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Experimental Materials
Posted in MSP Fashion on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Young fashion designers looked at paper dresses from the 1960′s and modern work by Hussein Chalayan and Yohji Yamamoto before using non-fabric materials to explore extreme volume and shapes.
Fabric Dying and other Fabric Manipulations
Posted in MSP Fashion on Sunday, March 4th, 2012
Young Fashion students looked at designers who use fabric manipulation in their designs such as Rodarte. They learned how to mix and prepare fabric dyes and various dying techniques such as ombré and over-dying colors to transform the white cotton fabrics into their own designs.
Pattern Making
Posted in MSP Fashion on Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Young SAIC fashion designers modified a basic bag pattern into their own original designs to sew fully lined bags.
Paper Dress
Posted in MSP Fashion on Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Looking at designs by Alexander Mcqueen, Rei Kawabuko and vintage paper dresses from the 60′s, young fashion designers at SAIC learned about Sculptural Fashion, Volume, Texture, and non-traditional shapes. They used pleating and folding techniques to drape garments on dress forms, with an emphasis on volume, experimental shapes, and texture.
Draping and Fabric Manipulation
Posted in MSP Fashion on Saturday, November 5th, 2011
After viewing the collections of Victor + Rolf and Yohji Yamamoto as well as a lot of historic and multicultural fashion, the 11 -13 year old fashion designers learned about transforming standard shapes into something new and complex using dying and draping techniques. The group started out with a basic white men’s shirt and sketches [...]
Fashion
Posted in MSP Fashion on Monday, October 17th, 2011
Middle School Program Fashion students took the first steps into designing their fashion lines by learning embroidery techniques and how to use their sewing machines!
Sculptural Accessories
Posted in 11-13 Year Olds Multi-Arts, MSP Fashion on Monday, August 8th, 2011
The eleven to thirteen year old artists met with partners in the Fashion Camp to discuss and design a collaborative project. The Multi-Arts campers will design accessories that correspond to the garment styles chosen by the fashonistas in Fashion Camp. The resulting wearable sculptures will accompany the Fashion Camp’s final show, as well as be [...]
Thrifty
Posted in MSP Fashion on Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Our Middle School Program Fashion Campers went on an exciting field trip to the Village Discount Outlet to thrift shop for clothes that will be used to create their collections for next week’s runway show. Each student is given a strict budget of $15.00 and they must make their choices carefully. Everyone got busy immediately [...]
You made that from WHAT?
Posted in MSP Fashion on Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Our young fashion designers spent Wednesday making their first designs from some pretty unlikely materials including coffee filters, garbage bags, tinfoil, etc. Check out some of these amazing avant garde wearable garments.
Style Wars
Posted in MSP Fashion on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Our first 2-week Middle School Program Fashion Camp started this Monday. Yesterday the campers went thrift shopping for vintage garments that will be used in future projects. When they got back to the studio it was time for all-out Style Wars. Style Wars is an improvisational exercise to generate quick ideas about garment and dress [...]
