Fashion Design Students Give Taste of Their Work at Fashion Show at "The Taste of Lincoln Avenue"
Fashion students from International Academy of Design and Technology in Chicago coordinate and produce events as a class practicum.
Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) July 19, 2005 -- This summer, fashion design
students from International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT) in Chicago
are displaying their talent and expertise in a series of summer fashion show.
The next show will be at the "Taste of Lincoln Avenue" event. This event began
in 1984, as a way to help fund the Wrightwood Neighbors Association, and to
provide financial support for local schools and non-profit organizations through
grants. It began with crowds of 10,000 attendees, and has now grown to more than
50,000 visitors for the two-day event.
The half hour fashion show will
be on both Saturday and Sunday, July 30th and 31st. at 6 pm.
As part of
the Merchandising Management curriculum Fashion Show Practicum, these Fashion
Design & Fashion Merchandising classes work all summer on events which they
run themselves, including fittings, dressing and supervision of the Ford models
that are used in the show, garment selection and preparation, choreography,
music, and full set up and breakdown of the show. IADT (http://www.iadtchicago.edu/) is a career-focused school that
offers training in fashion design and classes that are relevant to a future
career.
The junior and senior level student’s work began in May with the
International Academy of Design and Technology’s 26th annual student fashion
show, IMAGINE 2005, sponsored by General Motors’ North Central Region. It was a
student-produced event, showing some of the season’s most innovative and
memorable fashion concepts. The summer shows will use some of the same garments
from IMAGINE, some new ones, some from former shows; from casual to wearable art
for evening.
IMAGINE is a uniquely student-produced event, with
involvement going well beyond IADT’s fashion design majors. IADT advertising and
design/computer graphics students created the logo, poster, invitations and
program for the event. Computer/3D animation and audio for the show was produced
by the school’s multimedia and design students, technical support by PC/LAN
students, set design by interior design students, and show production support by
merchandise management majors.
Travis J. Reed, a graduate of IADT who has
an extensive resume in the fashion field, mentors these students as the
instructor of classes. He brings his experience at the Flagship stores downtown
Chicago of Marshall Fields, Anne Taylor and Sears, and shares his passion for
visual merchandising. Covering the entire gamut of fashion marketing his classes
include Visual Merchandising, Advanced Visual Merchandising, Fashion Show
Production, Fashion Show Practicum, Fashion Technology and Retailing Practices
and Principles.
IADT is located at One North State Street, downtown
Chicago. IADT-Chicago is Accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent
Colleges and Schools. The schools programs are offered in a variety of
disciplines based on a strong heritage in fashion and an expanding emphasis on
high technology education.
http://www.iadtchicago.edu/
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