PARSONS BFA FASHION DESIGN 2026

Forward thinking, innovative design program, the BFA Fashion Design program has trained six generations of designers who have shaped the global industry. Employing design thinking and creative problem-solving strategies, students explore form, silhouette, material, and process — including social and environmental imperatives — to create beautiful, sustainable, responsibly produced fashion for a complex and evolving field. By examining advanced social theoretical and contextual applications of fashion design, students are encouraged to express deeper levels of criticality and messaging through their work.

Awards

This year the BFA Fashion Design program recognizes excellence across 22 categories, including adaptive design, ancestral craft, innovative menswear, body adornment, sustainability, and more. Select the "BFA Award Winner" hashtag to view the portfolios of the 2026 winners.

Collection

The Collection pathway challenges you to consider approaches to body, gender, age, and size in order to develop new narratives, definitions, and terminologies within a clearly defined visual aesthetic beyond traditional contexts.

BFA Pathways

Fashion Product

Build connections between fashion and lifestyle, embracing craft methodologies and technological advances inclusive of AI and AR to develop a range of new products considering function, environmental context, and user needs.

Fashion Pathways

Materiality

Generate new possibilities for fashion through the integration of new technologies and sustainable approaches with foundational methods of dying, knit, print, surface treatments, embroidery, and weave while challenging you to explore new fabrication techniques.

Fashion Pathways

Systems & Society

Explore a diverse range of systems design and critical thinking approaches in order to develop and actually construct new types of fashion systems and models that can make a positive impact on our world.

BFA Pathways

Phygital

Students analyze and study social dynamics, emotional impacts, and new aesthetic forms activated by digital technologies, and explore human relations and identities, multiculturalism, sustainability, and the expansive field of fashion.

BFA Pathways
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