IN FASHION MODE | MASTERCLASS PROGRAM - PARIS | JUNE 25 - JULY 20, 2012

THE ARTS OF FASHION SUMMER 2012 @ MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS
- The Arts of Fashion Summer 2012 @ Musee des Arts Decoratifs is open to Fashion & Design students as well as young Fashion professionals (on review of their application) with a fixed and limited number of spots: 20.
- The Arts of Fashion Summer 2012 @ Musee des Arts Decoratifs will start on Monday June 25 and will end July 20, 2012 and the Tuition fees are $ 4620.

SUMMER MASTERCLASS REGISTRATION

THE ARTS OF FASHION SUMMER MASTERCLASS PROGRAM IS MEANT TO:
- Increase and develop creativity by exposing students to new techniques, craft and different design approaches.
- Learn and experience first hand from first class renowned creative 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 2 distinct fashion projects, with 2 teams of designers/ fashion & textile faculty/designers for 20 students.

UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS REPRESENTED BY REGISTERED STUDENTS --- updated Jan. 18, 2012

THE ARTS OF FASHION SUMMER @ MUSEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS - IN FASHION MODE
The Arts of Fashion Foundation launches a forth - 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.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop students creativity in fashion design and gain a deeper understanding of contemporary fashion draping and craft techniques of embellishment. Moreover, students will be able to sharpen their skills in embroidery, applied patterns, inserts, and incorporate them into cutting-edge styles.
From the Paris Decorative Arts Museum's lectures and visits of exhibitions students will draw their inspiration and incorporate innovative techniques in their project.  Students will design and bring together 2 different silhouettes to be exhibited the last thursday of the program at the exhibition hall in the Museum (on Thursday July 19, 2011). In addition, students are strongly encourage to participate in the cultural program offered during the weekends to visit spots in Paris and Antwerp. Students will have the opportunity to do sketching during these visits.

PARIS - TUITION & ACCOMMODATION  
The Arts of Fashion Summer 2012 @ Musee des Arts Decoratifs - Paris in Fashion Mode (107, rue de Rivoli Paris 75001) offers to Fashion students intensive and qualitative Design and Fashion related courses, over a period of 4 weeks, consisting of five-day a week, 9 AM to 5 PM, (with one hour lunch break) from June 25 - July 20, 2012. Tuition fees are $ 4620. 
In collaboration with the Fondation des Etats-Unis, we can propose single rooms for $ 1300 for the entire length of the summer program. Check in Sat. June 23 & Check out Sat. Jul 21, 2012. The dormitory is located in the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris - 15, Boulevard Jourdan Paris 75014 www.feusa.org - Metro Cite Universitaire.

DEADLINES & CANCELLATION POLICY
Full payment of tuition fees is requested at the time of the registration. The payment will be made in US $ by check enclosed to Arts of Fashion Foundation or bank wire transfer or online by credit card through Paypal. All cancellation must be made in writing before the dates below. Prior to January 15, 2012, refund of tuition fees less a 10 percent penalty, prior to April 15, 2012, refund of tuition fees less a 30 percent penalty | After April 15, 2012, no tuition fees refund.

Please note that the registration and tuition fees do not include international insurance and medical coverage. It is the responsibility to each participant to contract a personal international insurance before leaving for the summer program in Europe. We advice participants to take information first from their own insurance company in order to have additional medical and liability coverage during their travel and stay.
The tuition fees do not include transportations, accommodation, meals, cultural program, visits, personal expenses, materials and medical insurance. The Arts of Fashion Foundation, and their members, volunteers, designers, guests and instructors, and space owner, will not be held responsible for liability due to accident, injury, damage, loss of material and belongings or any other incident causing loss or harm to a program participant during the 4-week session and travel time, even if the incident is occurring by the involved parties.
It is the responsibility of the student to be insured and to insure or not what they produce, carry or / and submit. In case of a cancellation of the Summer program for any reason or circumstances tuition fees will be refunded.

Spots are limited and are on first come, first served. All applicants have to complete online or by mail the individual registration form, as well as the full payment of tuition fees to the Arts of Fashion Foundation as soon as possible as class size is limited to 20 students.
Upon receipt of your registration form and payment, Arts of Fashion will review your application and will send you additional information and your enrollment confirmation. After the 20th student registered, all next students will be on a waiting list and be contacted if some spots would be available. Students on the waiting list will be contacted in order of receipt of their registration form.

SUPPLIES
Students are expected to provide some supplies. Registrants will receive a list of the needed materials before the summer session begins. Expenses are estimated to cost $ 400.

TRANSPORTATION & VISA
Program participants must take their own arrangements to and from Paris.
General information about airports of Paris on www.parisairport.fr and public transportation on www.ratp.fr
Please note that all visitors will need to present a valid passport (that does not expire before the end of the visit), proof of sufficient funds and a return airline ticket.
For US citizen, a visa is not needed. After going through the French customs, you will be free to travel in the Schengen space during the period of your stay less than 3-month.
For non-US citizen, if your country does not have a special agreement with France/Europe, you will have to obtain a visa.
For more information about the process that you need to begin 2 months before your departure time, please visit the website of the US Bureau of Consular Affairs: www.travel.state.gov

CONTACT
Arts of Fashion Summer Program @Musee des Arts Decoratifs - Paris in Fashion Mode - contact-us@arts-of-fashion.org

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.