grant an artistic degree.
http://www.massart.edu/
California College of Arts
Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (CCA) is noted for the interdisciplinarity and breadth of its programs. It offers studies in 20 undergraduate and seven graduate majors and currently enrolls 1,740 full-time students.
http://www.cca.edu/
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