HI i am 17 and love fashion an i honestly want to have my own fashion line to the point where i could not see me doing anything else so i think it would be best if i go to college for fashion but if i did where would i be able to work after i have graduated
The daughter of one of my best friends majored in fashion design, which surprised me because she was a top student, especially in math and science. She told me later that most people don’t realize what a technical job design is. She interned with a house in London, but came back to the US to take a job designing for a company that specialized in denim clothing. Doesn’t sound exciting, but she became, after a couple of year, head designer. The company was sold to a Chinese firm, so she now travels quite a bit between the US and China. That internship was critical! Also, if you can take a design job which might not be on 7th Avenue in NYC, you might find yourself employed,
I suppose there are many ways to go about this. I have two anecdotes. They by no means represent everyone who has wanted to be a designer.
All I know about design schools is what my dentist told me about his daughter’s study at Pratt. She spent four years there, but couldn’t get a job in the field. She ended up in education, which is great if that’s what you want to do, but she didn’t. Apparently the two students in her class that were most successful came from a strong technical background. They were seamstresses in the garment district in New York.
One of my daughters–who is a museum specialist and has a science background–also could create her own fashion design and business if she wanted to. She started sewing when she was 10. She used to work in the theater department of her university making costume clothing, doing repairs, and was also hired to sew period custom dresses for her older sister, a professional artist. From there she got hired to design/make period clothing for a number of other professional artists in New York City. She has worked with textile clothing in two of her museum positions. She prefers museum work, as she doesn’t like sewing all the time, but this is a field she could go into in the future. Her undergraduate degree was in anthropology/neuroscience.
I agree with @digmedia Most people don’t realize that fashion is not as much about art design as about science.
UT Austin Division of Textiles and Apparel is part of College of Natural Sciences.
https://he.utexas.edu/txa
There are thousands of clothing industry jobs all over the U.S. Creative positions such as designers, product developers and merchandisers can work at wholesale companies that sell to stores, retailers that produce their own lines or more recently, on-line e-tailers who reach their customers electronically.
Most fashion design schools offer summer and holiday internships so that their students can gain experience in the industry. Of course it helps if the school is located in an area where there are many apparel companies (like New York or Los Angeles) but there are actually good fashion schools all over the country. Building your resume with summer jobs during your school years is the best way to get started after graduation.
Many of the professors and instructors at many fashion design schools are also employed in or retired from the industry. These people can be excellent connections for job placement as can the network of your school’s alumni/ae. Design studios often hire entry level assistants from the same schools.
It’s true that fashion design is part art / part technology. In addition to being competent sketchers, most successful designers have advanced technical skills in sewing and draping and sometimes pattern making. (Or in the case of knitwear, hand knitting.) It’s crucial to have knowledge of the raw materials – fabrics and yarns and weaving and knitting processes. These skills will be part of the design school curriculum, but it helps to have a head start on the vocabulary.
ANY retail experience is valuable, even if it’s just folding t-shirts. By working with clothing you can better understand how the system works and to get a feel for how consumers make choices.
I know nothing about this subject, but this makes a lot of sense,
Here is a very interesting article about MODERN fashion design. 3-D printed shoes 
“Own fashion line” may be something very technologically advanced.
This OP has asked a lot of questions abut future possibilities. Eventually, she needs to find the Dept of Labor or other resource sites that describe jobs in detail and the outlook. Her last questions were about accounting and event management.
I know people in fashion and fashion ed. The secret is that, with only some exceptions, this is ultimately more about business than the fun of styles you like.
I’ll just say this: the t-shirts you want to fold aren’t the ones at the mall.