Meal times

                Breakfast: 8:00 – 8:45 am

                Lunch: 12:30 – 1:30 pm

                Dinner: 6:00 – 7:00 pm

Weekdays will go as follows: 

9a.m. to 12 p.m. – Morning seminars - where students will be introduced to trend forecasting, fashion illustration, cad software, fabric dying and sewing.

12 p.m to 2p.m.  - Lunch and activities (will need student workers to be with them during this time)

2p.m. to 6p.m. – Afternoon seminars – students will put what was introduced and practiced in in the morning to use; students will be working on a specific task (described more below).

Breakdown of activities by day:

Sunday – Students will check in at 5, meet fellow students and staff at 6, and have a pizza social at 7.

Monday - Using computers, magazines, etc. to look at what it happening in fashion and why.  Students will compile pictures, fabrics, etc. to create a series of trendboards that will represent what they discovered in regards to current silhouettes, colors, fabrics, trims, details and more.

Tuesday – Students will learn the basics of Fashion Illustration.  We will be creating fully-rendered drawings of what their refashioned garment(s) will look like.

Wednesday – We will introduce Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop to the students.  They will learn the basics of how to draw flats using the computer. Specifically, they will draw flats of the designs that they did in the Illustration class.

Thursday – Students will work with AMD students who will assist them in transforming their garments to look like the designs they worked on in illustration and cad over the past two days. 

They will also work for a few hours with an AMD professor in the textile lab doing a hands-on dying technique with fabric.  

On this day, students will be broken into two groups with half sewing in the morning and the other half after lunch and vice versa for those working on fabric dying.

Thursday evening, students will put together a mini-portfolio of their work from the week that will be presented at the fashion show for the parents on Friday afternoon.

Friday – Students will assist in setting up the fashion show in the morning and have a run through or two for the show.  The parents will show up after lunch, have time to look at the portfolios and see a slideshow of their kids and what they did all week and then watch the show.  Refreshments and Hors d'oeuvres will be served.