Study at Otago Polytechnic’s Fashion Design School – the only Fashion School in New Zealand with a Business of Fashion Top 50 ranking. Employers love our fashion design graduates. They’re innovative, hard-working, solution-focused and prepared for the realities of the fashion world. Our graduates have gone on to work for internationally-acclaimed designers such as NOM*d, or to create successful labels of their own such as Maaike and twenty-seven names. A qualification in Fashion Design could lead to a role in buying, styling, fashion writing, fashion photography, pattern-making, fashion design, production management, CAD pattern-making, costume for film and theatre, accessories, teaching, fashion marketing, or merchandising.