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 In the spring of 2009, students had the chance to show
off their wares at two fashion shows: Signatures 2009 and the Triumph Inspiration Awards.
Watch
a video of the Signatures 2009 fashion show 
| Signatures
2009 - School of Fashion Studies Annual Fashion Show, April 27, 2009 |
The George Brown College School of Fashion Studies will
present the annual year-end Fashion Show Signatures 2009 on April 27, 2009, at
the historic and beautiful Design Exchange, 234 Bay St.
Matinee Show: 2:00pm for $10
Doors open: 1:30pm
Evening show: 7:00pm for $25
Doors open: 6:30pm
Tickets will go on sale after April 1 and information on holds on tickets may be made
by calling Sue Ascenzi at 416-415-5000, ext. 4840. Tickets can be held at the door upon receipt of payment.
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The
School of Fashion Studies presents the Signatures 2008 Annual Fashion Show |
 Join
us for this annual event which will be held at the Berkeley Church at 315 Queen Street East.
The show is on Thursday, April 24 at 7:30PM.
An entrance fee of $25 will be payable in advance, or $30 at the door.
Form more information on payment for this event, please call 416-415-5000 ext. 4840.
Poster: Nicholas Geldart
Photographer: Hilary Spencer
Model: Kayla Ellen Lew (second year F113 student)
Designer: Mike Ausgar for MADISON |
Makeover
Madness! Fashion Management students promote store with beauty treatments
Fashion Management (F102) students take their job running an on-campus fashion
store seriously.
The question they tackled recently: How do you get more students and staff to visit the Casa Loma Campus student run shop and
increase sales?
 Their
answer: A free makeover to attract new customers!
On Wednesday, October 17, 2007 the students made an open area outside in the shop into a salon - offering free manicures, hairstyling
and make up.
The plan worked - drawing dozens of students and staff for the treatments and then into the shop to browse for new looks in clothes,
jewellery and accessories.
On August 25, 2007 the designs
of first and second year students from the GBC Fashion Techniques and Design program were modeled
during an outdoor afternoon show at Dundas Square in downtown Toronto. This was the first of what is sure to become an annual Fashion
and Design Festival hosted by Sensation Mode.
 Designs
were submitted in three categories including: casual daywear, dressy/business wear, and eveningwear.
Congratulations to all of the students involved for contributing to a fabulous show. Special thanks to Trisha Cockburn, a graduating student
of the Fashion Techniques and Design program for coordinating participation by George Brown Fashion in the Festival.
View
photo gallery
Contributors: Barbie Freeman, Amy Poon, Monika-Lynn Blazon, Jamie Crosson, Janet Lee, Rosa Park, Nikki Reyes, Randi Larmour,
Alexandra Lee, Jessica Oakes, Ivana Wibowo, Rebecca Zimmerman, Jennifer Brown, Rebecca Murphy, Trisha Cockburn.
FashionWorks:
A network and career event - Thursday March 29, 3pm-6pm |
For the first time, George Brown College's Fashion Management graduates will be hosting
an event for the fashion industry, program alumni, faculty, and upcoming program grads.
Held in the Career Centre at Casa Loma Campus, FashionWorks will also include The FashionWorks
Graduate Profile Book, which highlights the accomplishments and unique skills of this year's grads as well as, an
employer gallery highlighting their business offerings, a graduate gallery showcasing recent graduates' work, and a George
Brown College gallery featuring the various fashion programs.
This event was created so students can have the opportunity to meet and mingle with industry representatives,
gain contacts, expand their network, and solidify employment upon graduation.
For more information regarding the event, please contact Sarah Foster at: sfoster510@excite.com.
For more information, regarding the Fashion Management
program call the Centre for Fashion Studies office at 416-415-5000, Ext. 4840. |
| Two
George Brown Fashion Studies alumni, Mariko
Humphrey and Monica Sosinski,
were winners in NOW magazine's design a newspaper
garment contest.
View the article in http://www.nowtoronto.com/designerchallenge/
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George
Brown fashion student wins design contest
with elegant bathroom tissue evening
gown, Press
Release, September 27, 2006
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 Second
year student Nancy Hoang, 20,
was chosen winner of the White Cashmere Student
Design Competition in Toronto on September 21,
edging out seven other finalists from three Toronto-area
colleges.
The competition was dominated
by the creativity of George Brown students. George
Brown not only sent two finalists to the competition
from the preliminary college-based competition,
but judges selected two additional students from
the college to occupy "wild card" finalist
spots from among the more than 100 students who
entered the contest at the three colleges. [Read
more...]
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George
Brown Fashion Studies - Signatures 2007
- Annual
Fashion Show, April
26, 2006 |
Join the George Brown School
of Fashion Studies on April 26, 2007 as they host
Signatures 2007 at Casa Loma.
This fashion show highlights the designs of students
in the Fashion Techniques & Design and the Fashion
Business Industry programs.
Over 250 garments from over one hundred student
designers will be showcased in the opulent yet intimate
atmosphere of Canada's famous castle. This fashion
show breaks the tradition of having models strut
their stuff on the cat walk and allows for a freer
flowing and interactive exhibit of the student designs
as the models will be navigating a pathway through
the audience.
Music will be performed by J. Rigzin Tute on the
piano.
