The day before yesterday, the Ministry of Education officially announced the addition of 1,673 new majors, including 24 new majors, and the revocation of 1,670 majors.
Although the Ministry of Education has not yet released which of the 1,670 majors are included, in terms of the major categories of art, there is one major that must not be able to run away:
Costume & Apparel Design.
According to statistics, during the five-year period from 2018 to 2022, a total of 70 clothing and apparel design majors in the country were revoked, ranking 3rd among all majors.
One of the main reasons for this phenomenon is the lack of practical opportunities for the clothing majors of many colleges and universities, resulting in a low employment rate of graduates.
Because of this, many students with a background in fashion design are considering changing their majors and starting over when they are going to graduate school/studying abroad.
However, changing majors is not a shortcut, after all, not every major welcomes students with a background in fashion design.
So if you don't want to "roll" in the field of fashion design, which tracks have better job prospects?
#1
Textile design
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As an interdisciplinary major of "fashion × video communication × materials", textile design has a lot of overlapping content with fashion design, so it has also become the first choice for fashion graduates to change majors.
For a long time, textile design has been mistaken by many people as a "low-end profession" that "engages in needlework, spinning and weaving, and entering the factory as a female worker".
However, the object of study of textile design is much more than that, and the focus is on the word "design".
In addition to our common clothing fabric design, including fibers, fabrics, colors, patterns, textures, weaving methods and textile structures, etc., are all questions that textile design students need to think about.
According to the use, textiles can be divided into three categories: clothing textiles, decorative textiles, and industrial product textiles.
Among them, clothing textiles are the most common and best understood, and they are also the fields that the discipline has referred to by the translated name "fabric design";
However, decorative materials such as interior soft furnishings, curtains and carpets, bedding, outdoor products, arts and crafts, although they do not belong to the category of fabric design, are still the research field of textiles;
Similarly, industrial product textiles such as roadbed fabrics, screens, gun clothing, coated fabrics, construction/sail textiles, agricultural textiles, etc., are also in the category of textile design.
It is no exaggeration to say that all kinds of "surfaces" we come into contact with in our lives are indispensable for textile design.
Therefore, from the perspective of employment, the employment direction of this major has also jumped out of the shackles of "clothing", interior design, furniture design, automotive interior design, industrial product design, etc., can become the employment field of textile design.
From the perspective of colleges and universities, most textile design in China is often combined with textile engineering, which is an engineering major, and it is difficult for students majoring in art to change majors to land.
In foreign countries, such as the Royal College of Art, the University of the Arts London, the University of Southampton, Heriot-Watt University, etc.;
The textile majors of New School University (Parsons School of Design) and the Fashion Institute of New York welcome students with artistic backgrounds to apply.
#2
Fashion illustration
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It is undeniable that in terms of hand-drawing ability, domestic art students are definitely killing foreign students, and fashion design is no exception.
But because of this, the talent of many students majoring in fashion design may be buried by the main course.
In fact, illustration and fashion often intersect, and this has led to a whole new profession:
Fashion images and illustrations, or fashion illustrations.
The goal of the Fashion Illustration major is to provide students with illustrations for fashion magazines, big-name posters, and brand videos.
With the younger consumers of fashion products, personalized fashion styles and expressions are more and more respected, and illustration is a key medium to fully express personality without losing the avant-garde and trendy sense.
In recent years, major fashion companies have also begun to use illustration as a means of publicity, and many of them have integrated illustration directly as a fashion element into their products.
Although many art schools have fashion illustration courses in their illustration majors, the University of the Arts London is currently the only one that makes it a separate major.
Among them, the undergraduate program is affiliated with the LCF Fashion Academy, which is a three-year academic system:
The first year focuses on introducing students to a variety of media and media to equip them with contemporary image-making skills, with a focus on the skills needed to effectively and appropriately locate, navigate, and communicate information and ideas;
In the second year, students will be required to produce fashion media works for fashion films and fashion marketing campaigns, and in the process, they will find their own personal visual language tonality and style.
In the third year, students will work with professionals or designers to complete the project and complete the thesis and graduation project.
The Master's programme is part of Central Saint Martins and is a one-year course that requires a portfolio of up to 20 pages and a 15-20 minute interview.
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#3
Fashion management
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It is no exaggeration to say that the fashion management major is one of the majors with the largest number of consultations in the art study abroad circle in recent years:
"No mandatory submission of portfolio", "Fashion cross-border business", "Corresponding fashion circle"...... These advantages are unmatched by other majors.
Students with a professional background in fashion design have an innate advantage in applying for a master's degree in fashion management.
In terms of curriculum, most fashion management majors mainly learn the analytical methods of the fashion industry in the early stage, interspersed with courses such as digital marketing, trend forecasting, sustainable design, etc., spanning design and business.
The middle and late stages are mainly business-oriented courses, which aim to cultivate students' fashion taste and thinking, such as retail strategy, creative development, sales strategy, global regional planning, etc., so that students can understand industry trends through understanding all aspects of the life cycle of fashion products.
In addition, almost all fashion management majors have more or less cooperative relationships with fashion brands, which is convenient for students to have a more concrete understanding of the industry in practice.
As for the direction of future career choice, the fashion management major is also full of various possibilities, in general, it can be divided into three major directions: buyer post, marketing post and editor post.
The specific positions include:
Fashion product buyers, business center buyers, international brand buyers, show operations, brand planning, business development, public relations maintenance, human resource management, fashion editing, etc.
The fashion management majors of different colleges and universities also correspond to different employment directions.
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