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Great interview with my former student, Nikita!! Check it out here. And keep pushing for your dreams! http://youtu.be/hcYMiY7uUFo

Behind The Grind With Nikita Carroll - S2E8 In this interview your host Erica Austin sits down with fashion designer Nikita Carroll. Nikita talks about how she got started in the industry and where she...

Students, here's an easier formula for your figuring overhead costs:

1. Determine replacement cost for all personal tools (irons, sewing machine, scissors, etc) used.
2. Take total cost and divide by number of projects done a year.
3. Take this amount and add to projects as tool usage cost.
Example: $500 to replace supplies, 100 projects a year. Total to add to each project is $5.

Same can be used to determine utilities cost. Take difference between extra usage for projects (water, electricity) to get step 1 cost. Also can be used to determine business development. Eg. Marketing costs for exposure projects (work done for free for exposure.)

The only wiggle room you have in price reduction (for price competition) to the client is labor cost. Any other areas, you have or will have spent money later in the year and results in loss funds.

At cost is really: material/supply costs, overhead, and business development.

Keeping going for your goals!

Introducing the 2014 Garment Construction Student Collection: Winter Wonderland.

Save the Date: I anticipate offering the Art 148 Garment Construction class again in Spring 2016 at John Tyler Community College. The next fashion show will be May 2016.

The ART 148 Garment Construction students each worked with their own model to create a garment from a store-bought (commercial) pattern that matched their interpretation of the theme: Winter Wonderland. This is a basic sewing class. A majority of these students did not know how to sew when I met them on the first day of class. The progress they made in 16 weeks is remarkable!
Adjunct Instructor: Shannon McCallister
(images posted with permission of photographer, designers, and models.)

The ART 148 Garment Construction students each worked with their own model to create a garment from a store-bought (commercial) pattern that matched their interpretation of the theme: Winter Wonderland. This is a basic sewing class. A majority of these students did not know how to sew when I met them on the first day of class. The progress they made in 16 weeks is remarkable!
Adjunct Instructor: Shannon McCallister
(images posted with permission of photographer, designers, and models.)

The finale of the 2014 John Tyler Community College Assignment Runway Fashion Show: Winter Wonderland. Now in its 4th official year. This fashion show serves as the students' final exam. This year I collaborated with the Music Voice, Graphic Design and Studio
Photography (took professional photos before the show in their studio) classes to teach the students peer networking. http://youtu.be/tcf8pcpWYCc

2014 Assignment Runway Fashion Show: Winter Wonderland Final exam of the John Tyler Community College, ART 148 Garment Construction for Fashion Design class.

2013 Assignment Runway Fashion Show. Filmed by Otway Chalkley.

RVA Fashion Week RVA Fashion Week has come and gone and this photo isn't from it but the best picture I took last week that I got with a new camera to help film "Assignment Runway Fashion Show" for Shannon McCallis...

Students--be sure to tag yourself on your work.

The students were to create a target market character and fill out a customer profile. Then they were instructed to create an abstract representation of their client. The client contracted them to create 5 looks for a movie premiere. The students determined the type of movie, the client's role in the movie, and the caliber of the premiere event. They had to use a swatch of fabric povided to them in one of their designs. They were then to select one garment piece from their 5 designs and redesign it into 4 price points: Couture/Designer, Bridge/Better, Moderate, Budget and assign these pieces a style number and price. They displayed their work on a foldout display board.

Photography by Caleb Wynn.
MUA: Beauty Empire School Students: Kierra Tillar, Kierra Brown, Gloria Gaines, Ashlee Boyd & Angelica Davis
MUA: Angela Asher Roth
The students were to make one garment piece which they styled with other garment pieces to make a cohesive look. Can you guess which garment piece was made?

2012 Garment Construction for Fashion Design
Photographer: Alan Kayanan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amkphotography/7371199496/in/photostream/
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