1. What is the best way for a fashion designer to achieve a spot in LA Fashion Week?
2. What is LA Fashion Week?
3. What is the process of achieving a spot in LA Fashion Week?
4. How should a fashion designer get their name out there?
5. What might be the biggest obstacle a fashion designer would have to overcome in order to earn a spot in LA Fashion Week?
6. Does a designer know they've "made it" if they've been to LA fashion week, if so, why?
7. What are some qualities a designer should have that would help them become recognizable in the fashion industry?
8. Who would you expect to see at LA Fashion week?
9. Why is fashion week in LA a big deal?
10. How did you feel about yourself once you claimed a spot in LA Fashion week?
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours Check
1. I am doing my mentorship with a fashion designer's assistant at David Meister.
2. My contact is Mary Vilchis.
3. I have completed a total of 11 1/2 hours so far.
4. I have helped filed the book of designs, I've learned about the money and how the pricing works, I've met "the team" of people in the production process, as well as I've helped maintain the big binders that hold all the designs they've had over the years.
2. My contact is Mary Vilchis.
3. I have completed a total of 11 1/2 hours so far.
4. I have helped filed the book of designs, I've learned about the money and how the pricing works, I've met "the team" of people in the production process, as well as I've helped maintain the big binders that hold all the designs they've had over the years.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Senior Project Update
1. As of right now, I'm trying to figure out when the next fashion show is, so that I can start attending some of the work days that lead up to that. However, because the holidays are a busy time for most fashion designers because there are piles or work to get done, so being patient is my best bet right now.
2. I just picked up a good book called, Style and the author is Lauren Conrad, who is best known as the star of an old show on MTV, The Hills. I was skeptical at first when I bought this book, but now that I've started reading it, I'm glad I bought it. I love her sense of style. This book is all about clothing basics, make-up basics, and accessories basics with lots of helpful hints. This book has definitely helped me want to start a collection of fashion books/books about fashion.
3. I plan on going to meet up with my mentor later this week to start talking about a fashion show and how she can get me involved so that I can have a hands-on experience.
2. I just picked up a good book called, Style and the author is Lauren Conrad, who is best known as the star of an old show on MTV, The Hills. I was skeptical at first when I bought this book, but now that I've started reading it, I'm glad I bought it. I love her sense of style. This book is all about clothing basics, make-up basics, and accessories basics with lots of helpful hints. This book has definitely helped me want to start a collection of fashion books/books about fashion.
3. I plan on going to meet up with my mentor later this week to start talking about a fashion show and how she can get me involved so that I can have a hands-on experience.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Science Fair Proposal
1. Fashion
2. "If you want to achieve success in the fashion industry and become well-known, I highly suggest you go out there and intern, intern, intern. That's where you're going to learn the most about how this industry works."
Vilchis, Mary. "Interview." David Meister Designs, 19 Oct. 2012.
3. If someone is going to intern with a label, they're going to achieve a spot in LA Fashion Week.
4. I plan on looking into designers who got their start as an intern and where exactly they had first started whether it be a smaller label or a bigger label. This information would then be put into graphs and/or tables to see if it is true that if you want to become something in the fashion industry, you should intern. I also want to make comparisons to those that achieve a spot in LA Fashion Week because they started off at the bottom, as interns, as opposed to those that didn't intern and somehow managed to achieve a spot in LA Fashion Week. This would give me insight as to whether my second answer is accurate or not.
5. Behavioral/ Social Science
2. "If you want to achieve success in the fashion industry and become well-known, I highly suggest you go out there and intern, intern, intern. That's where you're going to learn the most about how this industry works."
Vilchis, Mary. "Interview." David Meister Designs, 19 Oct. 2012.
3. If someone is going to intern with a label, they're going to achieve a spot in LA Fashion Week.
4. I plan on looking into designers who got their start as an intern and where exactly they had first started whether it be a smaller label or a bigger label. This information would then be put into graphs and/or tables to see if it is true that if you want to become something in the fashion industry, you should intern. I also want to make comparisons to those that achieve a spot in LA Fashion Week because they started off at the bottom, as interns, as opposed to those that didn't intern and somehow managed to achieve a spot in LA Fashion Week. This would give me insight as to whether my second answer is accurate or not.
5. Behavioral/ Social Science
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Blog 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers
1. What causes fashion trends and how can they best be exploited?
2. "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time."
3. My possible answers are the following:
2. "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time."
3. My possible answers are the following:
- Celebrities cause fashion trends. From the perspective of a celebrity, they need to keep an eye on trends, fashion shows, and major fashion labels because they're the people that everyone looks up to. They can afford the expensive clothing put out there by major designers.
- Fashion bloggers have say in trends. From the perspective of a fashion blogger, they need to find the time to go out and about and critique the work/lines of others. They also need to people-watch, attend fashion shows, establish a “voice” for their blog and not just say nice things, but actually be honest and state their opinions of things. They also need to be aware that they may get hate for what they say and not everyone will agree with them.
- Most importantly, fashion designers start trends. They're literally the masterminds behind how they get started and they're the ones who create the final product at the end of the day and decide how they can best get their line noticed. They need to think ahead, too. For example, a designer will need to start getting a head start on the fall line a few seasons in advance. When I went to do my mentorship hours a few weeks ago, the designer was already considering what should be considered for the line in summer of 2013.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Plan Approval
1) I currently have one possible option for my independent component. I'm hoping that I could get permission from my mentor to help assist and be a part of a fashion show. By that, I mean that I hope to go to all the meetings and fittings and the set up. It takes plenty of hours to put together a fashion show because there is so much planning that goes behind it. Hopefully I will get to experience everything first hand because it's always been a dream of mine to attend one, as well. I'd considered planning and putting together my own fashion show at iPoly, having students from the senior class participate, but opted against it. I'm sure because of all the work, it'd be a lot to juggle with school work and my other priorities.
2) For a fashion show, you need the following; a theme, location, models, a crew, publicity, and lots of rehearsal. That would mean several months of planning and that's a lot of hours. Not only am I certain that I'd get 30 hours, I'm sure I'd get more than that especially because my mentor is always more than willing to help. I'd prove that I attended and helped with the process with word from my mentor, pictures, and more than likely, a brochure of some sort.
3) I'm almost positive that my working EQ has to do with how trends are started/created. Since that is the case, fashion shows are where the media and the public get their inspiration and find out what's currently trending. Fashion shows are a showcase for designers to show off their best clothing. So it goes hand in hand with my working EQ perfectly.
2) For a fashion show, you need the following; a theme, location, models, a crew, publicity, and lots of rehearsal. That would mean several months of planning and that's a lot of hours. Not only am I certain that I'd get 30 hours, I'm sure I'd get more than that especially because my mentor is always more than willing to help. I'd prove that I attended and helped with the process with word from my mentor, pictures, and more than likely, a brochure of some sort.
3) I'm almost positive that my working EQ has to do with how trends are started/created. Since that is the case, fashion shows are where the media and the public get their inspiration and find out what's currently trending. Fashion shows are a showcase for designers to show off their best clothing. So it goes hand in hand with my working EQ perfectly.
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