NEWS
Fashion/ID Student Event - March 5 - Downey
Fashion and Interior Design Student Workshop "Your Design Career: Color it Green" is on Friday, March 5, 2010 at the Energy Resource Center in Downey. The event is free but pre-registation required. Register here online or read flier for more info.
Pro Development Event - March 19 - Costa Mesa
Please join us at SoBeCa for a Professional Development Event designed for you. The event is free but pre-registration is required. Read flier below and follow link for easy online registration.
New Fashion Contributor
We welcome Sylvia Rubin, fashion writer from the San Francisco Chronicle and her feature for our FCS site on unique retailer Modern Apparel Clothing (MAC). We'll also provide links to some of her Chronicle stories. Here's a recent one on cutting-edge designer Samii.
Erin Bianchi on Fashion
Erin Bianchi, part-time instructor at Orange Coast College and PR Director at South Coast Plaza's Bloomingdales reflects on Fashion Week 2009. Are the big-ticket runway shows a thing of the past and what might the future hold for marketing new lines?
When we introduced Erin, she wrote about the recent world-wide effort to raise awareness about the plight of the fashion industry in today's economy, "Fashion's Night Out".
Fashion Future
Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times, takes a look at the future of fashion, the business model is changing. Here are a few related pieces from that special section: "Has Runway Reached a Fork in the Road?" and "The New Tastemakers"
Student Fashion Event
Long Beach City College will host a Fashion Event, October 2, at 10 am with special guest Adam Reiter discussing job strategies in today's Fashion economy.
Successful Beginnings
Lisa Ledeboer, Mt. San Antonio College offers some timely exercises to start the new semester. No matter the discipline, here are a variety of activities to engage your students.
Fashion Schools Adjusting
An article from Women's Wear Daily (WWD) shows how fashion schools are tailoring their approach to fit the new economy.
Fashion Meets the Street Art
A story by Caroline Ryder, Los Angeles Times, highlights a new concept boutique in Laguna Beach, 225 Forest, geared to the surf crowd but incorporating a harder street art edge, think tatoos and skateboards.
Industry Partnership Program
In an article taken from the spring issue of the CA-AAFCS Newsletter, Rachael Libolt, Palomar College writes about the Fashion Education and Industry Partnership Program she developed.
Online Textiles Class
The College of the Sequoias is offering a Textiles class completely online for Fall 2009.
CURRICULUM
Fashion is one of the largest, well-established industries in California. Fashion curriculum is designed to provide a career technical program of study for students interested in pursuing a career in Fashion: Merchandising, Design, Production, and Textiles. Courses within the curriculum will also provide part of the undergraduate requirements necessary for those students wising to transfer to a four-year institution. For more information on Fashion Curriculum, please see the Fashion Chapter of the recently updated FCS Program Plan 2009 or follow this link to the complete Program Plan 2009, featuring an Introduction, a chapter on Articulation and a Directory of Professional and Trade Organizations.
Final Mini-Grant Report from City College of San Francisco
Diane Green reports on the service learning program at CCSF allowing fashion students to work as consultants to transitional employment candidates from Goodwill Industries.
2009 Consumer Handbook
Syndicated columnist, Lew Sichelman, highlights the newly available and free the 30th Edition of the Consumer Action Handbook, a great resource for all disciplines.