At Pratt, we define fashion as cultural messaging through clothes. As a student here, you’ll contextualize fashion within a social framework, forming a strong point of view on the issues we face today and challenging them through your craft.
Elie Romero, winner of the Christopher Hunte "On Point" Award, at the Pratt Fashion Show, 2019
The Fashion Design curriculum fosters development of individual identity within a collaborative environment, informed by self-reflection and engaged critique. Students are expected to apply an informed understanding of materiality, fashion history, theory and contemporary culture to their design decisions, producing collections that engage with issues of sustainability and social responsibility.
Student Work
Watch our annual fashion show and imagine what you might do here at Pratt Fashion! Through rigorous attention to production, technique, and contemporary aesthetics, you’ll develop your design practice and with it, agency to create change.
The design studio is at the core of your educational experience at Pratt. We consider the design studio a creative space and a community. The culture of the design studio is one of creativity, experimentation, and exploration. Students are encouraged to take risks and push the boundaries of what is possible. The studio is a community to find support, encouragement, and inspiration.
Maker Spaces and Labs
Sustainability and material exploration drive our passion for making. To prepare students to become leaders within the creative community, Pratt Fashion offers a wide variety of resources including access to Shima Seiki 3D knitting machines and Framis NOSO technology, as well as a dedicated Textile Research Library within the department and a Textile Dye Garden on campus. Explore facilities.
Fashion Internships
Students have the opportunity to explore different aspects of the New York fashion design industry through their choice of internships at top design companies including Thom Browne, Zero Maria Cornejo, The Row, Altuzarra, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, Oscar de la Renta, and Creatures of the Wind. The internship provides them with hands-on experience and professional networking skills, as well as practice in how to write a resume and present their portfolio. Pratt students are required to complete three credits of internship during their course of study. A Pratt faculty adviser guides each student throughout the experience, making sure the students’ learning objectives are met.
Fashion Competitions
All Pratt Fashion students participate in annual design competitions including the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Design Scholar Awards, the Gucci Changemakers Scholars Program, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Student Fashion Design Competition. Integrated into the curriculum, these competitions provide avenues for scholarship support and exposure within the fashion community.
Study Abroad
Immersing yourself in another culture is an incredible experience that can extend the boundaries of creativity. Study abroad programs are an integral part of the college experience, and Pratt has deep connections with university partners around the world.
Learning Resources
We develop disciplinary fluency in our program of study and we celebrate the interdisciplinary nature of design critical to address the plurality and complexity of the environments in which we operate. Learn about resources.
Our Faculty
Pratt’s distinguished faculty of outstanding creative professionals and scholars share a common desire to fully develop each student’s individual potential and creativity. The faculty come from diverse educational and professional backgrounds representing the breadth of fashion complexity. This multiplicity of views and experiences provide for a tailored education that is as unique as each of the students. See all Fashion Design faculty and administrators.
Pratt’s distinguished alums are leading thriving careers, addressing critical challenges and creating innovative work that reimagines our world, at a diverse selection of companies and institutions. They also go on to become entrepreneurs and principals leading their own studios and businesses.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
SIMEMORY OUTSOURCING by Hiosuthe | @hio_sut_he
Simemory Outsourcing explores the phenomenon of memory in the digital age, fragmented, filtered, and increasingly offloaded to screens and servers.
Through heat-reactive textiles, reflective surfaces, and knits developed from film negatives, hiosuthe visualizes the fragile interplay between lived experience and digital recollection. The collection explores the shifting boundary between organic memory and algorithmic preservation, where emotion becomes data and nostalgia is rendered in code.
Each garment becomes a wearable archive, shaped by light, temperature, and time, reflecting how we remember, and what we forget, in a world of constant documentation.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
NACIMIENTO DE LA FLOR by Kylei Casmire | @kyleimilaan
Nacimiento de la Flor celebrates all body types through delicate, color-integrated fabrics and intentional craftsmanship. Inspired by the silhouette of orchids, Kylei Casmire’s collection flows with organic refinement, featuring natural fibers, hand-dyed treatments, and sheer, multilayered looks finished with care and precision.
Each piece is designed to feel as beautiful as it looks: confident, comfortable, and undeniably sexy. Garments are created to mix and match seamlessly, empowering the wearer to express their style with ease and fluidity.
From fabric treatments to finishing touches, every detail reflects a deep commitment to thoughtful design, an ode to beauty in all its natural forms.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
INTROVERSION by Aries Huilin Zeng | @huilinzeng
Introversion explores the emotional duality of those who live inwardly—where vivid bursts of saturated color bleed into muted gray, capturing the collision between inner turbulence and outer stillness.
Informed by the quiet complexities of introspection, Aries Huilin Zeng crafts silhouettes that hover between retreat and reach. Draped forms and sculpted structures suggest bodies shielding and revealing themselves in equal measure. Shifting fabrics, from soft to sharp, mirror the instability of emotion beneath composed exteriors.
Each look becomes a fragment of an interior world, where silence is charged with color and restraint carries a hidden intensity. Introversion is not absence, but presence—vibrant, pulsing just below the surface.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
AUTISM by Xin Gu | @xingu_official
Autism critically examines the emotional and behavioral constraints imposed on autistic individuals through social adaptation training. Drawing from personal experience—including the loss of a cousin and two years of volunteer work at a rehabilitation center—Xin Gu explores the internal conflict between enforced conformity and authentic self-expression.
