Fashion Design Education
New York Fashion Week: The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition
For teenagers who fantasize about a career in the fashion industry, there may be no bigger opportunity to make that happen than The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition. High school seniors from across the U.S. and Canada send their best fashion designs and fashion marketing, merchandising and retail management concepts to New York City [...]
A Century of the Bra: Vogue Invented the Term 'Brassière'
The following is an article from The Independent: The bra was invented by an engineer of German extraction called Onto Titzling in 1912. He was living in a New York boarding house, and one of his neighbours, a voluptuous opera singer called Swanhilda Olafson, complained that she needed a garment to hoist her vast bosom [...]
Fashion Design Education
Looking to have your own fashion designs featured at fashion week one day? Formal training and education in fashion design are essential to creating the foundation necessary to get your foot into the door of the fashion design world. Whether you want to be a big-name designer based out of Paris or New York or [...]