The Portland area offers several educational choices for fashion students including the Art Institute of Portland offering an associate's and bachelor's degree in apparel design and an associate's degree in apparel accessory design. For those more interested in the creation and manipulation of fabric, the Oregon College of Art and Craft offers a bachelor's and certificate program in fibers the includes weaving, surface design and off-loom/mixed media studies.
Portland is the fashion design center of Oregon, and job prospects for fashion designers are predicted to be good through 2012. Of 328 jobs in fashion design predicted for the state of Oregon in 2012, 316 of them will be in the Portland area, a 10.5% increase from 2002. In addition to good job prospects, fashion designers in the Portland area can look forward to high salaries with a 2005 average of $50,010 in 2005. For those wanting to focus their careers on fabric and apparel patternmaking, the Portland area also offers good job prospects and high salaries with a projected 4.5% increase in jobs between 2002 and 2012 and a 2005 average annual salary of $45,903.
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For fashion students or professionals interested in working in athletic footwear or apparel, Portland is a perfect place to seek employment. Beaverton, Oregon, just outside of Portland, serves as world headquarters for Nike a leading designer and producer of athletic footwear and clothing. Adidas a footwear, apparel, and sports accessory designer and producer, also has a corporate office in Portland. Activewear companies Columbia Sportswear, InSport and Lucy Activewear also call Portland home.
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The Portland area offers several educational choices for fashion students including the Art Institute of Portland offering an associate's and bachelor's degree in apparel design and an associate's degree in apparel accessory design. For those more interested in the creation and manipulation of fabric, the Oregon College of Art and Craft offers a bachelor's and certificate program in fibers the includes weaving, surface design and off-loom/mixed media studies.
