Tag: Sewing

  • Reflecting and Improving

    Hi everyone! So this week, after studying for tests and working on projects and completing countless hours of homework, I decided to look at some of my “earlier work”. I think it’s really important to reflect and improve in life; reflect on what you have done in the past and improve for the future. Here…

  • Fitting Fashion into High School

    My high school is very art-centric, more money gets poured into the art departments than any of the sports teams. I guess that comes with the location, there aren’t many places to play football in the middle of Manhattan. I’m lucky in this way, I myself being more artistic than athletic, I have had many…

  • Hey everybody! It’s Emily, the blogger from last fall with the chickens and the hurricane. I actually just moved back home, and the chickens are back in their coop in the backyard. Putting together a fashion design application portfolio is not the easiest task. Especially while juggling AP classes, homework, fine arts portfolios and costumes…

  • Congratulations Madison!

    CONGRATULATIONS TO MADISON BANASZEK WHO WAS JUST ACCEPTED TO FIT THIS FALL FOR FASHION DESIGN! Student: Madison Banaszek Major: Fashion Design Courses taken in Precollege Programs include: HAR 016 Creating the Fashion Figure HAR 087  Advanced Fashion Design Art Techniques HAR 089 Fashion Design Portfolio  HAR 091 Anatomy of Fashion HAP 026  Sewing for Fashion Designers…

  • Sewing, Sparkles, and Halter Tops

    This week I had free time in my sewing class. Well, I knew that I would have free time due to the fact that I had finished all my projects. My shirt had come out nicely, though I’m unhappy with the hemming as my machine had been giving my trouble. I brought enough fabric to…

  • Maybe Fashion Does Define Us

    You know how people, mostly people involved in the fashion industry, always talk about how fashion defines them? How without fashion or art, they would have no purpose? I usually find this amusing, while it might be true. As much as I love designing, nothing makes me happier than when I have successfully sewed, draped,…