| Teen fashionistas try industry for size at summer camp
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - While many U.S. students enrolled in sports or music camps this summer, a rising number of girls invested their time instead in a new type of program centered on catwalks and haute couture -- fashion camp. Enrollment in fashion-related majors at schools like New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons The New School of Design has risen in recent years, partly due to the popularity of reality television series based on fashion such as "Project Runway" and the hit movie "The Devil Wears Prada". So fashion camps held in New York, Ohio, California, Alabama and Canada were seen as giving teenage girls with a passion for fashion the chance to see whether they wanted to seriously pursue a job in the highly competitive industry. In New York, where about 169,000 people work in the fashion business, a group of 35 girls aged between 13 and 16 paid $1,095 each to join the first season of Fashion Camp NYC, comprised of five days of lectures, seminars and store visits.
AHS students make a declaration of fashion
Allen High School students N'keyah Mitchell and Miranda Sexton are far from last season's fashion don'ts. The two were selected from more than 100 applicants for the second-annual Fashion Camp at the Galleria Dallas.The mall is responsible for choosing 60 girls and boys in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to be accepted into Fashion Camp.Mitchell, a junior at AHS, said she first discovered her passion for the fashion industry when she was in fourth grade.After receiving a project in art class to design a costume, Mitchell said she knew she wanted to pursuit a career in fashion.With the support of her parents, Mitchell has continued to feed her interest.It was her mother, Nichollette Mitchell, who received an e-mail regarding the camp and suggested that her daughter apply. Mitchell has taken sewing classes for two years and wants to attend Parsons the New School of Design in New York City after she graduates high school.
Turkey's likely first lady takes fashion route
An Austrian couturier of Turkish heritage has been asked to redesign the politically charged headscarves of Turkey's likely future first lady, Hayrunisa Gul. Her Muslim headscarf has symbolised a dispute pitting Turkey's secular elite and the military against her husband Abdullah Gul's bid to become Turkey's president. The headscarf, seen by secular Turks as a threat to the separation of state and religion, is banned from public offices and schools, although more than half of Turkish women wear it. But in an apparent effort to show her ideas about fashion reach beyond the controversial scarf, she has asked a designer, whose collections adorn women ranging from Catherine Zeta-Jones to Naomi Campbell, to update her appearance for her expected new role.
Today's paper
• The front page of this morning's USA TODAY New 'badge' of cool: High-tech, high-fashion backpacksSAN LEANDRO, Calif. — Back-to-school dreams are designed here, just south of Oakland.Residents seek to mute train hornsCHICAGO — Scores of communities are exploring ways to silence the train horns that disrupt daily life and residents' sleep.Trapped miners 'may not be found'HUNTINGTON, Utah — Rescue workers began drilling a fifth hole Sunday in their search for six coal miners missing for two weeks even as an official said they could be forever entombed deep inside the mountain. • Other sections: Sports front page | Money front page | Life front page .
Grief counselors on hand after Lincoln-Way death
Grief counselors will be available at Lincoln-Way East High School next week after a 16-year-old Mokena girl died unexpectedly of septic shock Tuesday. Medical authorities continue to investigate the exact cause of Kelly Neff's death. Family members believe toxic shock syndrome, possibly caused by tampons, contributed to her death. The results of an autopsy will be available in a few weeks, according to family members. Kelly was a straight-A student who wrote poetry in her free time and was looking forward to applying for college, her uncle said. Kelly died at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. "She had a desire to go into fashion design, and she was an accomplished writer," said her uncle Carl Agoston, who was speaking on behalf of her family.
Teen fashionistas try industry for size
While many US students enrolled in sports or music camps this summer, a rising number of girls invested their time instead in a new type of program centered on catwalks and haute couture - fashion camp. Enrollment in fashion-related majors at schools like New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons The New School of Design has risen in recent years, partly due to the popularity of reality television series based on fashion such as "Project Runway" and the hit movie "The Devil Wears Prada". So fashion camps held in New York, Ohio, California, Alabama and Canada were seen as giving teenage girls with a passion for fashion the chance to see whether they wanted to seriously pursue a job in the highly competitive industry. In New York, where about 169,000 people work in the fashion business, a group of 35 girls aged between 13 and 16 paid $1,095 each to join the first season of Fashion Camp NYC, comprised of five days of lectures, seminars and store visits.
Sweat pants are ‘in’ for this year’s school fashion
MOUNT VERNON — The love of fashion has no age boundaries or height requirements. The new school year begins this week for many students, and Knox County students — from kindergarten through high school — are as excited about the hot back-to-school fashions as any designer in France. This year’s look for young people is casual, comfortable, fun, layered and a little funky. At Fashion Bug, assistant manager Angela Wright noted that the "retro" 1980s are influencing today’s fashions. "The darker denim is coming back," she said, noting midnight blue jeans on a rack. But on another rack are what she called "sandblasted" denim, a light baby blue fading to almost white. "Those are very 80s," she said. "So you see, two extremes." Wright also pointed out knitted tops in ’80s jewel-tones of deep red, purple and green, and said jeans with wide legs are back.
Local school offers services from wild to mild
MONROE -- The annual avant-garde styling contest was recently held at Four Seasons Cosmetology School in Monroe. The contest is designed to showcase the creativity and technical ability of the students. Each student designs their own wild style and then completes it on a mannequin head. In this contest, everything is "en vogue" where designs have included forks, feathers, electric lights, leaves, beads, hair color and miniature umbrellas, among other things. According to lead instructor Kristin Allison, "The design themes are similar to those that you would see in platform artistry and on a runway at fashion shows." The winner of the contest is established through voting by clients. This year's winner was Nora Wenger. Photographs of five contest entries, along with the student who created them, are shown above.
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