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Cool
Creations
for the Catwalk
Fashion Workshops for
Young People
London
College of Fashion and Fashion Awareness Direct
will be running two courses for young people
at Hackney schools and colleges in July 2004
with a taster day in March.
The
workshops will start with a taster day on Wednesday
March 24th. 9.30am - 3.30pm |
The
morning session will introduce students to current
fashion trends. They will then choose a theme from
a range of options and create a professional style
mood board of colours textures and images. In the
afternoon practising fashion designers will be on
hand to meet Year 10 students, show examples of their
work and discuss their professional experience. Year
11 students will be given an introductory session
on machine skills in a simulated industry workshop.
At the end of the day both groups of students will
leave with a copy of their mood boards, which will
form the starting point of the summer workshop.
The week-long fashion experience will take
place July 12th-16th, 9.30am – 3.30pm
Course
1 will focus on initiating Year 10 students
into the whole process of fashion design from initial
research through to a completed product. Workshops
will include visual research as inspiration, design
development, printed textiles and draping on the stand.
Students will learn how to construct a bag from a
pattern, which will then be styled and displayed in
the final day catwalk show.
Course
2 will target students who have attended
previous Fashion Awareness Direct workshops and students
studying fashion/textiles This follow up course will
focus on more advanced methods of fashion manufacture.
Using their mood board research as inspiration students
will customise a t-shirt and create a summer outfit
for the catwalk show.
Both
groups of students will also be taken on a visit to
the Fashion & Textile Museum in Bermondsey. At
the end of the course participants will have built
a complete portfolio reflecting the design process
and will receive guidance on how to transfer these
skills to application for entry into fashion colleges.
All
students will be expected to attend a taster day on
March 24th. These workshops are targeted
at Year 10 and Year 11 students from Hackney Schools.
Art, Design and Textile teachers at local schools
and colleges will accompanying them. After previous
workshops, teachers have commented on how the students
who have participated in the workshops are noticeably
more advanced than their peers thanks to the motivation
and skills gained through the project.
The
workshops are ideal for adults from a diverse range
of backgrounds and cultures seeking to find out more
about the structure of fashion colleges and fashion
processes in the UK.
The
courses are funded by the Learning Skills Council
London East and the Enterprise Pathfinder and are
supported by the Learning Trust.
Venue:
London College of Fashion at the London Institute
182 Mare Street
Hackney
London E8
For further information contact
Reyes on 0870 751 4449
or
by email to reyes@fad.org.uk
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