A student run magazine within UW-Madison that allows for students of all backgrounds and majors to participate in writing about fashion, lifestyle, culture and arts according to MODA Madison’s webpage.
MODA UW Fashion Week
Along with being a monthly publication that focuses on fashion and trend-setting topics, they put on a UW Fashion week year around the end of March. Students from textile backgrounds to journalism majors gather to put on an event that is highly rewarding according to Audrey Piehl and Serena Handler of the Badger Herald.
Design made by student
DS 270 (Design Fashion Event Practicum class)
This is a class offered within the School of Human Ecology program at UW-Madison but allows and encourages students of all majors to participate. They focus on teaching all the steps needed to successfully put on a fashion show according to the syllabus for the class. Allowing different majors to participate creates a final product that encompasses all aspects of advertising, fashion, journalism and more.
Threads Fashion Show
This fashion show is the end product of what DS 270 works on all semester with accordance from textile classes to produce the clothing for the show. There is a theme picked each year and is a hands on learning opportunity for students to put the skills they have learned in classes leading up to this according to the Threads website.
TFD New York program within SoHe
This program is unique to UW-Madison and was newly created in part by the growing textile program in School of Human Ecology. If you apply and get accepted, students spend their senior year at the Fashion Institute for Technology in New York City, learning and working hands on in an area booming with fashion opportunities and experiences according to the SOHE website.
Student fashion competition winners
Students from marketing and retailing and consumer behaviors majors continue to compete each other year and win big cash prizes and mentoring within the YMA Fashion Scholarship fund according to Doug Erickson of SOHE. UW-Madison has continued to be a large representative at these competitions and seemingly always doing well among talented competitors.
Virgil Abloh, graduate of UW-Madison
The now Men’s Art Director for Louis Vuitton graduated from UW-Madison in 2003 with a degree in Engineering. Virgil created his own brand, Off-White and created an impressive career for himself within the fashion world and continues to represent creativity and inspiration for students here according to the Badger Herald interview with Virgil.
Latico by Liv
Olivia Schreiber is a student who graduated from the UW-Madison Journalism school within three years and started her leather purse company while at school here. She continues to work in the fashion industry as she lives in NYC and exhibits great talent.
Recess Apparel
A current student at UW-Madison manages her own account of tailgate gear and college themed clothing. Within the sorority community and beyond, the brand has widely increased their market and variety of clothes being produced.
Revly Sport Swimwear
This company was formed by two graduates of UW-Madison last year as a they launched a sport company in California based on values of self-image and body positivity. Both business partners became entrepreneurs within a year of graduation and focused their efforts of swimwear, as they do pop-up shops mainly in CA but also back in WI at times.
Fashion on UW-Madison Campus 