[VOUTRAIL FA] Launch of "VR Fashion Course". Full-scale start of training digital creators with both fashion expression and garment-making skills.

VOUTRAIL THE FASHION ACADEMY (hereinafter VOUTRAIL, a school corporation Osaka College of Fashion & Culture, Chairman: Akitoshi Toyoda, Location: Yodogawa-ku, Osaka City) will establish a new "VR Fashion Course" within its Fashion Creator Department from April 2026.

This marks a full-scale start to training personnel who can thrive in the digital content industry as a new development in fashion education, coinciding with the school name change in April of this year.

VOUTRAIL launched Japan's first "3D Modelist Course" at a vocational school in 2021, promoting digital fashion education. The VR Fashion Course will leverage the knowledge and achievements cultivated there to provide education that further expands the possibilities of fashion expression.

■Course Overview

Course Name: Fashion Creator Department VR Fashion Course
Start Date: April 2026
Duration: 3 years

Curriculum: In the first year, students learn the basics of garment-making such as design, pattern making, and sewing, while systematically studying VOUTRAIL's unique ideation education that builds designs from research. In the second and third years, students take specialized subjects focused on the digital domain, including digital costume production and character expression using 3DCG software (CLO, MAYA, ZBrush).

Career Paths: Character modeler, digital costume creator, avatar production-related roles in digital content fields such as anime, games, and video.

Details: https://www.voutrail.jp/course/creator_vrfashion.html

■Target Human Resource

This course aims to cultivate creators who possess not only expertise in garment-making and costume expression but also the creative ability to construct character backgrounds and worldviews into designs, along with 3DCG expression techniques.

■Background and Significance of Course Establishment

In the digital content industry such as anime, games, and video, there is a growing demand for the ability to visually express character individuality and worldviews. On the other hand, much CG education focuses on technical skills like modeling and software operation, and there are few opportunities to systematically learn the process of deeply understanding a character's background and settings and translating that into design. Furthermore, regarding costumes, which are a crucial element of characters, there are limited personnel who can digitally express them while understanding garment structure, materials, and styling.

VOUTRAIL has established a unique educational methodology that involves deep research into culture, eras, and character profiles, building designs from that research, in addition to over 80 years of expertise in garment-making and costume expression.

The VR Fashion Course leverages these strengths to provide education that fuses the knowledge cultivated in fashion education with 3DCG technology. This is a new initiative to expand the educational assets accumulated as a fashion school into the digital content domain and broaden the scope of activity for fashion professionals.

■Educational System with Expertise in Both Fashion and Digital

VOUTRAIL's faculty includes instructors with practical experience as designers and pattern makers in the fashion industry and who hold 3D Modelist certification, as well as active CG creators with extensive practical experience in digital content fields such as anime, games, video, VTubers, and figure production.

This educational system, which spans the specialized fields of fashion and digital content, provides an environment where students can practically learn garment-making and costume expression expertise, the design construction process starting from research, and 3DCG expression techniques.

■Educational Achievements in Digital Fashion

Award-winning works from the 1st Digital Apparel Design Contest

VOUTRAIL has been running the "3D Modelist Course" within its Fashion Creator Department, building a track record in the digital fashion field.

In September 2025, at the "1st Digital Apparel Design Contest" sponsored by Kotobukiya Co., Ltd. and Booklista Co., Ltd., students from the Fashion Creator Department's 3D Modelist Course achieved a total of 4 awards: 2 Excellence Awards and 2 Honorable Mentions. This was the highest number of awards among all participating schools nationwide.

The VR Fashion Course will build on these achievements to provide education tailored to the digital content field.

・1st Digital Apparel Design Contest (sponsored by Kotobukiya Co., Ltd. / Booklista Co., Ltd.)

　https://enraise.net/news/v9uyr64ahr

■About VOUTRAIL THE FASHION ACADEMY

Changing its name from Osaka College of Fashion & Culture in April 2026. It is the largest fashion school in Western Japan, celebrating its 80th anniversary. Its philosophy is to bring "joy," "confidence," and an "updraft" to society through the power of creation, and it promotes the development of human resources who can succeed in the international community. In recent years, it has strengthened ties with overseas fashion schools and accelerated investment in the digital domain, focusing on fostering creativity that combines "international sensibility" and "digital skills."

In 2025, it won the "Grand Prize" at the "2nd Fashion School Award" sponsored by Senken Shimbun, earning the top evaluation in Japan. Its vision is to become "a fashion school that achieves unparalleled results in Asia and leaves its name on the world stage."

School Corporation Osaka College of Fashion & Culture

VOUTRAIL THE FASHION ACADEMY

Location: 3-35-8 Mikuni Honmachi, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka City

Chairman: Akitoshi Toyoda

TEL: 06-6392-4371 / FAX: 06-6391-5600

https://www.voutrail.jp/

■About the school name change to "VOUTRAIL" (Reference)

https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000072.000081590.html

■Media inquiries and contact for this matter

VOUTRAIL THE FASHION ACADEMY

Corporate Planning Headquarters: Keita Kato, IR & PR Section: Yoshitaka Saito

TEL: 06-6392-4371 / FAX: 06-6391-5600

e-mail: ir@voutrail.jp