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New Hot Topics Courses
This Fall, the CPS is offering a new selection of Hot Topics
courses.
SXF 840 Career
Opportunities Working with Color
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$70.00 |
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If you are an artist,
designer, Color Specialist Certificate
student or have a creative eye and are
looking for fresh career direction find out
how color knowledge and talent can be
extremely marketable in fashion and related
businesses. Meet a panel of successful
professionals from a variety of fields
sharing how color expertise is the bedrock
of their success. Gain insight into how you
can use your own color strengths to
distinguish your employment opportunities
and enhance your promotability in fashion
and beyond. |
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Moderator: Victoria
Revene, designer, color and trend expert and
consultant.
1 session: (55A) December 4 |
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SXM 125
Still-Life Fundamentals for Fashion Stylists |
$195.00 |
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Expand and take your
styling skills into the growing lucrative
still-life styling field. Learn to position
products and soft-goods in visually
stimulating ways that do not require use of
models. Hear a panel of professionals cover
on-set still life photo styling do’s and
don’ts and share process secrets.
Participate in an actual photo shoot and
receive a tearsheet for your portfolio. |
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Instructor:
Nancy Alusick, Stylist and Maria Vullo,
Photographer.
2 sessions: (55A) October 4, 5 |
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SXD 635
Quick
Sketching for the Pet Product Business
.9 CEU |
$150.00 |
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 Learn to capture your pet apparel and
lifestyle design concepts through simple
sketching techniques. Draw basic dog or cat
figures, and add your pet fashions complete
with illustrated details in flat sketches.
Proceed to drawing accessories and lifestyle
items like beds, play stations and feeding
dishes. If you have your own line or plan to
launch one, enhance your ability to
communicate your ideas to samplemakers,
patternmakers, and contractors. Although no
professional art training is required, basic
creative abilities and familiarity with the
pet product arena is helpful.
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Instructor:
Marco Gallotta, artist and illustrator.
3 sessions: (55A)October 16, 23, 30 |
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SXD 650 Introduction to Pet Product Branding
.9 CEU |
$200.00 |
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Do you have concepts
for a new pet product or a line but don’t
know how to create an identifiable brand
that stands out from the competition?
Whether your aim is to market pet fashion
apparel, accessories or other lifestyle
items this course enables you to identify
your customer segment (high end, mass
market, etc) and determine what makes your
brand unique and relevant to that consumer.
Once you’ve achieved this insight, you learn
to create the right image, including brand
name, logo and collateral materials.
Information includes promotional tools and
other aspects of the branding process to
help you develop a cohesive and unique
product story that stands apart in the
marketplace. |
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Seminar
leaders: Janet L. Brav, professor,
Advertising and Marketing Communications and
Deborah S. David, assistant professor,
Advertising and Marketing Communications.
3 sessions: (55A) November 11, 18, 25 |
| SXP 325 Designerspeak for
Technical Designers and Product Developers
.9 CEU |
$235.00 |
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Learn to
communicate effectively with designers to
produce first rate samples, that lead to a
more efficient pre-production process. Learn
to interpret your designer’s habits and
style, establishing a complementary
relationship for you, your staff and the fit
model. Discover the importance of memorizing
the sloper’s measurements, the sewing
machine’s functionality and setting up a
proper workstation. The art of
diplomatically making suggestions to adjust
the designer’s creations for better fit is
stressed. Methods for making a superb first
sample are demonstrated including
corrections and tips for making the pattern,
cutting and sewing. |
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Instructor:
Albert Sakhai, professional couture
designer, with experience in women's, men's
and theatrical custom apparel.
3 sessions: (55A) October 29, November 5, 12 |
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SXR 030
The Shopping Environment: Developing the
"WOW" Experience
.9 CEU |
$190.00 |
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Retail success depends
entirely on a customer centric strategy.
This course examines the five "rights" of
merchandising- having the "right" product,
in the "right" place, at the "right" time,
"right" price, and "right" quantity. Learn
how to utilize space, aesthetics, and
employees to foster increased sales and
repeat patronage. This course concludes with
a focus on a store's best asset- the staff.
Methods to achieve top sales and premium
customer service are reviewed. Get a
blueprint for creating the “wow” factor for
your customer. |
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Instructor:
William Lynch, instructor, Fashion
Merchandising Management, former major
retail management executive.
3 sessions: (55A) November 5, 12, 19 |
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SXW
130
Make Your Own Buttons, Bands,
Buckles, and Bangles |
$205.00 |
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Design and make your
own buttons, headbands, buckles and bangles.
Work with Plexiglas, a highly malleable easy
to use plastic to create fun, colorful,
retro pieces, hot in today’s fashion market.
This unique program starts with design
coaching and teaches how to cut, file,
shape, carve, drill, polish, color and
finish your pieces. Once you master the
basics, you can begin execution on a
matching set. Skills learned can be
performed at home with a minimum of tools,
equipment and inexpensive materials.
Bring to first session: The Kit for this
course at a discounted price of $172 at All
Craft, 135 W. 29th Street, Suite 205,
212-279-7077. |
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Instructor:
Vladimir Deming, MA in decorative art;
decorative jewelry designer; antiques
restorer.
6 sessions: (55A) November 4, 11, 18, 25,
December 2, 9 |
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