What's the Stitch? Camp Fashion Design teaches teens industry basics
New York Daily News
Taking part in Camp Fashion Design's sketch/design class, overseen by Hasaan Rozelle
Former fashion model Heather Cole is making summer camp a lot more chic.
She has launched Camp Fashion Design, which began its first summer session in the city on July 10. It’s a sister program of Cole’s Modeling Camp, which she started back in the late 1990s.
“There are so many avenues in the world of fashion, and that’s why we did this camp,” Cole says. “You don’t just have to be a model. You could be a designer or a photographer.”
Camp Fashion Design doesn’t come cheap. It’s $999 for what’s billed as an intensive, four-day day program designed to teach teen girls the ins and outs of the fashion biz.
With help from “Project Runway” season four modeling winner Lisa Nargi, Cole is showing her campers what being a fashion designer entails.
The campers range in age from 12 to 17 and come from all over the U.S. and the world. They tour the Garment District and get to meet representatives from top fashion schools and models who have worked in the industry. The girls learn the design process from start to finish.
Campers get sketching lessons from industry professional Hasaan Rozelle, who has worked with DKNY and Perry Ellis. After they learn how to put their ideas on paper, students are shown how to pitch their ideas, pick out fabrics and construct their pieces.
“We’ve been planning this curriculum for a while now,” Cole says, “so to see it come to fruition is a lot of fun.”
It’s hardly Cole’s first summer camp program. Her website claims that 4,500 young women have participated in her programs on a range of subjects, like modeling, fashion and manners. (In 2005, Cole became a certified expert in children’s etiquette.) She runs camps in Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto and Virginia, where it all started.
For Cole, teaching the next generation of models and fashion industry wanna-bes was a career switch that made sense once she became a mom.
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Curveny 2012 designer lingerie and swim show
Examiner.com
Jacob Javits Center, NYC. CURVExpo held day one of their three-day Spring/Summer 2013 CURVENY Designer Lingerie & Swim Show, where over 200 labels exhibited their latest collections to retailers, colleagues, shoppers and members of the press. Several exhibitors hired models to wear lingerie and bikinis so guests can see ... Shawn Punch is a New York based photographer with a strong passion for photographing fashion shows! Each season he covers more than 100 runway shows and events, by labels such as Oscar De La Renta, Louis Vuitton, Ports 1961, Blanc de Chine, Kirstie Kelly for Disney and others...
Simply Stylist Announces First Ever New York Fashion Week Panel
PR.com (press release)
Los Angeles, CA, August 06, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Simply Stylist, the LA based brand consultant and special events company, announces today their New York Fashion Week event complete with networking luncheon, style expert fashion panel and designer shopping event. In addition, School of Style will be hosting a 30 minute breakout session for all attendees that are interested in learning how to style. Throughout the event, a celebrity stylist will be on-site assisting attendees shop based on their body type and style, and to cap off the evening, there will be a blogger ‘style-off’ contest.
The Simply Stylist New York event, held on September 9, 2012 from 1PM – 7PM at the W New York, offers an exclusive opportunity for like-minded fashion lovers to interact, engage, and network with one another while gaining valuable information about the fall trends and an inside peek into the fashion industry through the eyes of the expert panelists.
Patch.com
Headlining the Ashley Stewart Store's grand opening at Arbor Place Mall, Cover Model Venessa De La Rosa will be hosting a fashion show as part of a three-day event, held on Aug. 10 through Aug. 12. De La Rosa will be appearing in Douglasville fresh off of this summer's Full Figured Fashion Week runway in New York. The “Face of Full Figured Fashion Week 2012” will host the grand opening festivities. All events are free and open to the public.
A Frugal NYC Fashion Week Alternative
CisionWire (press release)
September is the month for fashionistas worldwide to strut over to the Big Apple for New York Fashion Week (6 – 13 September). This year, budget-friendly nyma, the new york manhattan hotel is offering the chance to take in all this world-famous spectacle has to offer for a fraction of the price with its very own Frugal Fashion Week package.
The perfect base for weary shopaholics, nyma, the new york manhattan hotel is located in the heart of the action, just down the street from Macy’s and Fifth Avenue. For a limited time only, this budget-friendly New York hotel is offering a Frugal Fashion Week promotion from just $254.99 per room per night (which equates to £82 per person) based on two sharing, excluding taxes.
Available from 6 - 13 September, the package includes one-night’s accommodation, a free VIP coupon book (offering savings of up to 65 per cent) at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets as well as directions and two bottles of water in order to keep hydrated. Guests also receive complimentary continental breakfast, wi-fi and national phone calls.
nyma, the new york manhattan hotel also has a couple of suggestions to help fashion followers immerse themselves in New York’s Fashion Week:
For those wanting to schmooze and be seen at this ultra-glam annual event, quirky tour company Sidetour offers a unique glimpse that is usually only reserved for movie stars and socialites. Their VIP Fashion Week tour gives shoppers and their pals the chance to go behind the scenes of Walter Baker’s glamorous presentation. Escorted by Mintbox founder, Pialy Aditya, guests will enjoy a pre-show cocktail, get exclusive access to the designer’s invite-only presentation and meet the designer himself after the show.
Bill Blass Goes on Firing Spree
New York Magazine
Although Bill Blass's spring 2013 womenswear collection was "90 percent" finished and their usual stylist, Japanese Vogue's George Cortina, was rumored to be paid in full to work with the label during New York Fashion Week in September,* the brand abruptly decided to cancel the show entirely. (Other reasons to find this move odd, to say the least: They'd already secured a location, a PR agency, and a production agency for the show and purchased about $250,000 worth of Italian fabrics for the collection, according to WWD.) The label subsequently fired its entire womenswear team, including designer Jeffrey Monteiro.
Fern Mallis has revealed why she made the move from New York to India
Bloginity (blog)
The queen of New York Fashion Week made a shock decision to leave her post at global fashion management company IMG to branch out on her own. Speaking at the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai – an event Fern assisted in creating in her previous role - Fern discussed how people close to her in the industry took the news she was starting her own consulting company, Fern Mallis LLC in India.
“They’re just completely gaga and want to come with me!” Fern exclaimed to the Huffington Post. “Everybody I know wants to be in India with me.”
The Lakme Fashion Week is important as it encourages, nurtures and discovers talented Indian designers. Not only is the event special for Fern due to her role in making it the success it is today, but she also likes that it reflects the country’s growing influence on all aspects of the fashion industry. India’s fabrics, the colors and the people’s style are just some of the aspects of the culture that New York fashionistas can’t get enough of.
Read more: http://www.bloginity.com/2012/08/fern-mallis-revealed-move-york-india/#ixzz22tMlFLfw
