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<\/a><\/p>\nTaylor continues to work at her art teacher\u2019s studio teaching fashion design. She started doing inventory in the studio store but was quickly moved to assisting the classes for younger children. She then was able to teach with a partner and soon, on her own. I asked about her career prospects, \u201cI want to go into fashion merchandising.\u201d She is taking FIT\u2019s HMF064 Ins and Outs of Fashion Merchandising<\/em>, \u201cthe main theme of the class is imagery, so looking at what makes brands stand out and what draws people to them.\u201d<\/p>\n-Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taylor Orsino, from Staten Island, was determined to leave her mark on her school\u2019s homecoming. She decided to make a\u00a0goal of hers to design the homecoming tee-shirts.\u00a0Her art career began when her school\u2019s art teacher told her about a class she taught at a private studio, \u201cshe handed me fliers for the class, and from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7503,44208],"tags":[146,7528,9539,44223,44208],"class_list":["post-13041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsevents","category-student-spotlight","tag-fashion-design","tag-fashion-merchandising","tag-fit-precollege","tag-matthew-mal","tag-student-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WbqN-3ol","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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goal of hers to design the homecoming tee-shirts.\u00a0Her art career began when her school\u2019s art teacher told her about a class she taught at a private studio, \u201cshe handed me fliers for the class, and from there I joined fashion design.\u201d She joined the homecoming committee at her school and began creating designs. She tried several but none caught on. This Viking with a skeleton face (below) was outright rejected by her school. She combined her carnival tent and Viking design (below), and this ultimately ended up being the design that her school\u00a0<\/b>picked. \u00a0According to Taylor, her shirts were a big hit at her school, \u201cThey sold out. I didn\u2019t even get one.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"IMG_0469\"](\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_04691.jpg\")
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