FASHION SUMMER 2011| MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS - PARIS | JUNE 27 - JULY 22

IN FASHION MODE | MASTERCLASS BROCHURE - PARIS | JUNE 27 - JULY 22, 2011

THE ARTS OF FASHION SUMMER @ MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS - PARIS IN FASHION MODE
The Arts of Fashion Foundation - Paris innovative four-week intensive summer MasterClass fashion program in English - IN FASHION MODE. It will take place at the Paris Decorative Arts Museum in the famous Le Louvre Palais - 107 rue de Rivoli Paris 75001 - www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr - Metro Palais Royal / Musee du Louvre.

The Arts of Fashion Summer 2011 @ Musee des Arts Decoratifs - Paris in Fashion Mode - is open to Fashion & Design students as well as young Fashion professionals (on review of their application).

This is an excellent opportunity to develop students’ creativity in fashion design and gain a deeper understanding of contemporary fashion draping, construction and craft techniques of embellishment. Moreover, students will be able to sharpen their skills in embroidery, illustration, textile manipulations and incorporate them into cutting-edge styles. Menswear always played a big part in the womenswear development, same as womenswear affected the development of menswear. This year summer program allows for such interaction, and it can only be beneficial to either womenswear or menswear student.

THE ARTS OF FASHION SUMMER PROGRAM IS MEANT TO:
- Increase and develop creativity by exposing students to new techniques and different design approaches.
- Learn and experience first hand from first class renowned designers.
- Give students feedback on their portfolios and professional projects.
- Initiate and encourage collaboration between professional designers and students.
- Allow students to mingle and network with other fashion driven students from all over the world.
- Each Summer program is taught in English with the fashion & textile faculty / designers for 20 students.

The Exhibition will be held displaying the students' works on Thurs. July 21 - 5PM / 103 rue de Rivoli / Hall Entrance of the Museum Gallery and then in San Francisco at the end of October.

UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS REPRESENTED BY REGISTERED STUDENTS --- updated May 22, 2011

THE MUSEUMS OF THE ARTS DECORATIFS - PARIS
Les Arts Décoratifs manage four national museums : the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, the Musée de la Publicité (at 107 rue de Rivoli, the Rohan and Marsan wings of the Louvre) and the Musée Nissim de Camondo (at 63 rue de Monceau, the Hôtel de Camondo).

Les Arts Décoratifs is a private organization governed by the law of 1901 on not-for-profit associations and recognized as being in the public interest. It originated in 1882, in the wake of the Universal Exhibitions, when a group of collectors banded together with the idea of promoting the applied arts and developing links between industry and culture, design and production.
For many years it was known as the  Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD), but in December 2004 it changed its name to Les Arts Decoratifs while staying true to its original aims of safeguarding the collections, promoting culture, providing art education and professional training, and supporting design. www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

The goal of the Arts of Fashion Foundation is to develop and promote creativity in Fashion and give access to fashion students and young professionals to the best possible source of creative fashion education, as well as allowing the Arts of Fashion to fund and develop other creative and educational projects to benefit fashion students and the Academia.

The Arts of Fashion Foundation is a 501(c) (3), public, non-profit organization, linking both academics and professionals alike and is dedicated in fostering international cultural exchange through the creation of a variety of educational events meant to facilitate critical thinking among artists, designers, scholars and students. The primary focus of the foundation is the continuous support of creativity and design in fashion and the arts linked to it