Spend one whole day
learning from a master!
The Center for
Professional Series is proud to present our
extended Master Class Series for Fall '09
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$225
SXM 600 Dramatic Script Writing Studio: Theatre,
Film, TV and New Media
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Are you a
budding playwright, or screenwriter, or do you
have a story burning within your heart that you
yearn to tell? In all cases our new script
writing studio is for you. Work in a creative
environment and learn the dramatic writing
concepts special to screenwriting, playwriting
and other performance media. Start a project
from scratch or rekindle that story you set
aside and never finished. As a group,
participants share projects and learn how to
give and receive feedback on work in progress.
Program emphasizes passionate storytelling,
developing characters, uncovering visual actions
and goals. Studio concludes with participants
reading scenes from their script.
Workshop
leader:
Steven Fechter, playwright and screenwriter (The
Woodsman) adjunct professor, English and Speech,
FIT.
4 sessions:
October 14, 21, 28, November 4
26538 55A
W 6:30 pm-9:30 pm TBA
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SXN 118 Harness Your Dreams and
Beat Today's Career
$110
Challenges
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If the economy has wrecked havoc on your career,
if what you thought you'd love to do turned into
just collecting a paycheck, or if you still
can't figure out what you want to be, taking
this specially crafted FIT Master class can help
make your dreams happen. Two leading NYC career
coaches have teamed up to aid you in determining
work that is aligned with who you are and
formulate a plan to land a position you are
passionate about. Current business may be tough
but there is no need to waste your education,
training and experience. This program provides
concrete, easy-to-implement steps, actions and
strategies that will enable you to hurdle
obstacles and break through personal
barriers-regardless of your particular career
focus--to get clear on what it is you want from
your career, with a sense of confidence, renewed
focus and energy, clearly setting yourself from
the competition. Be guided through the steps to
map out a path to the career of your dreams.
Session includes: developing a career vision,
self-assessment, strategy including how to
leverage a superstar network, developing your
personal brand and action planning. How would it
feel to find a job you love so much that it
doesn't feel like work at all? This highly
focused session cuts to the chase so you can
make it possible.
Instructors: Alan Cohen, president, Acts of
Balance Executive Coaching, certified
coach; and Allen Fried, president, Career
Intervention, certified executive career coach.
1 session: September 25
26470 55A F 9:00 am-4:00 pm
TBA
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SXN 300 Fashion Design Atelier
with Caroline Simonelli $365
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Professional fashion
designers gain experience creating a garment
at the highest level as you take a personal
journey in artistic development and elevate
your technical skills to "couture"
standards. This Master class starts with
culturally inspired mood boards, customer
muse profiling and progresses through the
entire creative process employed by
creator-status designers - the croquis book,
final sketches, and swatch selection. Make a
show worthy couture garment utilizing
classic methods associated with the best
fashion houses, including moulage making,
muslins, and toiles. Attention is given to
fit techniques, sewing on luxury fabrication
and couture finishing. A special segment
teaches how to define a recognizable label
and build a designer business brand. Each
work phase is documented through
photography, providing you with a CD to add
to your portfolio. More advanced students
make toiles and more than one garment.
Enrollment is limited to 16 working
designers (be it- designer, bridge or mass
market level). Portfolios and/or sample work
must be brought to first session. Some
additional expense for necessary materials
is required. For supply list refer to our
department homepage under the heading "New
Offerings" at
www.fitnyc.edu/professionalstudies
Click here for supply list.
Instructor: Caroline Simonelli, adjunct
instructor, Fashion Design apparel, couture designer
and critic.
10
sessions: (55A) October 17, 24, 31, November
7, 14, 21
26463 55A S
9:30 am-5:00 pm TBA
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SXN 325 FIGURE DRAWING
STUDIO with Steven Broadway
$55 |
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The Figure Drawing Studio class
uses both male and female models. Participating
artists are encouraged to develop an
experimental approach to referencing the human
figure with plenty of drawing and painting.
Collage techniques are demonstrated for
inspiration to expand unique expressions of the
human form.
Students should bring a variety of art supplies
of their choosing to the first class.
Instructor: Steven Broadway, Adjunct instructor
in fashion design/art area, Fashion and
Design-Art; figurative artist; fashion and
costume illustrator.
4 sessions: (55A) September 27, October 4,
11, 18; (55B) October 25, November 1, 8, 15
26441 55A U 12:00pm-3:00pm TBA
26442 55B U 12:00pm-3:00pm TBA
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SXN 326 DYNAMIC FASHION
JOURNALS with Steven
$90
Broadway
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This course is designed for
fashion designers who want to create a more
exciting design development journal
illustrating their creations. The process
of designing a collection is explored in
depth from concept, research, color, muse,
season, price point, mood boards,
fabrication and trims. Sketch the various
categories of garments for a particular
collection of your choice and work on your
very own projects, customized to your point
of view. Participate in demonstrations and
critiques that will enhance your vision.
