In The Halls: Lorie

Student: Lorie (17) New Jersey
Program: Saturday Live
Precollege Course: 
HAR 016 Creating the Fashion Figure

Describe your personal style?
My personal style changes everyday. Some days edgy, some days boho. Currently I’ve been dressing in very simple dark pieces.

Where do you go on your breaks from class?
I like going to Moda, Starbucks, or Whole Foods for some fresh fruit.

 

What is your favorite thing about FIT?
I love how everyone is as creative as I am and the professors here are so helpful!

Who or what inspires you?
My mood and my surroundings inspire me the most, followed by music and other designers.

What do you want to do after you graduate from college?
After college I would love the travel the world with my job as a fashion designer. I just want to live a happy life!

MY BLOG: e-t-e-r-n-a-l-summer.tumblr.com

There can only be one (left)

There’s only one class left. Which is totally a crying shame. And perchance even a crime too!

I jest, I jest.

So on Saturday, I first had a panic attack. I had taken out some bags that were presumably full of fabric, and just fabric.

However, I thought that I had accidentally taken my zipper out, as I could not find it in my pile of fabric in the little closet where our stuff is kept while we’re not there.

After I got over my initial panicking, I went back into the closet to see if I had just overlooked it.

There was no zipper.

Though there was an awfully familiar bag.

So I went and looked in the bag.

It was my bag. In there was my zipper. My behind was saved! My dress could be made!

I then set up my machine with the cool invisible zipper foot, and sewed on my invisible zipper.

It was a blast; invisible zippers are super easy to put in, not to mention amusing!

Then I just sewed and sewed some more.

Afterwards, I went to the subway and traveled to Brooklyn.

I ended up exiting in Bushwick, and I found that the part of it which I was in to be very industrial.

The Shop-Up was in a bar, so with the large amount of people there it was jam-packed.

The food was delish, though. I wish I could eat lunch there every day. Yum!

There was chocolate, cookies, cinnamon buns, and a whole lot of other desserts, all cruelty-free. There was other food, too. I had a delish sandwich. It was seitan BBQ, I believe. It was spicy and perfect and so yummy, wow. (Hail seitan!)

I totally recommend going over there, if you’re in the area. It’s monthly, I believe.

Totally wishing it was Saturday forever,

Tessa

And then there were two…(left)

So it still hasn’t processed completely that there are only two classes left. Like, how can that be possible? Months have passed already?

But it feels like just last week I started high school?! And like it feels like yesterday when I first arrived at FIT, too?! What is this sorcery?

Let’s focus on the present, though. Or perhaps just next class. It’s close enough.

Being that I am not a mind reader, I just have to outline what I’d like to get done next class…

I’d like to finish the majority of my dress.

However, I do understand that that is a long shot, so I’d at least like to get to finish up the main part, the body of the dress, I guess, but not necessarily the sleeves. (And necessarily is a really hard word, for me to spell. It took Google’s help to figure it out. Oops.)

Anyways, I do wish that that can be completed, and that I’ll be able to wear the dress, as the weather’s starting to shape up, finally!

(Just ignore all the rain we had this week. It never happened. Wink-wink-nudge-nudge.)

Oh, also, after class I am taking the subway to Brooklyn for the Vegan Shop-up! All I’m really thinking is that it will be food galore, me-oh-my!

Dress…I hope that you will be finished soon! ♥

-Tessa

Instructor Spotlight – Gregg Woodcock

Gregg Woodcock is a Adjunct Instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology.  He hails from the Bronx and has a degree in Industrial Design with a minor in Transportation Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Mr. Woodcock teaches this awesome class:  HLD 031 SK8, Run and Jump into “SNEAKEROLOGY”


Sneaker freakers, fashionistas and advocates of all things different will love this course.  This class will walk you through the development of professional sketches for your own sneaker design.  You’ll learn the importance of design research in various markets including vehicle design, cultures, and music, and then use this research to develop drawings from thumbnails to ink line drawings of your original ideas.  You’ll learn the lingo of athletic shoe parts and become familiar with the process of creating product specifications to present to a company. You’ll also learn basic sketching and presentation techniques required for your portfolio.

Professor Woodcock’s Teaching Philosophy:

To engage the a student’s individuality; channeling what is great in them and how it applies to the course they are enduring.

On Precollege Programs:

“I’m a child at heart.  Teaching here takes me back to my younger days as an artist.  I know what I would have wanted to learn, who I would have modeled myself after and who I was impressed by and wanted to learn from.”

Industry Experience:

  • Lead designer for P. Diddy’s footwear operation
  • Designer of luggage and sport bags for Nautica, Chaps and Trump
  • Launched footwear for Mossimo 
  • Designed for Fila, FUBU Phat Farm, and Diane von Furstenberg

Advice for Students:

     “Be humble.  Find a way to absorb new knowledge.  Open your mind, eyes, ears and be fearless of any question.  Keep a sketch book- not only for sketches but for questions, passions, desires and dreams.”

À mon avis… {« in my opinion »}

Tuesdays are always sort of a ‘meh’ day…and I am writing this on a Tuesday.

It always seems a day of longing; it is close enough to the weekend for me to reminisce and wish that weekends never ended, yet far away enough for the small acute details to start to fade away from my memories.

Though I always say that I am done with the week by first period on Monday morning, Tuesday is when it really sits in.

So I start looking forwards.

The weekend is only three days away by Wednesday eve, the end of the day on Tuesday.

Being that with the weekend comes FIT.; there is only three days until I’m sitting behind my favorite machine facing towards the door, threading my machine, getting my bobbin straight, sewing the zipper on my dress, trimming the threads, all the things that I’ve come to really enjoy and expect from my Saturdays.

Last class, which feels like ages ago (see explanation above), I got all of the fabric for my dress cut out and started to sew and such. I did not get much done, as cutting the stuff out is really, really time consuming and annoying, in my (100% truthful) opinion.

Other than sewing, our professor showed us the video from the fashion show that displayed, if I recall correctly, the designs of the students receiving their bachelor degrees.

It was quite interesting, and from what I saw, the students’ designs were pretty and pretty well rounded.

I didn’t pay total attention, though, as I was cutting out my fabric. (Don’t tell my professor!)

Grrr, fabric, why are you so difficult to cut?

‘Tis the tidbit from this week!

Au revoir! (I feel in a French mood today. Mais, c’est la vie! “But, that is life!”)

-Tessa