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
ATTACHMENT WOUNDS by Kalen Whitehead | @_kwhitehead
Attachment Wounds explores Kalen Whitehead’s relationship with her mother through the lens of psychology and attachment theory, a subject that has deeply informed both her academic and personal journey.
Rooted in John Bowlby’s theory, the collection reflects on how early relational strains leave lasting impressions. But rather than focusing solely on rupture, it also honors reflection, growth, and enduring love.
Through knitting, felting, macramé, and weaving, Whitehead constructs a visual language shaped by techniques and symbols passed down from her mother. The collection contemplates attachment, womanhood, and inheritance, examining how identity is formed through, alongside, and in contrast to the women who raise us.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
WITHIN THE GROVE by Amelia Yetter | @ameliayetter
Within the Grove reflects on the generational bonds between the women in Amelia Yetter’s family, honoring what they have done and what women continue to do through craft, care, and connection over time.
Motifs expressed through hand knitting, cross stitching, hand sewing, and medieval patterning form the foundation of the collection’s visual language. These traditional techniques serve as a bridge across generations, illustrating how the labor and experiences of past women have shaped the designer’s own path.
Within the Grove is a quiet celebration of legacy, of memory held in stitches, stories passed through thread, and the enduring strength of women’s work.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
SERAPHIM SLIDING BACKWARDS by Henry Hitchcock | @polarist.live
Seraphim Sliding Backwards reflects on the nature of loss and the quiet beauty of the obscure.
To be lost is to be assimilated into obscurity, yet in the fog of antiquity, there is meaning to be found in the lack of form. There is comfort in the thickly woven blanket of loose ends that entraps this world of the forlorn.
Meaning emerges amongst the flock of the unimportant; there is value in the desire to wander through the vale of the obscure. In that wandering, one may find serenity amongst the dry leaves of meaning, leaves that have fallen so far from the branches they once rested upon.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
OVERGROWTH by Jude Mikulencak | @stuffbyjude
Overgrowth explores the fragmented memory of parental divorce through the lens of an imagined overgrown, foggy winter forest, a visual metaphor for emotional distance and fading recollection. The forest becomes a symbol of loss and disorientation, shaping the collection’s core visual language.
Hand-beaded vines stretch across bodices like creeping growth, while chaotic ruffling mimics wild, untamed foliage. A muted, grey-heavy palette is broken by dull burgundy, purple, and blue, evoking a sense of distant, half-felt emotion. Heavy wools offer protection from a cold, desolate landscape, contrasted by the ghostlike softness of silk.
Structured tailoring forms a cocoon, guarded and composed, while exaggerated ruffles erupt around it, expressing the unpredictable chaos of memory and emotion. Overgrowth is a journey through loss, confusion, and the quiet beauty of what remains.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
THE OTHER SIDE by Zhengyu Zhou | @zhengyu__zhou
The Other Side explores the fluidity of gender through form, texture, and silhouette. Inspired by the tension between traditional masculinity and femininity, Zhengyu Zhou merges triangular and hourglass shapes to create garments that embody hybrid identities.
Techniques such as body shifting, deconstruction, and cutting planes mirror the emotional process of breaking free from societal expectations. Structured tailoring in wool and cotton shirting is layered with soft knits, reframing familiar codes of power and vulnerability.
Rendered in muted tones of gray, blue, and pink, The Other Side blurs binaries and opens space for new expressions of gender—fluid, personal, and evolving.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
ORIGIN by Xinjun Lu | @xinguxx
Origin recalls the memory of hospital visits in childhood, moments that resurfaced during a depressive time. The smell, the clash of instruments, the cries of children, the sounds of toys, and the ticking of the clock once formed an unlikely lullaby.
The atmosphere of the hospital, as origin, inspires Xinjun Lu to return to that space through design, capturing sound, sensation, and texture. Using music as a starting point, she interprets sound through thread sketching, a technique that allows her to draw with stitches instead of simply sewing fabric.
The color white runs throughout the collection, evoking the feeling of drawing thoughts onto a blank page. With a focus on emotional response, Xinjun Lu chose pure cotton to prioritize comfort and sensitivity for the wearer.
Origin becomes a space of quiet relief, an emotional treatment through texture, memory, and form.
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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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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.
