Fashion+Projects

Develop your own Fashion Workshops. Start with girls around 11 years-old and include technology to interest them and parent dollars. (Start a small-business) Example target audience: [] Example lesson plan: [] Example of leading girls in a fashion project: (Start four minutes into the video at least.) []

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//Fashioning Circuits// was launched in September 2011 as part of a series of independent studies in the graduate program in Emerging Media and Communication (EMAC) at the University of Texas, Dallas. The goal of the project is twofold: to explore the ways in which fashion and emerging media intersect and to work with community partners to introduce beginners to making and coding through wearable media. []

Example of a Fashion Work Shop []

Diana Eng/ Fashion Designer [] [] Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by the mechanical engineering of biomimetics. At 22, her inflatable dress (cocreated with Emily Albinski) made the cover of ID Magazine. In 2005, she was a designer on season 2 of the Emmy nominated hit TV show, Project Runway. She won Yahoo Hack Day in 2006 along with her two-team mates for designing and creating a blogging purse in less than 24 hours. She has worked as an assistant designer in research & development at Victoria's Secret. She is the author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Her work has been featured in exhibits both in the U.S. and internationally around the globe, and has graced the pages of such publications as Women's Wear Daily, Wired, and Craft Magazine. Diana is Make's ham radio correspondent. Diana currently designs in the NYC fashion industry and is a founding member of Brooklyn based hacker group NYC Resistor.

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This skirt project may also interest young girls. [] []

These might be an easy projects with appeal to 5th or 6th grade girls. [] [] The bullet shapes would need to be changed in this project to hello kitty shapes or some thing. []

Teaching Fashion through sewing: []