MANIFESTO: IDC FASHION
IDC Fashion is a concentration in Parsons’ Integrated Design Curriculum that utilizes a holistic approach to educating students within the context of garments, identity, media and fashion. IDC is more of an underlying philosophy than a program. We ground ourselves in the understanding that a heightened consciousness towards what we wear, what we create and what we consume will make us wear more ambitiously, consume more conscientiously and create more ecstatically. IDC is constantly evolving and refining itself, perpetually challenging students to explore and understand their place in the world—and as a result, expand their own potential and break habitual patterns.
The IDC Fashion track offers a series of core classes and electives that provide a context in which knowledge is built up with a sense of purpose. The IDC Fashion core classes engender in its students the ability to engage with their electives in various disciplines in an integrated and productive way. This allows for more meaningful exploration and more useful genuine learning.
IDC fashion students make clothes, publications, images, drawings, videos, whatever fits their sensibility—constantly and continuously. We create, we share, we perform, but most importantly we have fun. Our mode of learning is experiential. At IDC we imagine new modes of production and exchange, realize them, and enact them in creative ways.
The traditional fashion design training marks arbitrary points, independent of beauty and inspiration, that designate a work as ‘finished.’ We at IDC view no such points. Works are only revised, reworked, added to, edited and expanded—never finished. We place human existence at the center of our curriculum: understanding what it means to be human, and knowing that what you do carries wide reverberations, is as important a skill as draping. What we wish to do is add a touch more humanity to every part of the process of creation, production and consumption. The result is that the entire process is demystified, which creates pieces, events and interactions that have an expansive energy to them.
We want to pull as much as we can out of as many places we can. It is about sharing and creating in abundance, with love and confidence. By constantly and curiously exploring our relationship to what we make, where we are and whom we interact with, we are opening up the entire process of creation and exchange. Once there is space to grow, there is no limit to what we create and share.
When you seek to get the most out of your connections and bring a heightened consciousness to them, anything and everything can be considered an experiment—anything and everything is an opportunity to learn. As a result, IDC’s Fashion track is flexible and self-directed. It leaves room for the x quantities—all the variables and unknowns in life. An IDC student has the resiliency to take whatever life deals them because they expect the unexpected. They can integrate themselves, and their skills, into any environment—no matter how unlikely or challenging.
Quotes taken from Sister Corita's Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules
The IDC Fashion track offers a series of core classes and electives that provide a context in which knowledge is built up with a sense of purpose. The IDC Fashion core classes engender in its students the ability to engage with their electives in various disciplines in an integrated and productive way. This allows for more meaningful exploration and more useful genuine learning.
“The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something.
It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.”
It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.”
IDC fashion students make clothes, publications, images, drawings, videos, whatever fits their sensibility—constantly and continuously. We create, we share, we perform, but most importantly we have fun. Our mode of learning is experiential. At IDC we imagine new modes of production and exchange, realize them, and enact them in creative ways.
“Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail.
There is only make.”
There is only make.”
The traditional fashion design training marks arbitrary points, independent of beauty and inspiration, that designate a work as ‘finished.’ We at IDC view no such points. Works are only revised, reworked, added to, edited and expanded—never finished. We place human existence at the center of our curriculum: understanding what it means to be human, and knowing that what you do carries wide reverberations, is as important a skill as draping. What we wish to do is add a touch more humanity to every part of the process of creation, production and consumption. The result is that the entire process is demystified, which creates pieces, events and interactions that have an expansive energy to them.
“Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.”
We want to pull as much as we can out of as many places we can. It is about sharing and creating in abundance, with love and confidence. By constantly and curiously exploring our relationship to what we make, where we are and whom we interact with, we are opening up the entire process of creation and exchange. Once there is space to grow, there is no limit to what we create and share.
“Consider everything an experiment.”
When you seek to get the most out of your connections and bring a heightened consciousness to them, anything and everything can be considered an experiment—anything and everything is an opportunity to learn. As a result, IDC’s Fashion track is flexible and self-directed. It leaves room for the x quantities—all the variables and unknowns in life. An IDC student has the resiliency to take whatever life deals them because they expect the unexpected. They can integrate themselves, and their skills, into any environment—no matter how unlikely or challenging.
Quotes taken from Sister Corita's Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules
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