| Recent Graduates of the Academy of Art University Fashion School Debut Spring 2008 Collections During Mercedes-Benz ...
Academy of Art University will present the Spring collections for 2008 of recent graduates during Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week on Saturday, September 8th at 7:00 pm in 'The Tent' in Bryant Park in New York City. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 23, 2007 -- The top fashion design school at Academy of Art University will present the Spring collections for 2008 of recent graduates during Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week on Saturday, September 8th at 7:00 pm in 'The Tent' in Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue at 41st Street in New York City. "Part of our commitment to the graduate designers is to help launch their careers and have their collections seen by as many industry people as possible," said Dr. Elisa Stephens, President of Academy of Art University. "Debuting the collections during New York Fashion Week makes sense as the national and international fashion community is in town at that time." .
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.
TIM GUNN DOES PAGE SIX
Tim Gunn is going into the closet. The "Project Runway" mentor and unexpected TV star has his own show, a self-help fashion series that aims to show American women how to look and feel better about themselves, even if means trashing their bad clothes. In "Tim Gunn's Guide To Style," the former chair of the fashion design department at Parsons School of Design, who used "Runway" as a springboard to a new career as chief creative officer at Liz Claiborne, will do for women what he did for dozens of "Runway" contestants: help them make it work. "I'm a fashion therapist, not a fashion Svengali," Gunn says with the reassuringly precise cadences that have made him the most articulate adult on television. "This show is not an intervention. I engage in a verbal contract with the women.
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.
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