PARIS SUMMER FASHION MASTERCLASS | JULY 1-26, 2019

The Arts of Fashion Foundation launches the 2019 innovative Paris 4-week intensive Fashion MasterClass program, taught in English. The chosen theme of inspiration is DESERT. As previously, this new session will be hosted at the Paris Decorative Arts Museum: 111 rue de Rivoli Paris 75001 - Metro Palais Royal, Louvre or Pyramides. Every session, a new team of creative designers are invited to work during 4-week intensively with a group of maximum 15 selected international fashion students and recent graduates, on an innovative, defined and educational project to be exhibited at the end of the session.

Previous Paris MasterClass instructors included leading creative designers such as Anthony Vaccarello (2010), Aurore Thibout (2011), Christine Phung and Lucile Puton (2012), Zoe Vermeire (2013), Raphaelle H’Limi and Kenta Matsushige (2014), Long-Nam To (2015), Yiyu Chen & Haesung Bong (2015), Stephanie Coudert (2016-2017) and Gustavo Lins (2018).

The new creative duo of Guest Designers to direct this upcoming session of July 2019 are:

ALICIA DECLERCK
Belgium-born fashion and textile designer Alicia Declerck, is today the co-founder of ALTER ERA (2015) - a womenswear rising brand based in Antwerp, with production facilities in Czech Republic and Italy.

But Alicia Declerck is not a stranger to the Arts of Fashion Foundation: she was granted the 2011 Arts of Fashion Manish Arora Award in San Francisco while she was still a fashion student in Italy at Polimoda where she graduated. She eventually travelled to India a year after or so and spent 8 months working in the studio of Manish Arora. However her international fashion journey started just before in the United States with a first internship in New York at the studio of Diane Von Furstenberg followed by another one at the Rodarte studio in Los Angeles.

NADIA ALBERTINI
Mexican-born embroidery designer Nadia Albertini, has worked for with leading fashion names in Paris, Antwerp and New York.
After graduated from the Applied Art School in Paris – Duperre (2008) in Fashion and Textiles design, she started her career as a junior embroidery designer at Chloé, spent 2 years at Maison Lemarie before moving to New York and to work at Jason Wu and Tory Burch, while consulting for other majors brands in Europe included Dries van Noten.
Nadia Albertini currently works independently on fashion and interior design embroidery commissions and is publishing a book about her research on the Parisian embroidery house Rébé in the spring of 2020.


DESERT is the theme for the Summer Fashion Masterclass 2019
Credit Photo | Clifford COFFIN - Models Sitting on Sand Dunes in California | Vogue, June 1949

THE ARTS OF FASHION FOUNDATION'S 4-WEEK MASTERCLASS - SERIES IS MEANT TO:

- Increase, develop and promote creativity by exposing talented students to different cultural environments, design approaches and new techniques, including the diverse, unique and rich culture of craftmanship from the Parisian Haute Couture.
- Learn and experience first hand from first class renowned highly creative minded and independant fashion designers.
- Give students support and direction to develop their own design DNA while receiving feedback on their portfolios and professional projects including best source of education, senior thesis and international competitions advice.
- Initiate and encourage collaboration and exchange of ideas between professionals, designers and students.
- Allow students to mingle and network with other fashion driven students from all over the world and in Paris.

The MasterClass course studio program is taught in English by a team of fashion and textile designers for a class of 15 students.
(160 hours, over a period of 4 weeks, equivalent to 9 credit hour and consisting of 5-day a week, 9AM-6PM with 1 hour lunch break)

The Arts of Fashion MasterClass program is an excellent opportunity and unique frame to enhance students creativity and sharpen interest in fashion design in gaining a deeper understanding of what and how to research in Fashion, and develop both contemporary fashion draping and craft techniques of embellishment in design.

THE CONTENT OF THE PARIS SUMMER MASTERCLASS : JULY 1-26, 2019

The Arts of Fashion Foundation is offering to fashion students and recent graduates another opportunity to work with rising creative designers and explore the exclusive reservoir of Haute Couture through unique collaborations including Maison Lemarie, Lesage and Atelier Lognon, part of Les Metiers d'Art CHANEL.

The main idea is not only to sharpen participants’ skills, increase their vision and develop their creative potential, but also pushing their design and inventiveness boundaries to the appropriation of the know-how or savoir-faire.
Following the inspiration of the current Paris’ fashion exhibitions and exploring design strategies such as use of unconventional materials, the ideas of transgression and subversion including surrealism and pastiche, 15 selected participants by session will create and design capsule collection around a pre-defined atmosphere, following assignments and specific given theme for this upcoming Summer Fashion MasterClass 2019.

- LAB is a studio course dedicated to design and execute finished garments from two original silhouettes with prominent designers as critics. Students develop and define their own concept through the themes given and following their design research.
- COLLAB is a studio course dedicated to explore and experiment textile design techniques from Haute Couture & Savoir Faire including Embroidery and Pleating. Students develop and apply their own textile research for their design project.
- CULTMODE offers a comprehensive survey of the Paris fashion design fields. Through fashion professionals and guests, field trips and exhibitions as well as our collaboration with the Decorative Arts Museum and unique access to their collections and library, students learn the scope, history and dimensions of the Parisian fashion industry and its related fields and current activities.

The Salon des Boiseries from the Decorative Arts Museum hosts the ephemeral exhibition of the work in progress produced by participants the last Thursday of the session (5-9PM) therefore on July 25, 2019.
A photoshoot is also organised the last day of session for portfolio purposes on July 26, 2019.

