If you want to be a top designer today, you need to go up a fashion school, and New York has two schools in the world's best fashion. FIT and Parsons
Students in today's fashion FIT, on the 27th and 7 Avenue in New York, student life a lot easier than my class fashion design at Parsons in 1964, is located.
In the 60s, Parsons was in a converted garage on 54th Street East, and it was certainly visually unfriendly crowded with small rooms, missing a large open spaces and elevator ugly gray.
Today, the two schools have beautiful fashion large campus and classrooms near 7th Avenue with all the shops in the center of clothing supplies handy. FIT, where I am now a critical (this year, I have the distinction of Adrian), restaurants can, galleries, courtyards and an auditorium, where a stage designer as I give lectures with hundreds of students at a giant. We can. Even our own films on a big screen with all the attributes of the city's universities
My 30-some students who are in their early 20s, come from all over the world. The central courtyard at lunch looks beautiful world in United Nations Plaza.
Each student is highly motivated because they got the most talented young people in their respective countries, to New York to learn not only how to draw, drape or sew, but how to learn to compete, which is the basis for, the world of fashion. Designers must learn to beat the competition, not only for the price, but for the purpose, the optimum is to outsell the competition.
Just go to the FIT is a pleasure for the designer. I followed a naked blonde-backed road 27, and later that day I went to get a shirt blue tiles cut for me to buy.
I loved this new idea on the first day of school at the end of August to carry with the see-through lace skirt and matching beige blue slippers. (If we dressed so in 1962, we would have been discarded.)
I had to wear big problems at Parsons in autumn 1962 mini dresses to look first in New York, while four inches above my knees, and I was called into the dean's office and a warning. I refused to renew my skirts, and actually shared with Mia Fonssagrives, which also began to wear short skirts and then there were two of us flashing bare legs. And, as was his stepfather Irving Penn at Vogue, sighed leaders Parsons and gave up.
The miniskirt started our career, and in two years we have been photographed in Life magazine, to bring the mini Parisian couture. We do not call for the creation of mini-New York 1962, and Mary Quant has effectively abandoned the property of the first Mini, now say that it came from the street. Yes, there are two fashion students came on the road, which still new to the next thing.
When I teach students, I tell them that they always wear their own clothes, where to go, even on grounds of race, and promote their art and themselves as a package. At FIT, taking both men and women, students with an individual style. Menswear designer Thom Browne has with the costume he wore pinched shop changed.
The teacher, Barbara Arata-Gavere, is a designer and painter Frank Gavere married. We had clothes that were inspired by Hollywood and choose Adrian, who were also new and wearable today! I insist on the creation of fashion, salable. Artists can create, the designers need to sell something, and a lot.
I took Nelly Guinand dress and clear plastic casing, not realizing it was also a great natural beauty which does not hurt in the world of fashion. There are exceptions, Coco Chanel created her extraordinary beauty with new creative style. Pauline Trigere, Elsa Schiaparelli and Edith Head have each created their own style, screamed as the big oversized head Sonia Rykiel red hair or white sunglasses Emmanuelle Khanh, "I'm here" when she entered a room. The fashion world knew by sight.
I was invited by friends in the industry that I can not post a comment at my old school, Parsons, and the answer is simple, they do not ask! George Simonton, renowned designer and professor at FIT shows I asked to talk to his school when he said that I had heard a lot of time in New York. I was witness to their classes and students love it, and I try to follow in his footsteps on TV as it is on QVC, and I'm now on HSN. George believes that the sales of televisions luxury dress still be stronger growth in the future.
The world of fashion is constantly changing, but one thing remains the same - the talent is readily apparent, and a lot of work in the industry welcomes young and hungry.
But it's not all, in addition to the effort you want to be an artist more than anything else ... just ask my husband!
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