AtelierBefore you
design,
you drape.
Three questions. No right answers. A conversation that shapes everything that follows — your curriculum, your cohort, your career.
Step one
Which draws your eye first?
Built for your discipline.
Every module sequence at Atelier is assembled around where you are now and where your work needs to live. The foundation is universal. The specialisation is yours.
Drape & Construct
Muslin on dress forms before anything digital. Understanding how fabric behaves under gravity, tension, and the human body.
Pattern Geometry
Hand-cutting with precision rulers. The mathematics of fit, ease, and seam allowance.
Material Science
Wovens, knits, technical fabrics. How fiber content determines every design decision you will ever make.
Tailoring Tradition
The structured jacket, the trouser break, the shoulder roll. Bespoke tailoring taught by working Savile Row graduates.
Digital Translation
CLO3D and Gerber from a foundation of physical understanding. Software that accelerates, never replaces, craft knowledge.
Collection Development
Ten coherent looks from concept to runway. Edited with faculty who have shown at Paris, New York, and Tokyo.
Take this map with you.
Your personalised pathway guide — assembled from your answers, delivered as a PDF.
New York Campus
6,400 sq ft of studio space
Sunlit rooms
that smell of chalk
and pressed cotton.
Our studios are designed around the work — not the look of the work. Dress forms at every station. Natural light from north-facing windows. Industrial irons, professional machines, and a cutting room with tables wide enough for full-scale patterns.
12
Professional studios
200+
Dress forms available
8:1
Student-to-faculty ratio
3
Campus cities
They don't just teach.
They still make.
Formerly Maison Valentino, 14 years
Marguerite Leclerc
Head of Draping & Construction
Marguerite spent a decade in Rome learning the couture tradition before returning to teaching. Her draping seminars are the reason students cite Atelier above every other offer.
Couture technique · Bias cut · Sculptural form
Savile Row trained · Anderson & Sheppard
James Okafor
Director of Menswear
A Savile Row bespoke tailor who left to build a ready-to-wear label before joining Atelier. James teaches the trouser break, the shoulder seam, and the conversation that happens in a fitting room.
Bespoke tailoring · Pattern drafting · Fit theory
CLO3D Certified · Parsons MFA
Priya Subramaniam
Digital & Sustainable Practice
Priya bridges the physical and digital without sacrificing either. Her students leave knowing that software is a tool, not a shortcut — and understanding why that distinction matters.
CLO3D · Sustainable materials · Zero-waste pattern
Numbers that
matter.
Employed within 6 months
Of graduates in fashion or adjacent industries
Average starting salary
Across all graduating cohorts 2022–2025
Countries represented
In the current student body
Industry partners
Who recruit directly from our graduate shows
Alumni Voices
Stories from the studio.
Dara Okonkwo
Creative Director · Aether Studios, New York
I left a decade in finance to come here. The draping foundation gave me language for what I had always felt but never known how to build. Within two years of graduating, I was leading collections.
Career change · Finance → Fashion · Graduated 2021
Yuki Tanaka
Head Costume Designer · Brooklyn Academy of Music
The period construction module was unlike anything else available. I built a seventeenth-century doublet in my second term. That single garment got me my first professional commission.
Art school graduate · Parsons BFA → Atelier · Graduated 2022
Our graduates work at
Your pathway guide
for fashion design.
A custom PDF assembled from your diagnostic answers. Your curriculum sequence, matched faculty profiles, alumni stories from your path, and salary data for your chosen direction. Ready in seconds.
Curriculum map
Tailored to fashion design
Faculty matches
Based on your direction
Alumni stories
From your cohort path
Salary data
For your chosen field
Your diagnostic answers