Prepare Now for Your Future in Fashion!
It's never too early to prepare for your career in fashion! Get a head start before joining Pima Community College's Fashion Design program by exploring the fun links and exercises below!
- Vogue - Runway Slide ShowsTo do: Choose a designer name and view the slide show of the designer's latest collection. Answer the following questions:
1) Do you like the designs? Why or why not?
2) Would you change or improve the designs in any way? (Fabrics, prints or color palettes, silhouette, accessories?)
3) Choose another designer until you find another collection you love. What do you love about it?
4) What's the designer's name? Always remember the names and some general information about each your favorite fashion designers.
5) Continue looking at differnent designers collections until you've found at least five that are working in a style that you admire and may want to emulate. Always remember the names and some general information about each your favorite fashion designers! - Fashion Designer BiographiesTo do:
1) Select from the list the name of a designer whose work you admire.
2) Read about the designer's life and design philosophy.
4) Look at images from designer's newest, and older, collections. Do you still love the styles the designer creates? If so, you may have found a clue to your own developing style as a designer! If not, go back and choose another designer until you find one whose work you love season after season.
5) Each season, keep an eye on your favorite designers' collections. Always ask yourself, what about each collection might influence your own work when you're a fashion designer. - Vogue DailyTo do:
1) Find a fashionista friend, and select any link from the Vogue Daily website.
2) From whichever link you select, review the images and information on the page. What's the purpose of the page? (Is it trying to advertise a product, or to inform readers?)
3) It takes many people in many different fashion-related careers to bring fashion images and fashion information to you. Race with your fashionista friend: Which of you can guess more fashion careers that contributed to creating every element on that web page? (Example, fashion designer, seamstress, patternmaker, graphic artists, fashion illustrator, fashion editor, stylist, photographer, etc.) - California Apparel NewsTo do:
1) Click on the "Classifieds" button (left margin)
2) Click on "Jobs Available - View Jobs Here"
3) There will be several pages of job offerings. Read about the qualifications for as many jobs as you can. (Even if you aren't interersted in the job yourself, you'll want to start knowing about the kinds of jobs available in the fashion industry.)
4) Find a job that you'd like to have.
5) Print off or write down the job title and related qualifications. Now you know what sorts of classes you'll need to take in college!
6) Determine if there are any classes you can take in high school that will help prepare you for college. (For example, learning to sew well in high school will make fashion design school a LOT easier - leaving you more time to work on advanced sewing techniques and sharpening your creativity, while all of your classmates are still learning how to thread their machines!)
To do:
- Find two celebrities in Teen Vogue
- Examine several photos of each celebrity to compare and contrast the way they dress.
- What can you tell about the personality of each celebrity based on the clothing they (or their stylist) choose?
Fashion Blogs
Blog: A "web log" or informational website that issues brief, regular posts (daily, weekly) presented in reverse chronological order. Typically, the content is centered around one topic, such as fashion, or a group of related topics. While blogging used to gravitate around private individuals sharing their daily life, style and interests, most successful blogs today are centered around content marketing through which bloggers profit by promoting products and services they recommend and that are potentially of use to the readers. Bloggers earn commission when their readers follow links from the blog to an online store and purchase recommended products.
