World’s leading fashion schools open in Asia to meet rising demand for design education
With few reputable fashion schools in the region, would-be designers from Asia flocked to top institutions in the West to learn their trade; seeing this demand, schools have opened branches in Asian countries including China and India
Asia’s creative power has grown steadily in tandem with its economic might, and with that has come rising demand from Asian students for places at the world’s leading fashion design schools.
China in particular is moving rapidly beyond being a manufacturing powerhouse and maturing into a fully fledged fashion player with its own creative young stars.
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Until the early 2000s, study options were few for would-be fashion designers from Asia: move far from home to learn at top educational institutions in the West, or vie for a place at one of only a handful of reputable fashion schools in the region, such as Tokyo’s Bunka Fashion College.
Even if they managed to study fashion design, it was left entirely to them to find fame and fortune in the world’s big four fashion capitals – Paris, Milan, London and New York.
This is no longer the case, however, as the huge potential for growth in the design and fashion sectors has opened up new career paths.
