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LaSalle College Vancouver is one of only a handful of schools in Canada to offer a Bachelor of Fashion Design Degree. Steeped in a teaching model that goes back to LaSalle College’s roots in Montreal, Canada’s fashion capital, students learn from top industry insiders the skills and training needed to build a successful career in the dynamic world of fashion. Students study the fundamentals of fashion design, including tailoring, flat pattern drafting, draping, textiles and computer pattern drafting.

The program focuses on sustainable design principles and provides the opportunity for students to take part in a practicum component – giving them the chance to work directly in the industry. Along with teaching the fundamentals and advanced technical skills, the degree program includes an element around business development and digital expertise in an evolving industry. Fashion design students who have a diploma can transfer their credits and finish their degree in as little time as a year.

Program Objectives

Our specific objectives are to provide students the following:

An opportunity to acquire a Bachelor of Design degree in Fashion Design in a program emphasizing strong theoretical and practical knowledge.

A hands-on, learning-centred educational environment that supports and enhances students’ professional and academic development as designers

Access to appropriately credentialed faculty with extensive industry experience

Opportunities to influence and lead design innovations within a dynamic, evolving field.

The Bachelor of Fashion Design program offers students the ability to transform design ideas into saleable garments and accessories, develop costuming for movies and television, gain hands-on work experience, sustainable principles, and knowledge of the business side of the fashion industry.

The design segment of the program helps students develop skills in garments construction and design including tailoring, flat pattern drafting and draping, computer pattern drafting and grading to provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of apparel engineering. In addition, marketing courses enable students to develop, analyze and implement effective market strategies.

Graduates Learn

To turn design ideas into garments and accessories.

Knowledge and skills required to work with a wide range of emerging technologies available in the industry. Students also learn to use such technology to formulate fashion design, production and business solutions, and to collaborate with geographically distributed teams.

To implement design strategies that exemplify the role of the designer as capable of seeing ways of shifting towards more resilient and responsible (ecological, social, political) modes of design, production and end use.

To critically assess decisions from raw materials through to management of post-consumer goods.

An understanding of the business side of the fashion industry.

To develop, analyze and implement proven marketing strategies.

Career Opportunities

Degree graduates work in the fashion business as designers, production assistants, pattern makers, retail and fashion house managers, visual merchandisers, stylists and brand buyers. Some have launched their own fashion label, while others have found rewarding careers working with well-established brands. Others have found work as stylists or in the costume department of major film and television productions. Graduates have also entered the fast-paced world of buying, marketing and fashion PR.