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Tag: Fashion Knitwear  San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 27, 2008 -- Academy of Art University's fashion school is proud to announce that four fashion students have been granted scholarships from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.Ghazalaeh M. Khalifeh has won the prestigious $25,000 Geoffrey Beene Design Scholarship. Yun-Chieh Chang won a $10,000 scholarship, while Jaedoo Shim was selected to receive the $10,000 Clara Hancox Scholarship Award. Ashleigh Tucker received an honorable mention for the CFDA Scholarship.Designers of America, Inc. (CFDA) is a not-for-profit trade association of over 300 of America's foremost fashion and accessory designers. The organization is committed to supporting the development of the American fashion industry's future designers. The CFDA's Educational Initiatives provide support and resources for students at the high school, collegiate and post-graduate levels.About the School of FashionEstablished in 1929, Academy of Art University is the largest accredited private art and design school in the US with nearly 11,000 students throughout San Francisco as well as nationally and internationally through the online degree program. Over 1,500 fashion majors study under the guidance of professional fashion designers. The School of Fashion houses six concentrations: Fashion Design for Womenswear, Menswear, and Childrenswear; Textile Design; Knitwear Design; Fashion Journalism; Fashion Merchandising and Visual Merchandising.Additionally, the Academy's fashion program is the only school to show at New York Fashion Week at Bryant Park. This year, graduate fashion students debuted both Fall and Spring collections.Graduates have gone onto companies such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Banana Republic, Burberry, Chloe, Liz Claiborne, Oscar de la Renta, GAP Inc., Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Alexander McQueen, Nike, Nordstrom, Old Navy, Zac Posen, Pottery Barn, Reebok, St. John, Viktor & Rolf, Diane Von Fürstenberg, and Louis Vuitton to name a few.Academy of Art University is a member of WASC, NASAD, Council for Interior Design Accreditation (BFA-IAD), and NAAB (M-ARCH).
 

Tag: Embroidery Skirts Saturday marked an important homecoming for Philly-born fashionista Jamie Lewin of Phyl Couture. The hot young designer launched her spring and summer collection during a trunk show at Tony's on 3rd street in Old City.The collection, which showcases dresses, skirts and tops, keeps with this season's trends by incorporating a global inspiration."The collection was based on images of Morocco, the landscape, architecture, the colors," said Lewin.The clothes may look great, but Lewin says she tailored her collection to feel great too."It's all made of soft jersey fabrics so it's comfortable to wear and it's got a lot of hand details, embroidery and beading," said Lewin.Lewin learned the importance of technique throughout her study at the Fashion Institute in New York. Prior to launching Phyl Couture, she worked in merchandising for several big names including Armani, Ralph Lauren and Liz Claiborne.Today, Lewin runs her own show out of her own studio in the heart of New York's fashion district. Still, this Penn State graduate admits she has seen her set of challenges."It's a lot of work, more work than I ever thought of … and you just kind of learn as you go along."According to TONY's owner Pamela Dollak, Lewin's hard work has paid off.Dollak said, "Her line is super fun, super colorful and so comfortable. I've had nothing but positive feedback about her line."The Phyl Couture collection is available at TONY's throughout spring and summer. Prices range from $65 to $175. So, be sure to get your Phyl!(? MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Tag: Embroidery Sweater THE WORLD IS FLATSDress up a plain or casual outfit with these fun and funky floral-patterned flats. The ankle ties and ruching detail at the toe are irresistible. Available in beige and orange from J.Jill as a catalog/Internet exclusive, they are $49 per pair. Call 800-642-9989 or visit jjill.com.IT'S IN THE BAGGood weather is here and better weather is just around the corner so it's time to plan ahead for beach trips and casual outings in the sunshine. This straw beach bag in rainbow colors from T.J. Maxx includes a coordinating large bag, small bag, beach mat, lunch bag and pillow (but not the shoes pictured) all for $24.99.ASIAN FLAIRAsian-inspired embroidery floats across this soft pima cotton sweater. The hook-and-eye closures create a "kissing" front, providing a continuous background for the flowing floral motif. Available for $98 in three colors: rose (shown), celery and pearl from Garnet Hill; 800-622-6216, garnethill.com.
 

