School of Fashion

You are immersed in the fashion industry from day one at Lasell’s School of Fashion.

Lasell's School of Fashion provides hands-on learning, taught by instructors who have frontline experience in design, production, merchandising, communication and promotion, marketing, and more.

Undergraduate Programs

Majors

Minors

CBS News Boston Showcases RUNWAY 2025, our annual fashion show

Find your path and follow your passion anywhere - from design to merchandising to marketing. Earn industry-recognized credentials within your courses, join award-winning, student-led publications, take part in hands-on internships, and gain access to our alumni community, professional advisory board, alumni community, and exclusive events and conferences.

Industry Connections

Coach, New Balance, Nordstrom, and Timberland are just a few of the companies where our students have interned or worked. Lasell also has an extensive group of current students, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals who are eager to support you find connections through industry trade show visits, lectures from fashion leaders, and access to prominent fashion industry resources.

Runway Fashion Show

Showcase your design, merchandising, management, media, and marketing talents in RUNWAY, Lasell's student-run fashion show.

POLISHED Magazine

Gain practical experience as a writer, editor, photographer, stylist, producer, and designer with Lasell's award-winning, student-run magazines.

Fashion in Paris

With our Paris Immersion program, you can travel to Paris and work Men's Fashion Week, take classes with industry experts, and immerse yourself in the Paris fashion industry.

Studio1851

Apply the leadership, accounting, visual merchandising, and marketing skills you learn in the classroom to Lasell's Retail Innovation Lab on campus.

Lasell Fashion Collection

Learn from historical fashion treasures with the Lasell Fashion Collection, which contains over 3,000 objects and spans 200 years of fashion history. You’ll experience the Lasell Fashion Collection in your classrooms, exhibitions, and you can access many pieces through our online catalog. Named in Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston as Best University Collection.

Get Career Ready

Go beyond the classroom and gain real-world experience to boost your resume.

National Retail Federation's Student Association

Lasell University's School of Fashion is one of the original members of the National Retail Foundation (NRF) Student Association and has participated in student conferences for over10 years. Each year the foundation and the college support students with scholarships, career fairs, educational programming and opportunities to connect with industry executives. Many students have been interviewed and hired through this organization.

Students can sign up for a MyNRF account to get exclusive access to retail industry research, educational events, networking opportunities and scholarship programs.

DECA

Lasell University's School of Fashion and Business team up together to compete on the global stage in DECA Collegiate conferences. Students build leadership skills through designing programs for student engagement, including panels and speakers from industry, and competing in state and regional DECA competitions.

Check out our Instagram Lasell's DECA chapter

Tarnished Magazine

Tarnished is written and produced by Lasell students and celebrates the visual and written arts and highlights visual artists that are active in the Boston area.

Accelerated Master's Program

Save time and money — earn your graduate degree in just 1 year with the Accelerated Master's program. Learn more and how to apply >>

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Gain Industry Experience

As a Lasell Fashion student, you will complete at least one internship, gaining valuable skills within the fashion industry. Students within the School of Fashion have worked with:

Abercrombie & Fitch
Ann Taylor
Coach
Converse
Dick's Sporting Goods
J. Jill Group
Life is Good
Macy's
Marc Jacobs
New Balance
Nordstrom
Puma
TJX Companies
Timberland
Tommy Hilfiger
Wayfair

School of Fashion Faculty

Lasell's distinguished School of Fashion faculty support the success of students by integrating into the classroom their extensive industry experiences working as designers, buyers, merchandisers, operations managers, and more.