Building on your sensibilities, skills, and knowledge,
pave your own way to becoming the world’s leading
owner and designer of your original brand.

Attaining the ability to “Create”, “Envision”, and “Manage” is essential for fashion designers.

The education goal of our fashion design course is to nurture “designers who can realize new intellectual property values”. After all, what are the abilities to achieve this goal? First, it’s “Create” for creating and molding. Understanding the essence of clothes is the foundation of design. Next, it’s “Envision” to imagine and generate ideas. It helps to transcend your ideas and your designs. Finally, it’s “Manage”- the ability to link up “Create” and “Envision” with considerations from the business viewpoint. In other words, it’s like the engine to realize all your designs as a business. This course aims to foster the three abilities above. The curriculum covers all details from creation to management. Let’s fly high into the world as fashion designers, based on the two years of learning in this course.

FASHION SHOW

The Fashion Design Course has nur tured a huge number of awardees in domestic and overseas competitions every year. They are graduates who work in world-famous brands or owner designers. The annual graduation show, which involves a careful and rigorous selection process, is also attracting attention from the fashion industry.

17th BFGU FW: FASHION SHOW

BFGU MAGAZINE

Contains various work created as “Final Research & Collection”. The pictures of each work are taken by professional photographers using professional hair and make-up artists and models, and the magazine is fully edited and produced. This is a full-scale collection of works, and some graduates have been contacted by fashion companies after their work was seen in these pages. BFGU MAGAZINE is released annually on the website. As well as exhibitions and competitions, the magazine is a serious chance to launch your own brand.

BFGU MAGAZINE

Many Prize Winners in Competitions

In the Fashion Design Course, graduates are encouraged, in addition to their assignments, to create their own works and enter competitions hosted by various groups and companies both domestic and overseas. The course has produced five Grand Prize winners of the SO-EN Award (hosted by the BUNKA Publishing Bureau), a special interest to those who learn the fashion design, and also produces multiple prize winners every year.

A collaboration research project between BFGU × VEST CO.,LTD.

We are conducting a joint research project with VEST CO.,LTD., a company specializing in the planning and production of apparel auxiliary materials. In this collaboration, students developed woven label designs based on their individual concepts, embracing free and unconventional ideas beyond traditional frameworks. VEST CO.,LTD. then realized the students’ designs. The original woven labels were subsequently used in the creation of works.

The Fashion Design Course offers a wide variety of subjects ranging from practical subjects designed to help students acquire knowledge and skills about fashion to management-related subjects linking design with business. Along with the lectures, students work on a research project with an aim to build their own brands in two years and learn how to give concrete shapes to their own concepts. In the first semesters of the first year and second year, they present their concepts. They will create 8 to 13 items in the first year and 11 to 16 items in the second year. ＊The subjects below may change.

Basic Research & Collection

Completing 8-13 works started in the previous semester and presenting them as “Completed Production Collection Exhibition”. In order to exhibit in full coordination based on the concept, students are going to learn about presentations, including external elements such as the composition of the booth, lighting, and portfolio.

Final Research & collection

As the culmination of their individual two-year creative journeys, each student produces 11 to 16 coordinated final works, along with a portfolio. These are reviewed by faculty and presented in a graduation show and exhibition format. Additionally, they are compiled and published as a visual presentation in the “BFGU MAGAZINE.” The production of these final works also incorporates collaborative research and industry-academia partnerships.

Nurturing Creativity Ⅱ

Cultivating individual worldviews, preferences, design characteristics, and expressive methods while enhancing creative abilities through unique perspectives and practical processes. Encourages exploration of new possibilities in form and expression, and develops the skills needed to effectively communicate intended design concepts.

Product Planning for Designer Brands

Students are able to understand how to plan products and acquire the ability to visualize brand design and product planning. Then, put their own brand plans into a portfolio.

AY 2025 Curriculum Subject List

FIRST YEAR SUBJECT

[Required]
• Basic Research & Collection
• Nurturing Creativity I
• Fashion Business Ideathon

[Elective]

• Advanced CAD Fashion Design
• Apparel CAD Skills
• Apparel 3DCAD I
• Apparel 3DCAD II
• Apparel Production Management
• Apparel & Textiles (Practical)
• Apparel Ergonomics
• Internship Program in Design
• Creative Draping
• Sustainable Fashion A
• Sustainable Fashion B
• Materials Theory
• Product Planning for Designer Brands
• Design Development
• Knitting Patterns & Design
• Aesthetics
• AI, Metaverse & Fashion
• Fashion Design & Society A
• Fashion Business Communication
• Fashion & Culture
• Materials and Design
• Structure and Design of Men’s Wear

FINAL YEAR SUBJECT

[Required]
• Nurturing Creativity II
• Final Research & Collection

[Elective]

• Computerized Knitting
• Intellectual Property Management
• Fashion Design & Society B
• Fashion Design and Product Direction
• Launching a Fashion Brand (Practical)