Adelle L. Burda, a Fashion Knitwear Design and DEBUT Alumna, is hosting a 50% off sale on her adellelousie website.
Finds include metallic striped scarves made from bamboo yarn, crocheted headbands, and ultra-soft boatneck sweaters.
Fashion Knitwear Design Alumna Adelle Burda, who had a collection at DEBUT 2011, has a new blog chronicling her life in L.A. as a knitwear designer.
7X7 magazine has a Q&A with SF Instructor and crochet designer Violetta Vieux. A Paris-trained couture designer, Violetta has a label, VioGemini, that has just launched a bridal collection.
Name: Kate Gabrieli
Major: Fashion Knitwear Design
Hometown: Winchendon, Massachusetts
Previous college experience: A.A. in Fashion Design from Bay State College.
Grad date: March 2011
In addition to working in the FIDM Museum Shop, do you have any other internships or jobs? I did an extentive internship with T&A showroom where I got a hands-on experience. I was able to sit on buying meetings and work along side celeb stylist.
What is your favorite class so far at FIDM? Trend Reporting because I've always been interested and inspired by the fashion that's to come, not the fashion that's present. I always want to try to push fashion in the next direction and the idea of dressing the future is just inspiring.
How did you decide FIDM was the right college for you? I really wanted to do Fashion Knitwear Design and very few schools have it. I also needed to leave the east coast to truly find myself as a designer.
How did you choose your major? A professor at Bay State pointed out the fact that I was only designing knits, which I had failed to notice.
What are your career goals? I want to be a Creative Director of a company. I think the idea of pushing fashion in the direction of the images in my head is what I'm meant to do. I just want to be able to have creative freedom and to clothe people with that creative art.
How do you think FIDM will help you accomplish your goals? With the knowledge I have learned so far at FIDM and the love I have for this industry I find it imposible to fail. It's just not an option.
The FIDM Textile Design & Fashion Knitwear Design Student Show at the L.A. campus brought together industry reps from companies such as Guess?, 24 Seven, and BCBG, Graduates of FIDM, faculty, family, and friends. The FIDM Museum Promenade exhibition space on the 3rd floor featured exciting student work, sweaters from the Cotton Inc. collaboration, and a demo of the new Stoll knitting machine.
“Each year I am blown away,” said Textile Design and Fashion Knitwear Design Chairperson Anne Bennion. “This year I had a large, exceptional class and I’m just so proud of them.” Guests enjoyed drinks and a buffet while taking in the various exhibits and looking through student portfolios. “It feels amazing to be done and see all of our work in the windows after all of our hard work,” said new Alumna Kailey Pondella.
Pictured: Taylor Belanger, 2010 graduate from the Textile Design program and winner of the 2010 Textile Associate, Los Angeles (TALA) award for Surface Design.
Fashion Knitwear Design and Advanced Fashion Design Alumna Julia Nish just graduated from FIDM, but she's already creating buzz. Style Section L.A. has a Q&A with the designer, who recently showed her line at DEBUT and El Paseo Fashion Week and uses sustainable alpaca fiber for her knits.
"I started sewing in the 6th grade — I made my own Barbie clothes. But I really didn’t know that much until I went on a tour of FIDM and saw they had a knitwear program. I thought, 'Oh my God, that's awesome.'"
In my last post I was writing about the panic and exhaustion that comes
during finals. During the actual last week of finals though I somehow
morphed into something else: driven. I just had so much to do that I
became very focused and would not let myself be swayed or distracted.
It worked, and now I feel calm, relaxed and pretty okay with how
everything turned out. Here is a picture of one of my knit garments;
the vest though still has some tweaking before I can show you the final
product.
