Give newcomers a go, says fashion chief Nov 6, 2009
THE head of Australia's most prestigious fashion school has criticised the local fashion in 00004000 dustry for failing to nurture new talent. The Sydney Institute this week had the best of the Fashion Design Studio's 2009 class but too few industry players were in the front row, said the director of the TAFE NSW Sydney Institute's Fashion Design Studio, Nicholas Huxley. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Five Questions for Christian Siriano Oct 26, 2009
for fashion school in London, Christian Siriano's taken to sashaying around in a floor-length white trench coat and pointy-toed boots. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bangalore fashion school suspends students Aug 9, 2009
City fashion school suspends students - Bangalore - City - NEWS - The Times of India ... City fashion school suspends students. (India Times, India)
Hawaii home-based artist reaches a global market Aug 6, 2009
Ricchiuti attended a fashion school where she majored in marketing, and worked for an Internet company before her daughter was born, two things she feels have allowed her to step ahead of the competition. Working on Web sites taught her how to build a brand and create an image. (Pacific Business News, HI)
Better Summer Buying -- Through Timing Jun 4, 2009
Editor Of All You Magazine Shares Tips On Finding Season's Best Deals. NEW YORK, June 3, 2009. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Isle-inspired line made for beach, boardroom May 8, 2009
Her mother, however, went to fashion school in Japan; now her daughter is living her dream. Umee is designed and made in Hawai'i with all natural fibers, mainly cotton. (Honolulu Advertiser)
IHT Sustainable Luxury Conference 2009: Breaking into the West is hard to do Mar 26, 2009
"The Western market is definitely about aspiration for our designers," said Rathi Jah, founder of India's leading fashion school, the National Institute of Fashion Technology. "It is not necessarily a market that gives them their bread and butter.". (International Herald Tribune)
Latinos, blacks losing jobs at a faster rate Mar 24, 2009
Tatiana Gallego, 25, who was laid off in December from her job as admission counselor at a fashion school in New York, uses her laptop at her home in Elmwood Park, N.J.. Mike Derer / AP. (MSNBC -- Business)
Larry Rosen on Fashion School, Desi... Mar 9, 2009
Larry Rosen on Fashion School, Designer Trends: CEO, Harry Rosen Menswear on What's New for 2009 ... Larry Rosen on Fashion School, Designer Trends ... Larry Rosen on Fashion School, Designer Trends. (Suite101.com)
PARIS FASHION WEEK: Fashion master or mentor? An agonizing choice for young talents Mar 6, 2009
Since he graduated from Central Saint Martin's fashion school in London in 2003, Pugh has been taken under the wing of the designer Rick Owens and his partner, Michele Lamy. Although Pugh's first collections were more show biz than business - making it as costumes for Kylie Minogue's tour - his extreme club clothes, with their inflated shapes and checkerboard patterns, have been turned into a buck. (International Herald Tribune)
Rebuilding fashion: Call in the architects Mar 3, 2009
As a designer of romantic fashion school, Antonio Marras made an intelligent turn toward the classic, founding his art-inspired collection on a strict grid. The designer listed his inspiration as "Picasso and the Masters," the subject of a recent Paris exhibition, but it was the Cubist floor pattern and the wooden closets as the backdrop that instilled the instant message. (International Herald Tribune)
Willow's Way Mar 3, 2009
At Willow headquarters in Sydney, she employs 18 people, including the young French design assistant she sponsored to Australia, sight unseen, on the strength of the girl's graduate folio from the Atelier Chardon Savard fashion school in Paris. "I just loved her work!" And, when Podgornik loves something, she's got to have it, do it, covet it, own it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
LONDON FASHION WEEK: Giles Deacon revisits his student days Feb 26, 2009
Apart from the doubtful wisdom of looking back at your own oeuvre when still so comparatively young, the recent fashion school graduates who have been exploring the 1980s on the London runways did not live through that era. And they might not have yet have grasped that it is tough to build a business by creating a logo that looks like Chanel's double C's and showing skirts with chunks of crystal embellishment that would challenge any woman to sit down. (International Herald Tribune)
Conquering London with intelligent design Feb 21, 2009
Although only 26, he has already attended fashion school in Paris, worked as an intern to Sue Stemp in New York and most recently joined a small team of designers at Vivienne Westwood in London ... When I came to London, I didn't know too much about Vivienne because her style hardly features in fashion schools in France. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
