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
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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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
CONFESSIONS OF A GIRL CREATURE by Phoebe Mang | @phoebe_mang
Phoebe Mang’s collection, Confessions of a Girl Creature, stems from a lifelong feeling of not being “a girl” in the right way—smudged makeup, prickly body hair, and jokes that didn’t land. No matter how much effort she put in, it never felt like enough.
As she began to explore these feelings more deeply, she found resonance in female representation within horror. The collection plays with traditional feminine elements—bows, gathers, taffetas—and begins to subvert them through silhouette, furry textures, and unexpected materials. Tailored pieces introduce a masculine edge, creating a nuanced balance between softness and strength.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
FREE HAND by Christen Lee | @christsavedmeee
Free Hand explores outsider art and its rebellious, instinctive nature. By reimagining traditional aristocratic silhouettes and incorporating handcrafted materials, Christen Lee challenges the elitism of the fashion industry to create pieces that feel raw, personal, and deeply human.
The collection is about reclaiming space and honoring the labor of creation—just as she did when she first picked up a pencil as a kid.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
NATURE’S ARCHITECT by Isabella Pedrero | @las_cositas_bbpeds
Nature’s Architect explores the relationship between memory, environment, and design. Growing up in Mexico City, Isabella Pedrero was surrounded by both nature and architecture. With parents who worked in spatial design, she became fascinated by how sunlight, shadows, and organic patterns moved through built spaces.
Inspired by architects like Luis Barragán and William Smalley, the collection reflects how design can transform ideas into physical materials.
Nature’s Architect serves as a reminder that design is not only about what we build, but also what we feel and remember.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
LINGER IN EASE by Yunru Huang | @_yunru
Yunru Huang’s collection, Linger in Ease, emerged from tensions she felt in both her surroundings and herself. In response, she returned to what she enjoys—painting, writing, creating—allowing ideas to emerge naturally.
It began with mindless knitting and “drawing” on the flatbed machine, using weaving techniques to create imagery, which became a form of meditation. The garment construction resembles puzzle pieces—a frame on which patterns can be laid flat. While not entirely zero waste, the approach is low waste and intentional.
Through fine, considered garments made with natural fibers, the collection invites the wearer to feel connected to their environment—sensing breezes and air—easing tension through contrasts in texture and weight.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
WORLDBUILDING by Bel Davies | @annabeldavies_
Ever since childhood, Bel Davies has imagined worlds drawn from books, movies, and video games. She created dreamscapes that became a way to escape low self-esteem and anxiety. As those imagined spaces grew, they transformed into coping mechanisms that followed her into adulthood.
WORLDBUILDING encapsulates those fantasies, blending inspiration from fantasy realms and the natural world with craft techniques like natural dyeing, beading, and surface manipulation.
Playful experimentation brings these imagined worlds to life, now shaped into adult-sized forms through the use of heavy elements like corsetry and chainmail.
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Fashion BFA, Fashion Show 2025
PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE by Ruoshui Wang | @ruo.w04
PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE explores the quiet and intricate nature of human intimacy. Rather than focusing solely on the relationship between body and garment, the collection centers on the emotional distances and invisible connections that exist between people.
Through thoughtful material choices, soft textures, and restrained silhouettes, the designs reflect moments of closeness, separation, and silent understanding. A muted color palette evokes comfort and tenderness, while subtle construction details mirror the tensions found in human relationships.
Each piece acts as both an object and a vessel of emotion, holding space for personal stories, shared experiences, and the quiet complexities of connection.
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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.
