Fashion

We welcome you to join the Fashion Program at Orange Coast College, where you can obtain the education to succeed in the fashion industry. This well-established program prepares you for transfer to a four-year program, a professional career, a career change, or advancement in your present fashion career.

Michelle Craner
(Interim) Program Coordinator
Assistant Professor & Internship Coordinator

Fashion is among the largest and most established industries in California. A fashion education can provide the necessary background and skills for a career in this ever thriving and dynamic world. Orange Coast College offers programs and courses that meet the needs of this vast industry. Our fashion program provides an environment that promotes critical thinking, creativity and multicultural awareness. If fosters understanding of social, organizational and technological systems. 

Career opportunities in the fashion industry are endless and diverse. The fashion business is challenging, fast paced, exciting and constantly changing. It's a multi-billion dollar industry and the second largest employer in the United States. Fashion is the second largest industry among Southern California's manufacturing employers and second only to the aerospace industry.

Lauren Becker
Professor and Program Coordinator