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Welcome to the Programs in Fashion & Textiles

During the 20th century, dressmaking evolved into product development, variety store evolved into mass merchandisers, and textile production shifted from the use of natural fibers to manufactured fibers to microfibers. Throughout it all, TWU has maintained programs in the areas of fashion design and fashion merchandising. In the 21st century, TWU continues that tradition through its established Programs in Fashion and Textiles.

Whether you have a flair for design or an interest in merchandising and marketing, you'll find a variety of career opportunities in the dynamic, creative, and challenging world of fashion.  The fashion industry is made up of diverse, team-oriented businesses that depend on people who possess creative ideas, technical skills, product knowledge, high levels of energy, and good business judgment.

Fashion and Textiles at Texas Woman's University is dedicated to serving the needs of students focused on a career in the fashion industry. Degree programs are designed to provide students with the education and technical skills needed for a career in a fast-paced, exciting, global industry.

Career opportunities in the U.S. and around the world are diverse, graduates of fashion programs work as merchandisers, buyers, apparel designers, accessory designers, pattern makers, sales representatives, store managers, wholesalers, merchandise planners and analysts, merchandise allocators, product developers, apparel production coordinators, fashion coordinators, quality assurance technicians, entrepreneurs, company owners, and university faculty members.

Fashion and Textiles offers degree programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Design and the Bachelor of Science degree in Fashion Merchandising.

All programs in Fashion and Textiles are offered in Denton, Texas on the Denton campus. On campus, the programs are  housed in the Old Main Building (OMB), the original building on the TWU campus. The program office is in 415 OMB and program classrooms are on the 2nd and 4th floors of OMB.

Program facilities for teaching and research are extensive. Fashion design laboratories utilize commercial apparel manufacturing machines and computer equipment, and are arranged to stimulate industry production facilities, enhancing the study of mass production methods common in the industry.   Facilities for study in textiles include industrial laboratory equipment. The department is a member of the National Retail Federation (NRF), the International Council of Shoping Centers (ICSC) the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), and the International Fabricare Institute (IFI).

Fashion and Textiles is proud of its academic excellence, including an international reputation in fabric care.  Faculty members consistently present scholarly work at state, national, and international conferences and publish in state, national, and international publication.  In addition, each year, several Fashion and Textiles majors are members of the Honors Scholar Program at TWU while others graduate with the highest honors bestowed by the university.

Routinely, students from programs in Fashion and Textiles at TWU are presented with awards at FGI/TFFC Career Day held in Dallas each spring at the Dallas Market Center. Career Day is an annual event for university students majoring in areas within fashion programs and is sponsored by the Dallas chapter of Fashion Group International (FGI). Students from over 50 universities and community colleges throughout the South, Southeast, and, Midwest regularly attend the event.

At Career Day, in addition to a variety of informative presentations by fashion industry professionals, participants attend a fashion show that featured garments designed and constructed by university students, and entered into the fashion design competition. Prior to the fashion show, garments are judged by a panel of industry experts in a variety of categories, and winners in each of the categories are announced at the end of the show.