Fashion intellectual property for the global market

Educational Foundation Bunka Gakuen has played a leading role at the core of in Japan’s fashion education for hundred years since its establishment in 1919.

Besides nurturing capable persons for our next generation, it also proactively promotes publication, cultural and research activities, including the issue of “Soen” and “Mrs” magazines and international collaborative activities with various cities in the world. Furthermore, it also enthusiastically releases fruitful information and provides solid educational materials though its library, Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum and Bunka Fashion Resource Center, with useful clothes-related information from its five associated research institutes.

Bunka Fashion Graduate University is established with an aim to systemize a practical and unique curriculum as an improvement of just academic teaching, and thus values of individuals can be fostered for the society. It nurtures real, true fashion business leaders from a different angle of other educational institutes in the fashion industry.

The Fashion Design Course offers a wide variety of subjects ranging from practical subjects designed to help students acquire knowledge and skills about fashion to management-related subjects linking design with business. Along with the lectures, students work on a research project with an aim to build their own brands in two years and learn how to give concrete shapes to their own concepts. In the first semesters of the first year and second year, they present their concepts. They will create 13 to 18 items in the first year and 15 to 20 items in the second year.

Contains various work created as “Final Research & Collection”. The pictures of each work are taken by professional photographers using professional hair and make-up artists and models, and the magazine is fully edited and produced. This is a full-scale collection of works, and some graduates have been recruited by fashion companies after their work was seen in these pages. BFGU MAGAZINE is released annually. As well as exhibitions and competitions, the magazine is a serious chance to launch your own brand.Since 2012, BFGU MAGAZINE has opened as a website, not on paper.

The Fashion Technology Course offers a curriculum based on actual production sites. A wide variety of technology-focused subjects are available, which teach theories, knowledge and practical skills on the production of fashion products, as well as design subjects and management subjects required to utilize the acquired skills. Students exhibit the research results of “Basic Research & Collection” in the first year and “Final Research & Creation” in the final year, which will include more practical content. The course aims to develop students into work-ready fashion technologists.

The Fashion Business Administration Course nurtures entrepreneurs, business administrators, and producers capable of leading in the global fashion business sector. The students will first study the basics of the fashion business, followed by such as business management and finance, in parallel with subjects in fashion technology and design. In the second (final) year, the students will study applied corporate management theory and finance,while conducting research on individually selected themes. By the end of the final year, they will have acquired a broad knowledge and the know-how to succeed in all areas of the fashion business. Students will create the basis for succeeding as fashion business leaders. Through two years of research work, they will create the plan for their own brand business.