Fashion Marketing Student

When i was in high school i took a Apparel Design class and fell inlove with it. I knew right there and then that the fashion industry was for me! I had a great teacher named Mrs. Parrish who was the sweetest lady you could ever meet. She taught me everything i know about sewing and putting garments together. And to this day i thank her so much...because she was right... this is for me.

I love being a fashion marketing student. I love all the classes, the good ones and the bad. Every class is an experience in itself, it just shows you another side of the fashion industry. One of my favorite things about being a fashion student, is all the opportunities we are offered. One of the most exciting events we got to participate in was a fashion show at Belk that was put on for Tim Gunn. Who by the way, is one of the sweetest people i have ever met!

There really isnt a bad side or an ugly side of being a fashion student. The worst is probably having to do a group project that other people dont want to do and then your stuck doing the whole thing by yourself. But really thats not even a bad thing, becasue you just prove to yourself that you dont need other people to help you in your life, it would be nice sometimes, but all in all you can stand on your own two feet!

I absolutely cant wait to finish school and get out into the fashion industry. Its a whole world in itself that is fast pace, sometimes grueling, but in the end you cant help what you love and the fashion industry is deffinately a love hate relationship.

Line Between Fashion and Politics

Where some see fashion, others see politics! New York times recently did an article about the line that was crossed between fashion and politics.
Urban Outfitters was blasted on a blog for selling kaffiyehs (kuh-FEE-yeh), once a trademark headwear of Yasir Arafat, and long associated with his Palestinian countrymen as a political symbol. But I believe that selling the kaffiyehs would be fine, but Urban Outfitters took it a step farther and called this fashionable accessorie "anti-war woven scarf."
The same day this blog was posted Urban Outfitters pulled them from stores. It's Web site posted this explanation "Due to the sensitive nature of this item, we will no longer offer it for sale. We apologize if we offended anyone, this was by no means our intention."
Many wearers have not considered the kaffiyeh's political import. Perhaps what they were trying to express with these scarfs is the country's political mood.
If an older generation of Arabs still wears it as utilitarian headwear, the younger generation in the Middle East may wear it expressly to show support of the Palestinian cause.
I believe that the marketing of these scarfs would have been fine, since scarfs are in high demand this fall season. But Urban Outfitters took it too far by calling it an "anit-war wooven scarf." What do you think?