fashion on the couch: Parsons Fashion School

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Parsons Fashion School

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Parsons, the prestigious and well-venerated fashion school in New York, counts the likes of Marc Jacobs (class of 1984) and Jack McCollough and Hernandez Lazaro of Proenza Schouler (class of 2002) among its alumni, so every year when the graduating seniors NEW YORK (Reuters) - Disgraced fashion designer John Galliano is continuing his public image rehabilitation with an upcoming stint teaching a master class at one of New York's leading design schools. Galliano, who was fired by Dior in 2011 after he was As you may have anticipated, a wrench has been thrown in John Galliano's plans to teach The School of Fashion at Parsons. Led by an anonymous source, a petition has been started to prevent the defamed designer from teaching a three-day master class series A four-day workshop and discussion that the controversial fashion designer John Galliano was to lead at Parsons the New School for Design has been canceled, the Manhattan school announced on Tuesday evening. The class had attracted an unusual In the case of the Parsons Fashion Benefit, held Wednesday night at Pier 60 at The event raised nearly $1.7 million, which goes directly to Parsons The New School for Design student scholarships. It’s been 10 years since Vena Cava’s Lisa Mayock A professor at Parsons the New School for Design in New York has accused celebrity designers - particularly Rihanna - of launching clothing lines that take attention away from new, young fashion talent. Jonathan Kyle Farmer, an associate .

What could be more iconic for the fashion district than the opening shot of the reality show Project Runway panning the outside of the Parsons School of Design? Well, pretty soon the famous show, which made designing clothes so hot that schools like Parsons The New School for Design has announced a new four-day master The racist rant is two years old now, but no one in the fashion industry has forgotten it. Many have likely not forgiven its offense, and may find his hiring by Parsons According to Lucky, seniors in Parsons’s BFA fashion program received an email this weekend Brenda Knight (‏@BrendaKnightt) wrote “I wish I could go back to school again!!!” Others have been more reluctant to embrace the news. Students at the Parsons School of Design have launched a petition aimed at imploring the university to repeal its invitation to disgraced fashion designer John Galliano, who has been invited to teach classes at the top New York fashion design institution. .