Instructor: Steven Broadway, Adjunct
instructor in fashion design/art area,
Fashion and Design-Art; figurative artist;
fashion and costume illustrator.
4 sessions: (55A) September 23, 30,
October 7, 14; (55B) October 21, 28,
November 4, 11
26439 55A W 6:00pm-9:00pm TBA
26440 55B W 6:00pm-9:00pm TBA
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SXF
215 Extreme Merchandising: How to Build a Salable
Garment
$225 Collection
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Designers and product developers get
a complete workout in the merchandising process and
strengthen your ability to take a design concept or
best seller forward. Shape up your skills for
satisfying customer and retailer needs and learn to
produce 50 piece minimum collections productively
within the framework of the merchandising calendar.
This hands-on Seventh Ave "real world" workshop
concentrates on the formulas for using color and
fabrication, reworking best performers, introducing
newness, and developing promotional pieces. How to
group styles, adjust for special account demands,
and monitor success at point of sale are included.
Instructor: Christine Snow, head designer, Clues
Fashion, highly experienced designer and product
developer.
4 sessions: (55A) November 4, 11, 18, December 2
26467 55A W 6:00pm-9:00pm TBA
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SXF
220 The Professional's Guide to Thriving at
Showroom Sales $185
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Get great insight, advice, and
training on how to jump-start a fashion selling
career. Learn about the wide range of opportunities
in the field and the tools necessary to maximize
performance and sales. Experience how to show a
line, how to negotiate, fundamentals of store
profitability, and how to ask for the order. Learn
up-to-the minute marketing techniques, and methods
appropriate for today's market challenges including
how to respond to vendor analysis, and how to
communicate effectively with large chain executives,
fashion directors, buyers and independent specialty
store owners. Recommended for sales novices and
career seekers.
Instructor: Louise Connor, president
The Showroom, a multi-sales organization.
4 sessions: (55A) October 22, 29,
November 5, 12
26464 55A R 6:00-9:00pm TBA |
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SXF
255
Fashion Biz Sustainability and Responsibility
$250
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Are you or your company well versed enough on how
the demands of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
are impacting today's fashion business? Do you think
that CSR is only an issue for major brands and
retailers? No matter where you work in fashion,
getting CSR education could be the smartest business
decision you make right now. Find out what you need
to know about CSR and gain a ground floor
understanding so that you can adjust your business
decisions going forward. Find out how CSR in fashion
goes well beyond child labor issues, chemical
dumping, and light bulbs, impacting the design
process, sourcing, and manufacturing. Information
imparted covers the entire pipeline right down to
retail issues such as store layout, design and
customer expectations, and demands in all markets
and product categories. Learn the vocabulary and the
underlying principles and perspectives of CSR,
concepts, theories, and controversies as you explore
high profile case studies, and learn to develop an
integrated CSR strategy and company mission.
Instructor: Nathan Fleisig, social responsibility
and compliance manager, Outerstuff.
6 sessions: (55A) October 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16,
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26468 M 6:00 pm-9:00 pm TBA |
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SXF 325 Men's Image Consulting
with Style
$150
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Does your work require you to advise,
sell, or dress male customers and clients? Increase
your professional know-how and gain multiple tips
from this menswear expert, a.k.a. "The Tailor". This
highly interactive workshop covers how to nurture
personalized style, guide career dressing, and help
with grooming and shopping. Special attention is
given to interviews and assembling a
career-appropriate wardrobe. See how to dress
casually and still look great, and learn the
specifics of fit, balance and proportion,
demonstrated on a live model. Highly recommended for
image consultants, menswear industry professionals,
or people who shop for the men in their lives.
Seminar leader: Michele Savoia, image maker,
menswear designer, master tailor, and wardrobe
consultant.
3 sessions: (55A) October 28, November 4, 11
26466 55A W 6:00pm-9:00pm TBA |
SXW 011 Beadweaving for Novices
$125
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Learn the foundational bead weaving
stitches necessary to developing beaded jewelry
pieces. Workshops concentrate on peyote stitch,
square stitch, herringbone, tubular herringbone and
right-angle basic weaves. Excellent follow-up to SXW
010 and recommended prior to SXW 012 and SXW 013.
Class limited to 15. Optional
materials fee varies up to $50. Materials are
available at each session.
Workshop Leader: Jeri Schatz, jewelry
designer.
3 sessions: September 12, 26, October 3
26465 S 9:30 am-2:00 pm TBA
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