A certificate of participation is delivered to students according to full attendance of the fashion masterclass and work. The Arts of Fashion Foundation certificate of achievement is given only to students who completed all the requirement and which work is exhibited.

The goal of the Arts of Fashion Foundation abroad MasterClass Program series is to further develop and promote creativity in fashion, exchange of ideas, give fashion students access to the best possible sources of fashion education - including the diverse, unique and rich culture of craftmanship from the Parisian Haute Couture tradition - and to fund development of other creative and educational projects.

PARIS - TUITION FEES

The 2019 Paris 4-week intensive Fashion MasterClass program Series offers to Fashion students and recent graduates an intensive Fashion design studio course program of 160 hours, over a period of 4 weeks equivalent to 9 credit hour and consisting of 5-day a week, 9 AM to 6 PM, (with one hour lunch break). Tuition fees are $5950.

All applicants have:
- to complete the individual registration form online
- to email their CV/resume in attachment (contact-us@arts-of-fashion.org), in shortly explaining why they think this program can help them (motivation).
- a recommendation letter from professor or from a previous student from the Arts of Fashion programs is always welcome but not requested.
- a Skype or FaceTime einterview may be scheduled.
Upon receipt of your registration form and reception of your CV/resume and motivation letter, the Arts of Fashion will review your application and send you the final decision about your enrollment.

The MasterClass is limited to 15 students and only the full payment tuition fee will secure your spot. After the 15th 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.

DEADLINES & CANCELLATION POLICY

Full payment of tuition fees is requested to secure your spot after acceptation in the program. Payment is in US $ by check enclosed to Arts of Fashion Foundation or bank wire transfer. You can also pay by credit card via Paypal, 3% of processing fees will be added to the amount.
All cancellation must be made in writing. Before May 1st 2019 10% will be deducted for processing fees. After May 1st, 2019 no tuition fee will be refunded
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INSURANCE REQUIREMENT

Please note that the registration and tuition fees do not include international insurance and medical coverage. Therefore it is the responsibility to each participant to contract a personal international insurance before leaving for the winter and summer programs 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, travel time and stay in Europe 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.

SUPPLIES

Students are expected to provide some supplies. Participants will receive a list of the needed basic materials before the session begins. All fabric, interface, fusing, thread, embroidery and pleating supplies and anything else will be bought in Paris with the teaching designers approval. Estimated cost around $600, depending to student project.

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 just before the visit or before the end of the visit) and proof of sufficient funds and a return airline ticket are often requested by the authorities.

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. You need to begin the process at least 3 months before your departure time.

DECORATIVE ARTS - PARIS

The Decorative Arts 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. The Decorative Arts manages four national museums: the Decorative Arts Museum, the Fashion and Textiles Museum, the Advertisement Museum and the Nissim de Camondo Museum. Safeguarding the collections, promoting culture, providing art education and professional training, and supporting design is the mission of the Decorative Arts. www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

MAISON LESAGE - PARIS

The story began in 1858, when Charles Frederick Worth opened his haute couture fashion house in Paris, and started making use of the prodigious talent of the embroiderer Albert Michonet, whose studio was purchased by Albert and Marie-Louise Lesage in 1924. Following the death of his father in 1949, François Lesage took over the management of the company at the young age of 20. For 50 years, he combined the skills of a traditional craft with meeting the pioneering requirements of the new generation of fashion designers including Karl Lagerfeld, but also Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and John Galliano. Francois Lesage died on December 1, 2011, at the age of 82. He had already sold the House to Chanel in a bid to ensure the continued survival and saving the precious parisian know-how of the haute couture. www.lesage-paris.fr

MAISON LEMARIE - PARIS

The house of Lemarié, bought by Chanel in 1997, holds onto its roots. Established in 1880 by André Lemarié’s grandmother , the “creation of feathers for finery” developed with success and the company became, over the years, the primary feather worker in France. Founded in a competitive environment (in 1900 there were more than three hundred feather workers in Paris), it developed to become a benchmark in its field, if not the only feather workers in France. Its longevity is due to the exceptional knowledge of those who work there: the delicate work with feathers which are dyed, refined, curled and pounded and of which there is a remarkable collection, hidden in boxes as old as the company itself. The flower work which takes place, creates the famous camellias of which twenty thousand are delivered to Chanel every year, in tweed, fur, satin and, even occasionally, in plastic or cardboard. Each of these demanding hours of work depending on the complicated nature of the design. Lemarié also demonstrates its talents in tailoring; delivering smocking, inserts and ruffles to the top fashion names: naturally Chanel, followed by faithful customers which include Dior, Balenciaga, Valentino and Givenchy. www.lemarie-paris.fr

ATELIER LOGNON - PARIS

The pleated in Haute Couture has remained an exceptional and unique Art work and since four generations for Gerard Lognon. This mysterious embellishment technic - which particular effect of pattern is obtained by pleating - was kept secret for a long time. From Madeleine Vionnet to Issey Miyake, every designer has at one time or another explored its own infinity of pleating. Most of the 3000 molds for pleats were designed and made by Gerard Lognon’s grand father: Georges. This Parisian workshop has become another unique Haute Couture craftmanship spot where still meets greatest designers from Dior and Hermes to name only a few luxury brands. As Maison Lesage - Paris, the Atelier Lognon has been bought by Chanel in July 2013 and is today part of Maison Lemarie.

The Arts of Fashion Foundation is a San Francisco-based 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 programs meant to facilitate critical thinking and advance the field of fashion among artists, designers, scholars and students.The primary focus of the foundation is the continuous support of creativity and design process in fashion and the arts linked to it.