Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology：https://www.bift.edu.cn

Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology：https://www.bift.edu.cn

Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT), founded in 1959, is China’s premiere educational facility associated with fashion, mainly specializing in art and technology. With defining characteristics, BIFT is a full-time higher education institution where art, technology, economics, management and other convergent disciplines can successfully interact. Now it is composed of School of Fashion and Engineering, School of Fashion Accessory and Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Art and Design, School of Fashion Communication, School of Business, School of Information Engineering, School of Language and Culture, Academy of Fine Arts, Basic Education Department, Ideological and Political Theory Teaching Department, Graduate School, School of International Education and School of Continuing Education. There are 29 basic undergraduate specializations, 4 double-major specializations, 8 first-grade master disciplines and 2 master degree specialization and 1 special PhD Research Program on “Rescue, Heritage and Innovation of Chinese Traditional Costume Culture” in BIFT. The institute has 1 Beijing Key Construction First-grade Discipline, 3 Beijing Key Construction Second-grade disciplines and an Ethnic Costume Museum which is one of the top ten specialized museums in China.

Following the visionary administrative philosophy of “Seeking Truth and Innovation, Applying Theory to Practice”, BIFT forms the characteristics of specializing in fashion and integrating art with technology. BIFT sets up 13 academic institutions and municipal-level scientific institutions, establish BIFT PARK and makes great exemplary progress in the achievement transformation of fashion and design industry. Our institute actively serves the function of promoting economic and social development. BIFT took part in designing the uniforms for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, 2011 Shenzhen Universiade, 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, and 2016 Rio Olympic Games. BIFT has successfully fulfilled the fashion research and design for the mass parade and volunteers in the 60th National Anniversary of PRC. We also participated in designing clothing and accessory with specific industry requirements, such as the watches for the South and North Pole expedition team and the space suits for the astronauts in Shenzhou Seven/Nine/Ten/Eleven Spacecraft, including the design of the space suits and the shoes worn in the Spacecraft. Moreover, the faculty of our institute has participated in both the fashion research and design for 2014 APEC leaders costume, which makes BIFT win the attention of the world. In the recent years, the fashion design and art major students have been taking the leading position in all kinds of national and international fashion contests, and they have earned more than 100 national and international competition awards, including the U.S.A. AOF Fashion Award, German Red Dot Design Award and Hempel Cup Award, which makes BIFT the “cradle of Chinese fashion designer”. Fashion Performance major of BIFT ranks the first within China, students from this major made outstanding achievements in both national and international competitions, including wining the honor of Chinese champion of 66th Miss World 2016 and the champion of China Supermodel Competition, etc.

Since the establishment of the Institute, BIFT have cultivated more than 30,000 graduates(including more than 3,000 international students and Chinese students form Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), and many of them have become the leading figures in the national fashion industry and international cultural creative area. BIFT has won Distinguished Academy Award, Education Contribution Award of Beijing Fashion Capital Construction and Special Contribution Award of Beijing Fashion Capital Construction over the past few years. In 2016, BIFT was chosen as the best fashion Institute in China by Business of Fashion. BIFT runs high in terms of the undergraduate fashion courses and ranks 2nd “Best Long-term Value”in regards to graduate fashion courses at the international level. Now, BIFT is a famous “Chinese Higher Education Fashion Institute”with distinctive characteristics at home and abroad.