fashion design - Come and meet Gill from England
artist of this week is fellow leatherworker. Come and meet Gill from England! Briefly describe what you make? I make retro style suede and leather belts. What mediums do you enjoy working in most? Leather would be my material of choice. Its available in a whole range of finishes and colours and some of the textures are amazing. 13 days ago THE ART OF CRAFT Authority: 10 fashion design a ers : Think About Your Client This weekend while everyone was out during the shopping craze, I was able to catch a replay of episode 2 of Project Runway in which the designers were given the challenge to create an outfit for Sarah Jessica Parker's BITTEN line for Steve Barry's. 14 days ago TheRunwayScoop - For the Fashion Industry Authority: 102
vivienne westwood, christopher bailey and Stuart Vevers. remarkable american fashion design schools contain ministers the new School for Design and Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.) in New York City, Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts, Drexel University and Moore College in philadelphia offer fashion design of programs, the institute for shape of Design and Merchandising (F.I.D.M) and A.I.U. in Los Angeles alumns include Uriel Saenz and Ashley Paige, and more specialized in French Haute Couture techniques, Academy of Couture Art in West Hollywood. According to the annual survey from US News, Parsons has recently lost its position as the top school in the U.S. for graduate art programs; now The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (S.A.I.C) has shifted up in the list and taken its place. This is being attributed to Parsons loss of Tim Gunn as a faculty member of their fashion program, who resigned to become the Creative Director for Liz Claiborne. SAIC: Founded as the Chicago Academy of Design in 1866 by a collective of studio artists, the institution went through many changes before the turn of the century, some necessitated by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The collecting arm of the School was founded in 1872, and The Art Institute of Chicago was born in 1882 to accommodate a distinct museum and school. The Art Institute moved to its current iconic location on Michigan Avenue after the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and it remains the largest museum-school partnership in the country. Notable fashion alumi include Halston, Gemma Kahng, and Cynthia Rowley.