Distorted silhouettes, restrictive tailoring, and prints derived from manipulated facial expression training imagery reflect the pressure to mask neurodivergence. A muted palette of greys and blues evokes emotional desensitization beneath a forced composure.
Rather than offering resolution, Autism stands as a quiet resistance—revealing the often-unseen cost of being made to “fit in,” and challenging the unrealistic expectations placed on neurodivergent bodies.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
ECHOS OF LIFE by Andi Yi | @ziaoyistudio
Echos of Life is a quiet tribute to the lives lost to war, an appeal to compassion over conflict. At its core, the collection shifts the focus from hatred to the profound weight of absence, inviting reflection on the fragility of human existence beyond occupation, race, nationality, or ideology.
Through somber silhouettes and subtle textile treatments, Echos of Life mourns the unnamed and the unheard, channeling grief into remembrance. Each piece acts as a visual elegy, confronting the senselessness of war while urging a collective promise: never again.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
TRANSCENDING TRANSPARENCIES by Grace-Marie Cooney | @gracemariecooney
Transcending Transparencies is a reflection on healing, using stained glass as a metaphor for recovery from addiction and personal transformation. Like shattered glass reassembled into something radiant, the collection embraces the idea that beauty is born from brokenness.
Emerald green, symbolizing rebirth in Catholicism, anchors a palette that moves from darkness to light—mirroring the journey through addiction and into clarity. Cutouts, tailored construction, laser cutting, and intricate knitting patterns reflect vulnerability through physical exposure.
By blending structured tailoring with delicate transparency, Transcending Transparencies crafts a visual narrative of resilience, where each fractured part becomes essential to the whole. The collection honors the power of transformation and the strength found in revealing one’s truth.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
LIMINALITY by Yalei Fang | @yalei_offical
Liminality explores the transitional space between tradition and modernity, memory and future. Using fashion as a medium to question how cultural identity evolves, Yalei Fang redefines nostalgia and femininity through garments rooted in transformation.
Inspired by the cultural shifts of the 1990s, the collection blends Eastern and Western aesthetics, reimagining the qipao in contemporary silhouettes that balance structure and fluidity. Laser cutting, silkscreen printing, and digital textile development echo the precision of Chinese papercutting while embracing modern innovation.
By merging stretch fabrics with rigid felt and layering distorted prints with tonal micro-patterns, Liminality creates a visual language of transition, where heritage and progress coexist in motion.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
NAKED IN THE SAVANNA by Bora Erden | @3ora_
Naked in the Savanna explores stillness, beauty, and elegance within desolate landscapes. Inspired by the quiet grace of the Guinea Fowl and the vast calm of the African savanna, the collection engages with both literal and symbolic nakedness.
Delicate dotted patterns, drawn from the bird’s plumage, echo fragility and resilience, appearing across fluid silhouettes and structured forms. References to Herbert List’s photographs of the male nude and Jun Kaneko’s ceramics deepen the narrative, where rhythm and surface express vulnerability.
These elements create a suspended world where solitude becomes a space for reflection, emotion, and quiet transformation.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
EMOTIONAL ARMOR by Ava Truckenbrod | @avatruckdesign
Emotional Armor examines the quiet conflict beneath intimacy, where tenderness and vulnerability carry the threat of emotional exposure. Tracing the invisible lines between desire and protection, each piece embodies the tension between offering and withholding.
Through layered silhouettes, concealed closures, and contrasting materials, the collection explores the contradictions of feminine connection, where softness is expected, but fear quietly shapes every gesture.
This internal push and pull reflects the fragile experience of navigating closeness while retreating into self-imposed isolation. Emotional Armor opens a space for reflection on trust, connection, and the performance of vulnerability.
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To prepare students to become leaders within the creative community, Pratt Fashion offers a wide variety of resources including access to Shima Seiki 3D knitting machines and Framis NOSO technology, as well as a dedicated Textile Research Library within the department and a Textile Dye Garden on campus. Advanced courses and electives, as well as study abroad opportunities, offer students pathways to explore critical topics including gender, race, size inclusivity and activism through the lens of fashion.
INTERNSHIPS
Pratt students are required to complete three credits of internship during their course of study. Students have the opportunity to explore different aspects of the New York fashion design industry through their choice of internships at top design companies including Thom Browne, Zero Maria Cornejo, The Row, Altuzarra, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, Oscar de la Renta, and Creatures of the Wind. The internship provides them with hands-on experience and professional networking skills, as well as practice in how to write a resume and present their portfolio. A Pratt faculty adviser guides each student throughout the experience, making sure the students’ learning objectives are met.
COMPETITIONS
All Pratt Fashion students participate in annual design competitions including the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Design Scholar Awards, the Gucci Changemakers Scholars Program, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Student Fashion Design Competition. Integrated into the curriculum, these competitions provide avenues for scholarship support and exposure within the fashion community.
Upon completion of their studies, students:
Students will exhibit fluency in 2D and 3D construction processes that are innovative in cut, shape and silhouette using diverse embodied approaches.
Students will analyze and use properties and principles of materiality to make design decisions informed by sustainable practices.
Students will communicate design philosophy with evidence of fashion history, theoretical underpinnings, and contemporary culture that addresses issues of justice, equity and social responsibility.
Students will design, produce and present cohesive, contemporary and authentic collections that demonstrate their active engagement as collaborative leaders of the creative community.
