Comparative Analysis of Foreign Models of Fashion Education

Abstract

The aim of the article is to conduct a comparative systemic analysis of personnel preparation models in fashion education in the countries with successful design and sewing goods production. The comparative analysis of education models and trajectories of fashion education in the European Union, Ukraine, the USA, Canada, China and Japan has been presented in the article. It has been found out that the fashion-setting countries are stressing more on the creative and economical content constituents in education, while manufacturing countries are concentrating more on technical and technological content constituent of education. The future sewing specialist curricula include subjects of professional software support, business, along with a probation period (traineeship) at business enterprise. A well-developed international integration of future fashion specialists is directed at courses of academic mobility, ‘double diploma’, teaching international students, existence of foreign branches of modern fashion schools, and participation in international research projects.