The fashion industry has not always honored the accomplishments of some of fashion’s most influential Black contributors. Historically, Black creators, designers, and crafts-people have been the driving force...
Editorial
Get Inspired at the Design Center
Located on Henry Avenue across from the Jefferson East Fall’s main campus sits a mid-century, ranch style home with a white floral chain-link fence, home to the university’s Design Center. Housed within its four walls...
Programs: Fashion Design
“Why Textile Design?” Capstone students talk about their reasons – Part Three
This semester, Textile Design capstone students are making videos to present and talk about their work. They will do this multiple times over the semester to document their process and vision as it culminates into a...
Programs: Textile Design
Congratulations 2021 Eileen Komar West Fashion Design Scholarship Winners!
For a third year, Thomas Jefferson University fashion design junior students participated in the Eileen Komar West Memorial Scholarship. Named in memory of late sleepwear and intimates designer Eileen West, this...
Programs: Fashion Design
Lavinia Biagiotti Unveils F/W 2021-2022 Collection for International Women’s Day
For International Women’s Day 2021, the Thomas Jefferson Fashion Design department is highlighting the work of Italian designer Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna. Lavinia was presented the Award of Merit by the university...
Programs: Fashion Design & M.S. Fashion Design Management
The COVID Fashion Cleanse: A Letter to Young Fashion Designers
The Fashion Industry COVID cleanse is like helplessly watching a snag in your favorite sweater slowly unravel. Our souls sit wrapped in funerary black, as we continue to witness weekly retail carnage reports. Fashion...
Programs: Fashion Design & M.S. Fashion Design Management
What to expect as a First-Year Textile Design Student
We often feature the exceptional work of our graduating seniors, grad students, and alumni, but what about first-year students? What are they making? If you are thinking about enrolling in Textile Design or perhaps...
Programs: Textile Design
Learning Pattern Design Basics through Childrens’ Fashion
Its cute, its fun, its colorful, and each year, it proves to be a crowd favorite category at the Annual Fashion Show. Childrenswear, designed and produced by sophomore level fashion design students in the Pattern...
Programs: Fashion Design
Red Dress Fashion for Womens Heart Health
Annually, Jefferson fashion design junior students partner with the American Heart Association to create red dresses for the annual “Rock the Red Dress Fashion Show”. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, this...
Programs: Fashion Design
Fashion Design Senior Collection Photoshoot: Behind the Scene
It is spring semester, or if you are a graduating senior, the final semester of your undergraduate education. While finishing classes and graduation are forefront in our seniors’ minds, so are prepping portfolios...
Programs: Fashion Design
