Issue Date: 3/16/09
Fashion club gets ready for March
By Melissa Shante
For anybody interested in building a career in fashion, Palomar College Fashion Club offers an opportunity to dive headfirst into its world with trips, charity events and of course, fashion shows.
"We produce a lot," said Gavin Gilinski, a fashion design student who entered the program at 14 years old, "and we get involved in our community. It's a great start. "
The Fashion Club has a lot of activities planned for the spring semester. Coming up in March, the club will be holding a fashion show with the hopes of collecting donations of clothes, toiletries, and blankets to take to an all-girl orphanage in Mexico.
"Fashion is not just what you wear," said Deziray Cadman-Mendoza, the club's president. "You have to be able to understand your community and relate to it." The club will also be producing handmade T-shirts for the orphans.
In April, students will have the opportunity to add to their resume by working with the City of Escondido. Students can either compete in a visual merchandising contest where they will have five hours to create exciting representations of what Fashion Week is in empty storefronts in downtown Escondido, or, they can participate in a fashion show constructing crafty creations made of only recyclable materials. Winners will either receive a week long pass to Escondido Fashion Week April 6-11 or have a chance to have their designs seen on the runway.
These contests give the students an opportunity to work under real world deadlines and pressures that may otherwise be avoided in an everyday classroom setting.
As the semester winds down, students take all that they have learned and apply it to the grand finale; a live fashion show. Students are already working with models, designers and photographers as well. "This is really big! Everything is going down the runway!" Mendoza said in regards to the live event.
MODA, the Italian word for fashion, will be the theme for this year's fashion show. MODA will be held on May 1 at the California Center for the Arts, located at 340 N. Escondido Blvd. in Escondido.
For students who are a little skeptical about the cost of materials for projects, the Fashion Club also sponsors a scholarship. Applications are available for those who are in need. Awards will be given out in the form of gift cards for fabric supply stores.
There are no requirements or prerequisites for joining the club, but there are some qualities that the club looks for: "Definitely a love for fashion and learning. If you love to learn then you're basically able to succeed in all you do. And humor, too, humor is always important," Mendoza said.
If fashion is in your future, "this is where it starts," said Marsha Roberts, the advanced sewing instructor "Palomar gives you the skills that you can take you can take to your job."
The club meetings are held noon on Tuesdays in the FASH building or go to www.palomar.edu/fashion.
You can also contact the club's president at Deziray_JCM@Hotmail.com.
"We produce a lot," said Gavin Gilinski, a fashion design student who entered the program at 14 years old, "and we get involved in our community. It's a great start. "
The Fashion Club has a lot of activities planned for the spring semester. Coming up in March, the club will be holding a fashion show with the hopes of collecting donations of clothes, toiletries, and blankets to take to an all-girl orphanage in Mexico.
"Fashion is not just what you wear," said Deziray Cadman-Mendoza, the club's president. "You have to be able to understand your community and relate to it." The club will also be producing handmade T-shirts for the orphans.
In April, students will have the opportunity to add to their resume by working with the City of Escondido. Students can either compete in a visual merchandising contest where they will have five hours to create exciting representations of what Fashion Week is in empty storefronts in downtown Escondido, or, they can participate in a fashion show constructing crafty creations made of only recyclable materials. Winners will either receive a week long pass to Escondido Fashion Week April 6-11 or have a chance to have their designs seen on the runway.
These contests give the students an opportunity to work under real world deadlines and pressures that may otherwise be avoided in an everyday classroom setting.
As the semester winds down, students take all that they have learned and apply it to the grand finale; a live fashion show. Students are already working with models, designers and photographers as well. "This is really big! Everything is going down the runway!" Mendoza said in regards to the live event.
MODA, the Italian word for fashion, will be the theme for this year's fashion show. MODA will be held on May 1 at the California Center for the Arts, located at 340 N. Escondido Blvd. in Escondido.
For students who are a little skeptical about the cost of materials for projects, the Fashion Club also sponsors a scholarship. Applications are available for those who are in need. Awards will be given out in the form of gift cards for fabric supply stores.
There are no requirements or prerequisites for joining the club, but there are some qualities that the club looks for: "Definitely a love for fashion and learning. If you love to learn then you're basically able to succeed in all you do. And humor, too, humor is always important," Mendoza said.
If fashion is in your future, "this is where it starts," said Marsha Roberts, the advanced sewing instructor "Palomar gives you the skills that you can take you can take to your job."
The club meetings are held noon on Tuesdays in the FASH building or go to www.palomar.edu/fashion.
You can also contact the club's president at Deziray_JCM@Hotmail.com.
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