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
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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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
DISSOCIATION by Angie Yutong Zhou | @ang1e__
Dissociation transforms an internal struggle into a tactile, visual narrative. By bridging physical textures with emotional states, each piece invites intimate engagement, offering comfort within discomfort. Structured leather and soft knits, the collection explore the contrast between resilience and vulnerability. Wave-like forms symbolize the ebb and flow of anxiety, while intricate knitting patterns reflect confusion and doubt.
These tensions mirror the fragmented experience of feeling both present and absent within one’s own body. Dissociation opens a space for reflection and conversation around mental health, identity, and the invisible complexities of being.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
IN TANDEM by Lily Lonigan | @li.el.lo
In Tandem bases itself on the idea that Lily is a product of her environment. She takes inspiration from the lives and interests of her parents and the particularly designed environments in which she was raised. The collection pulls from memories of furniture, her mom’s gardens, her dad’s car interiors, and symbols of their past work such as her dad’s sneaker designs.
In Tandem is a practice of nostalgia and familial gratitude, piecing together through fragments of memory, spaces that don’t exist anymore. There is an emphasized consideration for silhouette, layering, and texture, with a focus on mixing materials and manipulation techniques.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
THE MISFORTUNES OF EUGENE by Noah Luca Weisberg | @caspianera
THE MISFORTUNES OF EUGENE is a pseudo-autobiographical collection told through the lens of Eugene, a pitiful middle-school nerd navigating bullies, awkward crushes, and an overbearing mom, all while desperately trying to survive adolescence.
Alongside an illustrated children’s book, this satirical collection transforms moments of middle-school misery into storytelling garments. Hidden stolen tests line Gregory’s gym shorts, Alice wears her 1st place ribbon as a top, and Eugene’s anti-pantsing shorts become a quiet act of rebellion.
With humor, vulnerability, and richly layered design, Noah Luca Weisberg brings Eugene’s misfortunes to life, blurring the line between fiction, memory, and fashion.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
I’M A PUNK BUNNY by Joy Qiu | @zing.qiu
I’M A PUNK BUNNY is where leather, fur, and denim go to fight knit, cotton, and mesh. For Joy Qiu, punk is about holding yourself together with passion and identity.
Inspired by metal music, Japanese punk, and her East Asian culture, Joy uses this collection to express individuality within a very homogeneous society. She utilizes denim, fur, and leather as representations of skin—to be turned inside out, to be destroyed, to be reconstructed.
With this work, she hopes her aesthetic can innovate a new style based on her understanding of contemporary punk, one that makes people feel cute, cool, fun, and elegant all at once.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
COGS IN THE WHEEL by Jiahe Heidi Du | @pantherinn2023
Cogs in the Wheel is a history-based character study constructed by Jiahe Heidi Du. The first look begins with Drama Yoshiko, a controversial female spy in the Second Sino-Japanese War of the 1930s. She is a villain, a bisexual dominatrix, a ridiculous peacock.
Another figure is a drug-addicted empress with a hunchback and drooping shoulders—a child emperor of a fallen empire, with a tiny shoulder and a floor-length shabby coat featuring ladder stitch and unfinished tailor stitch.
The collection also includes characters drawn from more personal inspiration. Heidi’s grandmother, born in the year of the dragon, 1952—just seven years after the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War—became a point of reference. Inspired by her look, Heidi created additional fictional characters: Lady Butcher, a special big girl surrounded by prejudice and bias from her neighbors, and a prostitute in shadow, whose face can never be seen.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
DRIVING HOME by Lillian Krueger | @puppydog_lillian_coolvids
Lillian Krueger’s collection, Driving Home, is a love letter to her upbringing in the American Midwest, an exploration of how those early experiences shaped her values, personal taste, and life today as a young adult in New York.
Deeply inspired by shared moments with loved ones, Lillian uses familiar fabrics and recognizable silhouettes to evoke warmth and connection. Her goal: to create pieces that feel comforting and empowering—clothes made for a wide range of people who find confidence in ease and emotional resonance.
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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.