From the way he conducts himself, one can not take him for serious unless he is busy at the sewing machine. At last week’s Afrikan Fashion awards held at Cayenne, the dreadlocked Latif Kasumba Madoi, a fashion tutor at Tina International School of Beauty and Fashion Designing, stunned the crowd when he styled five dresses [...]
Ace fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee was invited for an interactive session with the students of Institute of Apparel Management (IAM) on ‘High Fashion Industry: Present And Future’. Somesh Singh, joint director, IAM and Vandana Bhandari, professor and coordinator, Knitwear Design, NIFT, were also present on the dias with the designer. The session was attended by [...]
Trading in her textbooks for textiles, Berry College student Sydney Hulebak spent part of her summer with nationally-known fashion designer Billy Reid. Hulebak is a communication major with a concentration in public relations and an eye for well-designed clothes. She hails from Huntsville, Ala., not too far from Reid’s studio in Florence. Hulebak decided to [...]
“When I started New York fashion week in 1993, digital cameras did not exist and photographers used actual film,” Fern Mallis told a crowd of students, bloggers, and aspiring designers last night at the first in a series of conversations presented by Fashion GPS. “Today is a different world, everyone is a critic and the [...]
EQUATOR Academy of Art’s Fashion Design Technology class of 2008 took the fashion world by storm when they gave the public a glimpse of their creative talent during their graduation dinner held recently. Themed “Metamorphicâ€, the graduation dinner-cum-fashion show highlighted 42 pieces of evening wear, cocktail wear, casual wear, wedding wear as well as office [...]
The fashion world has long been filled with glitz and glamour. The ramp for models is always long, dramatic, and well-lighted. The walk is certainly a walk for fame, fortunately for aspirants but sometimes leading to a walk for shame. Who is behind all these promises and/or even breakdowns? No less than the fashion designers. [...]
Heidi Dillon, founder and CEO of The Fashionistas (www.thefashionistas.org), based in Dallas, today announced an innovative and groundbreaking partnership between The Fashionistas and the Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City (www.fitnyc.edu/museum). FIT is home to one of the most highly regarded fashion museums in the [...]
A PENDLE teenager aiming to emulate Stella McCartney has embarked on a top fashion course thanks to help from a countywide education scheme. Nineteen-year-old Natalie Baillie, from Colne, has begun a fashion degree at Salford University after completing a BTEC National Diploma in fashion and design at Blackburn College. Read more courtesy:www.burnleycitizen.co.uk
The Art Institute of Charleston is looking for high school seniors interested in pursuing a career in the fashion industry to enter the Passion for Fashion Competition. The contest was created to encourage and reward young fashion talent. One grand-prize winner in Fashion Marketing & Merchandising and Retail Management will be selected to receive a [...]
Starting end of 2008, New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology will show “Seduction”, an exhibition on 250 years of sexuality in fashion. With “Seduction”, the museum of the Fashion Institute puts on display over seventy looks and forty accessories, chronologically structured. The exhibition zooms in on the complex relationship between seduction and clothing, presenting a [...]