Female underwear drying on the clothes line (a stray strap, showing for a minute second was an inexplicable sin, punished by a long talk on appropriate attire). Never mind that the same men-folk lingered rather long on Baywatch and Victoria’s secret advertisements (in our foreign magazines) or that there was a huge pile of stinking rubbish, even bathroom trash right outside the very respectable middle-class colonies - another ’safai karamchaari’ strike. Women and their bodily functions just did not happen at home because there was something wrong with them.There was also a rather strange mixed message that popular entertainment and success stories of fellow females brought out. Men were settled when they got jobs. Women, after they get married. My career-oriented cousins were truly happy after good boys were found for them. Then there was this undercurrent of being appropriately attractive. Appropriate, of course stood for denying any whiff of innate sexuality - probably because sexuality stood for control. So hair was oiled and sleekly plaited away - no wanton stray locks. Clothes were clean, decidedly feminine, but woe if necklines went lower, or hemlines high. Anyhow by the late teens skirts were out - and pants too became non-female. “Attractiveness is important” was inculcated. So we powdered and plucked, painted and tweezed and worried about how we looked, even while being proper. Because after all the objectification and the problems thereof were strictly our issues, not at all the faults of a universe that treated us as property, not as human beings.We grew up to careers. To be engineers, doctors, MBAs. Not like women a generation before us, who had to be content with teaching. We grew to MCAs and computer courses. What they forgot to tell us, but reminded us, ever more subtly that it was not because of our innate mathematical or technical abilities, rather because it increased our marketability to ’dream catches’. If we were smart we had ’something going’ by the end of undergraduate college; if not, ’settled down’ in time, honouring tradition.That is when I learnt why I was like my mother, in voicing my opinions. Because I learned how to reply “Well I neither have wonderful genes (I am uniocularly myopic) to pass on nor a kingdom to rule, that it is time for me to settle down,” in reply to the officious, “You need to marry, women get more fulfillment when they have a family.” Then the questions, started. The whole lopsidedness of the equation. I had to work hard just to be who I am . That my 20 year old cousin had an option not to marry the ’nice man’ her parents found for her;since arranged marriage was an option she did not exercise, because she never knew that she had it. “Work twice as hard to be half as good,” a professor quoted once , but it became a hideous reality. The irrational gratitude at having been allowed to be ’normal’ – something, which I see every time I hear a woman praising her spouse for being so sensitive (men rarely talk about their wives being so caring, its an assumed duty of a spouse). The culture of fear - coming home before dark, staying wary of strangers, always having an emergency number on speed dial on a cell phone - indeed not venturing out without a cell phone.I wonder, how different it would have been had I been born a male. Would I know how the other half lived? Would I care, or would I attribute to ’gender difference’ the timid behaviour, the guilt of trying to be human even while bearing the burden of being female?
 

Tag: Preserved Vegetables Hilary Alexander samples the food, fake designer goods and stunning views of Beijing’s Olympic 2008 city… I was in Beijing for a major Yohji Yamamoto fashion gala, inside the Forbidden City, when I was able to get a morning off to sample some of the delights on the new tourist trail visitors to the Olympic Games will be able to enjoy.  A trishaw driver in a fake Yohji Yamamoto jacket Faking it: “Once you’re copied, it’s a sign of success in China” First stop was the site itself in the northern part of the city. For now, it is a major photo opportunity. Tour groups and local residents jostle for position on top of mounds of earth beside the turquoise, corrugated iron fence which rings the vast construction site, watched by nonplussed, hard-hat workers, squatting on their haunches, having a fag-break. Behind them looms the stadium where the opening ceremony will take place on August 8th at 8.08pm. It is known as the ‘Bird’s Nest - appropriate, since its latticed network of Preserved Vegetables is a giant version of one of the most famous dishes in Chinese cuisine – bird’s nest soup. The building where the swimming medals will be won and lost, however, which looks like a mammoth plastic, bubble-wrap parcel, is simply the Aquatic Centre. I also had the opportunity of visiting the Hou Hai district where ‘hutongs’ (alleys) thread past traditional stone houses – once the homes of Ching Dynasty officials and distant relatives of the last emperor – which have been turned charismatically into intriguing shops, bars and restaurants. I then strolled past ‘The Unique and Ultimate Refreshment’, close by ‘Casablanca Café’ and another establishment which bewilderingly identifies itself as ‘Tibetan Art Deco’. Another bar features Italian wine, ancient carvings of Indian dancers and German beer steins. And, just in time for the opening of the movie, there is, ‘Sex and Da City’. I sampled lunch at the South Silk Road, where a plaque on the wall proudly proclaims the restaurant to be the winner of The Third International Edible Funghi Cooking Competition. As exotic as they sound, I decide not to sample the ‘Boiled Bullfrong with strong-smelling preserved bean curd’ or ‘Fried Bee Pupae’. Dishes called Wikipedia, have nothing to do with the Internet site, but instead are the names for an encyclopaedic selection of mushrooms, steamed, boiled or fried with various vegetables and spices. After lunch I was excited to see one of our trishaw drivers is wearing a Y3 Yohji Yamamoto for Adidas black jacket, with the familiar white stripes and the name of the Japanese designer emblazoned in about 80pt caps across the back. On closer inspection, however, it revealed the designer’s name to be spelt ‘Yohji Yamamtoto’. “Oh, that’s fine,” a Beijing fashionista tells me later. “Once you’re copied, it’s a sign of success in China. It means your brand is famous.”