Fashion Design Program

The aim of İstanbul Kültür University’s Fashion Design Program is to train contemporary and creative fashion designers who can produce original designs by shaping their scientific ideas in an aesthetic way with professional and technical equipments in the textile, apparel and fashion field.

Çizim yapan öğrenciStudy Process:

The education period of Istanbul Kültür University Program of Fashion Design is 2 years, and the courses are offered in theory and practice. Basic Design and Art Education, Fashion Painting and Illustration, Pattern Drawing Techniques, Pattern Preparation, Textile Technology, Garment Production, Garment Design, Draping, Accessory Design, Underwear Design, Denim Design, Computer Aided Clothing Design (Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Programs) , Computer Aided Pattern Preparation (ASSYST, DESIGN CAD, GEMIN), Textile Design (SIMETRI Weaving Design Program), Creative Thinking Styles, Contemporary Fashion Movements, Technical Drawing in Cloth Design, Fabric and Material Knowledge, Design Research Methods and Presentation Techniques, Personalized Clothing Design, Project Development, Fashion-Brand and Style Relationship consists of courses that will provide all the necessary knowledge and skills in the fields of textile, fashion, clothing, art, science and communication.

The educational environment was prepared accordingly, and classrooms, clothing and drawing workshops, production workshops, computer laboratories were organized in order to ensure the permanence of theoretical knowledge and to gain professional skills.

IKU Program of Fashion Design has 50 percent and 100 percent scholarships, and secondary education has 50 percent and 100 percent scholarships. One of the main objectives of the department is to provide university-industry collaboration and enable the student to work on applied production until graduation. Compulsory professional internship application in the program is 60 working days, and this training, MHGF (Fashion Apparel Federation), HİGE-DER, TİGSAD, GİYİMKENT, BİSSE, COLİN'S, DAGİ, KOM, VAKKO, PİERRE CARDİN, SUWEN, POSITIVE DESEN, CAMPİONE and supported by organizations. Our Program of Fashion Design students have the opportunity to double major with other associate degree programs. Our successful students are given the opportunity to go abroad with Erasmus student mobility and Erasmus student internship mobility programs. In addition, our students can continue their undergraduate education by taking DGS exam.

IKU Program of Fashion Design is an associate degree program, which is designed to educate designers with the qualities required by the fashion industry, who can make designs suitable for contemporary, aesthetic and functional values, follow the technological developments with the knowledge and skills of creating fashion-brands. The education language of the program is Turkish.

The education period of IKU Program of Fashion Design is 2 years and the courses are carried out theoretically and practically. The educational environment was prepared accordingly, and classrooms, clothing and drawing workshops, production workshops, computer laboratories were organized in order to ensure the permanence of theoretical knowledge and to gain professional skills.

As Istanbul Kültür University Program of Fashion Design, by participating in events such as courses, semester, company-store trips, workshops, accessory-fabric-machine-material fairs, fashion show organizations of famous brands and designers, exhibitions that develop and specialize our students socially. it is ensured that they are more connected with the sector.

High school graduate students are placed in our IKU Program of Fashion Design with TYT score.

As the Istanbul Kültür University Program of Fashion Design, our vision is to train original and productive fashion designers who are capable of creating fashion and brands, able to cope with the global society and working environment challenges of today and tomorrow, possessing the knowledge and skills required by the fashion industry, developing, self-expressing, and productive fashion designers.

Our mission is to cooperate with institutions that have theoretical knowledge and practice together, have advanced technological equipment, can create new products by organizing all stages of design process from abstract to concrete, from idea to product, know the sector well, provide creative, international fashion design education, qualified business It is among the duties of our department to contribute to the development of academic knowledge and fashion industry with its strength and technical knowledge transfer, to raise researchers, graduates with artistic perspective and strong ethical values.

The need for creative fashion designers, which can meet the rapidly developing and changing demands of the fashion industry, gained the knowledge and ability to use current technologies, have the ability to organize the design process, is increasing. In this direction, the purpose of the Program of Fashion Design is to train designers who can make designs in accordance with aesthetic and functional values, follow the technological developments with the knowledge and skills of creating fashion-brand, and qualify for the fashion industry.

We will be pleased to see the future fashion designers, who are in need of textile, ready-made clothing and fashion industry on an international scale, making a difference in the IKU Vocational School Program Fashion Design.


Instructor Nilgün DEMİRHAN
Head of the Program

At the end of their theoretical and practical training for 2 years, our candidates will be on the podium as designers.
Our students who graduated from Program of Fashion Design can work as designers in design departments, product development, research and development, collection preparation and Planning Departments of public and private sector textile companies. Apart from these, our students who have graduated from the Program of Fashion Design can fine employment opportunities in places such as, design studios, fashion agencies, marketing, purchasing, brand management or customer relations departments, and in boutique fashion houses.
Head of Program Instructor Nilgün Demirhan
E-Mail n.demirhan@iku.edu.tr
Tel (0212) 498 49 74
Fax (0212) 543 69 70
Program Advisor Instructor Neslihan Tokat Ozan
E-Mail n.ozan@iku.edu.tr
Tel (0212) 498 49 67
Fax (0212) 543 69 70
İstanbul Kültür University, Vocational School, Bakırköy Campus İncirli Building, Yolbaşı S., 34147 Bakırköy/İstanbul.

Last Update Date: Mon, 12/04/2023 - 12:54