Fashion Design-Fellowship
Creative Lead Fellowship: Fashion Design
Location: Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)
Eligibility: Rising Seniors, Graduating Seniors, Graduate Students, and Alumni
About DesignX
DesignX is a studio-based design education organization grounded in the timeless power of human ingenuity. We believe that creativity is a form of intelligence—and that design allows us to give form to the intelligence with intention. Our learning environments are designed to turn imagination into things students can touch, wear, build, and play with in the physical world—through both structured and open-ended challenges, real materials, and thoughtful making.
Serving students ages 7–15, DesignX offers immersive programs in fashion, toy, product, and architectural design. Students learn by designing, iterating, making, receiving critique, and completing work with care. This human-centered approach develops deep creative judgment, real material fluency, rich collaboration, and true confidence—for both the budding designers and the fellows who guide them.
Over the past decade, DesignX has engaged more than 8,000 students across Silicon Valley, building design literacy and creative agency that extend well beyond the studio or program.
The Fellowship
The Creative Leadership Fellowship in Fashion Design is conceived as a formative professional experience for emerging designers.
As a fellow, you will be entrusted with leading students through the complete design process—framing problems, fostering discovery, and guiding the creation of tangible collections. Along the way, you will refine your creative judgment, strengthen your leadership, and practice mentoring in a fast-paced studio-like setting. Technology may enable aspects of ideation, yet the true emphasis lies in cultivating the human dimensions of design: imagination, discernment, collaboration, and craft.
Fellowship Responsibilities
- Lead through practice: Mentor students from concept development to finished garment, while advancing your own interpretive and design capabilities.
- Engage AI with rigor: Use AI thoughtfully as an enabling tool, while developing the discernment to refine and contextualize its outputs.
- Elevate execution: Focus on framing challenges, coaching learners, and cultivating critical reasoning in the execution of ideas.
- Develop leadership acumen: Hone skills in delegation, communication, and studio management through direct responsibility for class teams.
- Advance through mentorship: Work closely with senior staff who will challenge assumptions, broaden perspectives, and invest in your growth.
- Deliver with distinction: Plan, enable and oversee six student collections, over six weeks, guiding the production of 80+ garments that culminate in a public fashion show.
Candidate Profile
- Demonstrated proficiency with sewing tools, garment construction, and design, with an academic or professional background in fashion or related fields.
- A commitment to growth—not only as a designer but as a leader, mentor, and critical thinker.
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to use AI as a tool while strengthening the uniquely human capabilities that give design its meaning—intentionality, emotional resonance, cultural context, and the craft of making.
- Enthusiasm for working with young learners, combined with empathy, patience, and the ability to inspire.
- Reliability, professionalism, and openness to feedback in a collaborative environment.
Fellowship Details
- Program Dates: June 15 – July 26, 2026
- Onboarding & Preparation: June 11 – 12, 2026
- Commitment: Full-time
- Compensation: Competitive
Application
To include: Cover Letter, Resume, and Portfolio
Email: info@designx.company