Tuesday, April 12, 2011
PUFD 3230 Fashion Materiality: Clothing Repair
This class will focus on different traditions. practices and techniques of repair of clothes and textiles. Students will be introduced to historical and cultural traditions and contexts in which repair and repurpose of clothes and textiles has been practiced for a variety of reasons and purposes, such as scarcity, conservation, tradition and aesthetics. Students will not only study these traditions and practices but integrate them in their work and apply them to their dress.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
MA Fashion Studies: Fashion Practices
What are the premises and paradigms underlying current spectacular fashion practices and how are they constructed? This class will look into notions of capitalism, narcissism, mass production, division of labor, neoliberalism, and consumerism. The course will explore the role of the media and how we currently define our selves and success in relation to the spectacular. We will look at pivotal moments in western fashion history that helped shape and define todays paradigms. Through an exploration of a variety of deeply embedded, more mundane or sacred, social, cultural, historical and traditional practices in relation to dress, we will slowly move away from practices that are exclusively driven by monetary incentives, identifying the premises and values that underlie more integrated relations to dress, identity and community. We will discuss and explore notions such as we, the gift, reciprocity, trust, success, joy and abundance. How can these notions shape more inclusive, integrated, sustainable fashion practices? This class will employ different methodologies including dialogue, experiential learning, ethnographic research, literature review using philosophical theory and texts. The class will result in a written proposal for or/and an exploration of an alternative fashion practice supported with substantial research.
Friday, December 3, 2010
FASHION RE/ACTION FESTIVAL - SUMMER 2010
Date: August 14th - September 25th, 2010
Location: Jem Fabric Warehouse, 355 Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets in Downtown Manhattan NYC
Festival directors: Michael di Pietro and Shirley Rempe
Culture Push and Jem Fabric Warehouse present Fashion Re/Action, a six-week series of studio workshops, collaborative events, and artist's talks exploring new efforts and strategies towards a more sustainable fashion system. Focusing on the power of the individual as a means of change in fashion, Fashion Re/Action aims to give beginners and professionals alike a platform from which to re/design and re/imagine what can be done with discarded materials. Through weekly Saturday workshops focusing on design strategies and creative construction techniques, we invite people to acquire the skills to become an active player in the fashion process and to reassess their ability as both a user and maker. All events are free and open to the public.
The series kicks off on August 14, 2010 with an intensive Remake Relay modeled after Culture Push's "Doing" events. Visitors are invited to use the donated materials provided to repurpose discarded textiles with the help of our experts and a wide range of equipment stations. Each visitor will be guided through the design process and various stations by our relay docents. The festival culminates on September 25th with a second Remake Relay, a fashion performance and competition for the most upcycled garment and creative use of recycled materials.
The six-week Fashion Re/Action series is Culture Push's first workshop festival, growing out of several workshop styles the organization has implemented over the last two years.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE PICTURES (photographed and edited by Arturo Vidich)
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A VIDEO REGISTRATION (by Culture Push)
Location: Jem Fabric Warehouse, 355 Broadway between Franklin and Leonard Streets in Downtown Manhattan NYC
Festival directors: Michael di Pietro and Shirley Rempe
Culture Push and Jem Fabric Warehouse present Fashion Re/Action, a six-week series of studio workshops, collaborative events, and artist's talks exploring new efforts and strategies towards a more sustainable fashion system. Focusing on the power of the individual as a means of change in fashion, Fashion Re/Action aims to give beginners and professionals alike a platform from which to re/design and re/imagine what can be done with discarded materials. Through weekly Saturday workshops focusing on design strategies and creative construction techniques, we invite people to acquire the skills to become an active player in the fashion process and to reassess their ability as both a user and maker. All events are free and open to the public.
The series kicks off on August 14, 2010 with an intensive Remake Relay modeled after Culture Push's "Doing" events. Visitors are invited to use the donated materials provided to repurpose discarded textiles with the help of our experts and a wide range of equipment stations. Each visitor will be guided through the design process and various stations by our relay docents. The festival culminates on September 25th with a second Remake Relay, a fashion performance and competition for the most upcycled garment and creative use of recycled materials.
The six-week Fashion Re/Action series is Culture Push's first workshop festival, growing out of several workshop styles the organization has implemented over the last two years.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE PICTURES (photographed and edited by Arturo Vidich)
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A VIDEO REGISTRATION (by Culture Push)
Pomaire seminar
CREA for Pomaire seminar, Pascale Gatzen
Pascale will talk about the process of collaboration with the Mayan women artisan group, Ajkem’a Loy’a in San Lucas Toliman in Guatemala. She will give examples and illustrate insights and challenges from two different projects. In 2009/2010, Pascale developed in collaboration with the women a woven tracksuit for W139, one of the main art spaces in Amsterdam. In the summer of 2009, she traveled with 5 students from the New School in New York to work with the women to help them further their design skills. Together they created a series of bags that will soon be available for sale in the US.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Pascale will talk about the process of collaboration with the Mayan women artisan group, Ajkem’a Loy’a in San Lucas Toliman in Guatemala. She will give examples and illustrate insights and challenges from two different projects. In 2009/2010, Pascale developed in collaboration with the women a woven tracksuit for W139, one of the main art spaces in Amsterdam. In the summer of 2009, she traveled with 5 students from the New School in New York to work with the women to help them further their design skills. Together they created a series of bags that will soon be available for sale in the US.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
IDC Colloq: Fashion Media
The course will offer a combination of seminar and studio. In class students will explore the language and history of magazines, fashion- and art publications in particular, photography, media in general, communication, marketing and branding. The class will provide context and offer lectures, guest lecturers and small hands on projects in which students through making explore the issues that will come up in class. The aim of this class is for students to understand the economic, cultural and social implications of their own work, of professional fashion media practices, and develop radical innovative new strategies that will impact and change the current landscape of fashion and media.
IDC Colloq: Fashion Illustration
Through the study of historical and present techniques and practices of fashion design representations, students will discover their own drawing style of fashion illustration. In this course, students will render silhouettes, studying fabric weight and texture, by experimenting with mediums such as: gouache, water color, Japanese ink, stamping, silkscreen, collage, montage and etching. Students will be encouraged to discover new techniques while learning about avant-garde, experimental, illustration.
IDp Collab: Urban Dyeing
Urban Dyeing introduces students to an ongoing project that emerged from a desire that a group of IDC students expressed. It engages multiple partners to grow plants in the New School neighborhood with a sense of purpose. The class aims to educate about plants, gardening, garden design, public space and participatory models of engagement. In this student driven initiative students are encouraged to collaborate and feed of each other's ideas and initiatives to develop, multiply, diversify or bifurcate from the ongoing project. The class has a very practical and hands on approach; we will be planting plants, harvesting plants, composting, assembling containers for plants. We will also be designing with water, heat and cool as well as dyeing, sewing, selling, sharing and trading.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
pictures Karen Codd
September 9th from 7-9pm Livingston Street between Hoyt & Smith, Brooklyn in Nightwood Design Pop-Up Space, by invitation of Nadia Yaron and Myriah Scruggs a Fashion Event hosted by Pascale Gatzen “a crowd of amazing people on a magical evening in September in beautiful dress by inspiring artist and clothing designers, who share a vision dedicated to love, life and beauty.”
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