Project Fashion Designer

Grades 9–12

About the Instructors I Typical Day

Learn to turn creative fashion ideas into unique catwalk creations! Using garment industry standards, begin with sketches and illustrations and bring your vision to life after learning about current fashion trends, fabrications, forecasting, color theory, and human body characteristics that determine the way clothing fits and flows. Gain hands-on basic sewing techniques as you learn how to make different seams, seam finishes, and hems, and lay out and cut a pattern. Projects may include skirts, tops, ponchos, redesign of vintage items, and/or other basic sewing projects. Whatever you decide to create, you will have the stage to show off your work at the culminating fashion show! Create a small illustrative collection and learn rendering techniques and presentation formats. Projects in the course will help you create your portfolio. Receive a DVD of the fashion show!

To broaden exposure to the arts, Project Fashion Designer can be combined with the Songwriting Workshop, Creating Comic Books and Graphic Novels, Shakespeare Workshop (new!), and/or Choral Conservatory to make for a well-rounded summer experience.

Session II: July 9–20
Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
$1,165 for the first registration
$1,045 for the second registration in the family, Purchase College employees and alumni, and early registrations (received by May 4, 2012)

About the Instructors

Gwenveria Sargeant (lead instructor) is a fashion design graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology and a seasoned and innovative designer/merchandiser of women’s wear. At FIT, she has taught as an adjunct professor in the fashion design–art department and currently teaches fashion design as a guest professor in the Educational Opportunity Program.

Beth Kroupa (instructor) worked in the garment industry from 1981 to 1996. Her job in juniors took her all over the world, trend shopping in Europe and sourcing in Asia. Three children later (and hours of art work in their schools), Ms. Kroupa went back to school for a master’s in art education. She is currently teaching art in the Yonkers public school system and still possesses a passion for fashion.

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