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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.

Career opportunities in the U.S. and around the world are diverse, and 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.

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A Tradition for 100 Years

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 fashion design and fashion merchandising.