Are you back at school and looking for a tutor?

Back to School sale image with $55 off a yearly subscription using Promo code TUTOR. Offer expires 10.01.2026

University of Fashion’s Back-to-School Sale is like having a fashion-design fairy godparent—except instead of a wand, we’ve got 550+ on-demand videos, and instead of midnight curfew, we’re open 24/7.

What you get (without the all-nighter panic)

  • Access to professional fashion education whenever inspiration strikes—or when your professor says, “It’s due tomorrow.”
  • Lessons taught by experienced fashion-industry pros across 13 design and business disciplines (because yes, fashion school involves both sketching and spreadsheets).
  • Expert guidance for mastering technical skills, building business smarts, or simply regaining the confidence to face that blank mood board.

How students actually use us

  • Untangling tricky design assignments (darts, draping, and “why won’t this sleeve behave?” moments).
  • Powering through business assignments without Googling “what is a line sheet?” at 2 a.m.
  • Finding last-minute inspiration when the paper is due, the coffee’s gone, and your muslin looks suspiciously like a potato sack.

With 550+ tutorials across 13 fashion disciplines, University of Fashion is basically your always-on studio mentor—minus the judgmental side-eye when you pin backwards.

  • Draping: daywear, athleisure, evening & bridal, swimwear, intimate apparel
  • Pattern Making: daywear, athleisure, evening & bridal, swimwear, intimate apparel
  • Sewing: machine & hand stitching, seam and hem finishes, zippers, couture techniques, tailoring, embroidery, leatherwork, and more
  • Fashion Drawing: figure drawing for men, women, and children; fabric rendering; design details; watercolor, pastels, and more
  • Knits: knitting, crocheting, and cut-and-sew knits
  • Menswear: measuring the male body and drafting bespoke patterns from measurements
  • CAD Art: Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate, 3D design, AI fashion design, textile design
  • CAD Pattern Making: Tukatech pattern drafting and marker-making software
  • Accessories: handbags, small leather goods, shoe design
  • Product Development: starting a brand, adaptive fashion, tech design, flats, specs, tech packs, 3D design, AI fashion design
  • Childrenswear: global sizing and free kids’ pattern slopers for boys’ and girls’ wear
  • Fashion Business: start-up, retail, branding, fashion law, licensing, visual merchandising, and more
  • Lecture Series: adaptive design, costume history, sustainable design, color theory, trend forecasting, textiles, visual merchandising, and more

Special back-to-school offer

We typically run this promotion only once a year (during the holidays), but to help teachers and students get a head start, we’re offering $55 off our annual subscription:

  • Regular price: $220
  • Now: $165 with code TUTOR
  • Offer expires: October 1, 2026

Ready to elevate your fashion education? Use code TUTOR at checkout and start learning today.

If you are a school or group, we offer a free trial so that you can sample our content before taking advantage of our reduced rates for schools & groups.

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Hurry, our offers expire October 1, 2026. Please note that the student discount promo code can only be used by teachers for their own personal use and not for use in the classroom. For our group subscription rates (5+ people) and to learn more about our free trials, scan the Group QR code above.

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Headshot of Francesca Sterlacci

Francesca Sterlacci is the CEO of University of Fashion (UoF) which she founded in 2008 as the first on-demand online fashion video library bringing the art and craft of fashion design and business to schools, libraries, organizations and the general public. As owner of her eponymous label for ten years, her collection sold in fine stores such as Bergdorf Goodman, Saks, Barneys and Nordstrom. As a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology for 11 years, she became Chair of the Fashion Design Department where she initiated the complete revision of their AAS and BFA degree programs, as well as wrote three certificate programs: Leather Fashion Design, Outerwear and Haute Couture. Francesca has also taught graduate level fashion design at the Academy of Art University San Francisco for six years, both on site and online. Her publishing accomplishments include: Leather Apparel Design, the Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry (First and Second Editions), the A-Z of the Fashion Industry, Leather Fashion Design and a 3-volume beginner series on Draping, Pattern Making and Sewing designed to complement the UoF lessons. She has also made literary contributions to both the Encyclopedia of Clothing & Fashion and You Can Do It! The Merit Badge Handbook for Women. Francesca holds an AAS, BA and an MSEd (master’s degree in higher education).