FIDM
The one closest to home for me is FIDM in San Francisco. The sad part for me is that I'd love to just jump into a footwear-specific program but you basically have to do the full program in either the fashion design or product development majors to get to the advanced study level where you can then focus on footwear. It actually looks like a great program and if I could afford to be a full-time student it would probably take me a year and a half or two. Can't really do it right now. I think the product development major is the shorter route (or so the enrollment advisor said)The Merchandise Product Development curriculum looks like this
and the footwear portion of the program looks like this
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London College of Fashion
There's actually a program i was really excited about here called Footwear Summer School which naturally is a much shorter program (though not really meant to be comprehensive it would be a great intro) 10 am to 4:30 pm for about a month you learn how to build shoes and theoretically create one of your own designs. The price isn't terrible either--about $3000 USD but then you'd have to figure out room and board I guess. Much more do-able as a working woman but still a bit of a stretch in terms of vacation time.
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Polimoda
A Fashion School in Italy has a summer course as well and also has a 2.5 year intensive course in footwear that's an undergrad degree (They also have a masters degree in footwear!) so I'm assuming you can specialize from the outset and really what better place to lear about shoes than Italy?!? The summer course is also just a month long. Very tempting. and is less expensive than the London course. A little under $2000 if you book early.
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There's FIT, of course, if I want to move to New York. And their footwear curriculum looks like it's buried in the Accessories Design Major.
or De Montfort University in England which again is a three year program but looks like it has a big reputation and places a lot of graduates in the industry.
There are also non-university setting in which to learn shoemaking as a craft. I'll cover those in the next post.
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