| 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.
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.
Vocational Schools Work Better, Report Says
Labor and business groups are calling for a dramatic expansion in vocational high schools after a report released yesterday showed that the schools are graduating more students and losing fewer dropouts than are city schools overall, even as advocates say support for them has stalled. In the class of 2005, 63% of career school students graduated in four years compared to 58% citywide, and just 10% dropped out compared to 15% citywide, a 2006 state Board of Regents report found. Career school students also performed far better on Regents exams, with more than 80% gaining high scores in math, English, and science compared with 55% or less citywide. Yet the 22 city high schools that teach such skills as auto mechanics, fashion design, and podcasting alongside the traditional curriculum receive $265 less per student in funding, and just 12% of career programs have been given state certification, the report said.
African renaissance arrives on the catwalks
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Designers are using South Africa's premier fashion event to showcase the ethnic diversity and traditional culture of the Rainbow Nation as well as demonstrate a growing national pride. Ostracised during the apartheid years, South Africa is now attracting growing interest from the international fashion industry as designers try to reflect the "African Renaissance" trumpeted by the country's President Thabo Mbeki in their catalogues and catwalks. But if the creations are attracting more overseas interest, it appears most black South Africans have yet to be seduced. "Traditional style was not common until the new South Africa," explains Mantombi Ngcoya, a designer for the MED (Mantombi ethnic design) label, while presenting her designs on the margins of the 11th "South African Fashion Week" which is currently being staged in Johannesburg.
Business camp tapped students’ creative energy
The ideas were as diverse as the kids who came up with them. The experiences were as varied as the hometowns from which they came. The talent in the room was as evident as the noise was loud. And the enthusiasm and inspiration were infectious and encouraging. It was Entrepreneurship Camp 2007, a cooperative program of University of Missouri Extension, jointly sponsored by our office, the University Center for Innnovation and Entrepreneurship, and the 4-H Center for Youth Development. The College of Engineering, College of Business, MU Career Center and Office of Community Enterprise and Economic Development provided valuable sponsorship assistance. The 12 kids, whose average age is 15, came to us from St. Louis, Caruthersville, Kearney, Fredericktown, Concordia, Columbia, Fulton and Jefferson City.
Parents fail sex education
The vast majority of parents are failing in their parental duty of ensuring their children were informed about sex education. If they weren’t failing, schools would not be foisted with yet another parental duty “If groups such as Ministry of Women’s Affairs want to genuinely target New Zealand’s high teen pregnancy rate, then they should be targeting families to get parents to carry out their responsibility to educate their own children on sexuality,”says Pat Newman. “More importantly if families took the time to actually teach their children real values, and controls to assist them from partaking in teen sex, then we might actually do something that would work” says Pat Newman. .
Bridge Festival is set for Saturday
SARANAC - Saranac is gearing up for a day of festivities on Saturday for Bridge Festival.Bridgefest celebrates the five bridges of Saranac, but it also gives recognition to five community members this year with parade grand marshals, citizen of the year and business persons of the year.In its 21st year, the Bridge Festival began when planned repairs on two of the bridges concerned village business owners that it would drive away business. .
Hollywood women put on a disappearing act
I'm searching for body fat in Hollywood. It's the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, and judging by the standards of the youth-obsessed network's magenta carpet, blubber — let alone curves or even softness — is out of fashion. Girls — and I mean girls, given their lack of womanly heft — glide by. Jessica Biel, in a loose black mini-dress. Jessica Alba, with sylphlike arms rising above her red puffy mini-dress. Cameron Diaz, at 34, the veritable grandma of the bunch in a black micro-dress, only inches longer than a bathing suit. Not one woman won an award that night, but the few female presenters hovered like ethereal specters over giant, solid, male movie stars including Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell. Host Sarah Silverman, in a parade of girlish dresses, presided like the tiny, squeaky-voiced, mean girl from every high-school nightmare.
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