Tickets are available for $35 in advance and $40
at the door
Location: Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace
7:00 pm Cocktail Reception with industry guests
7:30 pm Fashion Show Starts
For more information
please call 416-415-5000 ext. 4840
Poster design by Nathan Laws and Joseph DelSordo |
George
Brown Sends Four to First-Ever White Cashmere Student Design Competition.
Finalists to showcase original designs made from Cashmere Bathroom
Tissue at fashion show finale this fall.
For Immediate Release, May 24, 2006
George Brown students, Steph Paczay, Caroline
Rosenberg, Stephanie Kidd and Nancy
Hoang are preparing to compete in the White Cashmere
Student Design Competition Finale on September 21, in
Toronto.
Designed to nurture and inspire Canada's young fashion talent, the
competition challenged more than 200 fashion students at seven Toronto
and Montreal schools to create original fashions in an entirely new
medium - luxurious sheets of pure Cashmere, Canada's best-selling bathroom
tissue.
Students presented sketches and prototypes of their Cashmere BT Couture
creations to Toronto curator David Dixon and George Brown faculty including
Luda Kruts, Julie Cichon, Cynthia Givens-Sanford and Milan Shahani,
on Tuesday, April 25.
"I was completely blown away by the talent and vision of our George
Brown participants - and it was extremely difficult to choose only two
designs," says David Dixon, Style Magazine's reigning
Canadian Women's Designer of the Year. "Ultimately, the designs
that were the most creative, technically proficient and well executed
were selected. "
Eight Toronto finalists will vie for a $2,500 bursary at a glamorous Cashmere
Fashion Show Finale in Toronto. An elite panel of Canadian fashion
industry leaders including Susan Langdon, Executive
Director of the Toronto Fashion Incubator, will select the winner.
About Cashmere - www.cashmere.ca
Cashmere delivers a luxurious approach to softness in bathroom tissue to the
Canadian market. An evolution of Cottonelle, Canada's best-selling bathroom
tissue, Cashmere reflects Scott Paper Limited's continuing commitment to
providing the finest quality tissue products to Canadian consumers. Cashmere
will replace the name Cottonelle on Canadian store shelves this year - but
will continue to be 100% Canadian-made.
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For more information please contact,
Steven Heipel
Sr. Communications & Media Relations Manager
George Brown College
200 King St E, Toronto, ON,
416-415-5000 Ext.: 2268
sheipel@gbrownc.on.ca
SIGNATURES
2006 FASHION SHOW: EXPOSED!
Monday, April 24, 2006
Gladstone
Hotel, 1214 Queen St. West.
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Metronews:
workology
George Brown
graduate, Designer David Spencer aspires
to make women feel more beautiful and confident
through the customized clothing he creates. Read
the complete article
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FIVE
EASY PIECES BUILD BREAZY NEW COLLECTION
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Joanna Kulpa graduated
from the Fashion program at George Brown 7 years
ago. She recently launched her first collection
out of her Vancouver area studio. We're proud of
our graduate's success and are always working on
making our programs even better! Our fashion programs
now include course options like "Portfolio
Development" and "Small Business Planning
for Fashion". [Read
the article...]
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MAKING
IT BIG tapes the next episode in George Brown Centre for Fashion
Studies
In late November 2004, a TV production
called Making It Big chose the George Brown Centre for Fashion
Studies work space as the place to tape an upcoming episode that will
feature three talented up-and-comers striving to make it big in the
fashion profession. Each episode of Making It Big highlights
a different creative career and three talented up-and-comers striving
to "make it big". The young professionals participate in a
career challenge that replicates the demands of their industry, testing
their talent and professionalism.
Making It Big will be broadcast this spring on the Oxygen
Network in the United States and the Life Network in Canada and will
be seen in 60 million homes.
There are details about what happened in this episode that can't be
revealed until the show is broadcast. We'll add the episode air dates
as soon as we have them.
A
number of scholarships and awards are offered and presented each academic
year in almost all of the programs.
Throughout the year students in the School of Fashion Studies and
Jewellery have several opportunities to participate in local, national
and international competitions:
- Air France Competition
- Alpaca Owners & Breeders Association Student
Design Competition
- Onward New Designer Fashion Grand Prix 20th
- Inscription Fashion Show: Festival du Papier de Windsor
Fashion Week in Toronto, March 14-17, 2005
While attending the shows be sure to check out all the exciting exhibits
in the Fashion Environment area at the Liberty Grand. It includes
several installations plus a unique exhibit designed by students from
George Brown College Schools of Fashion and Design entitled Fashion
and Design Elevate Commerce to Culture. The exhibit is the first-ever
public display of the White Cashmere Collection from Cottonelle.
[Read the Press Release...]
Design
by Daniel Jones
(click on image to see the
poster) |
SIGNATURES
2004 - Year-end Fashion Show and Awards, April
22, 2004
[Look at
the pictures from Fashion Show 2004 Event]
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It was all about pushing the boundaries
of fashion and style at George Brown College's
annual fashion show. First- and second-year Fashion
Techniques and Design students strutted their designs
from classy business attire to fun and funky weekend
wear and casual dresses to bridal gowns before
a full house at Convocation hall. The student awards
presentation finished off the fashionable affair.
36 students’ awards were presented.
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- October 2004- New York City Excursion is open to
ALL students in the Business & Creative Arts programs
- April, Program Award Luncheon
- April 24th, Fashion Show, Signatures
2003 Annual Fashion Show
- June 17th at 3:00, Metro Convention Centre, Convocation
for the School of Fashion Studies
- Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, July 1-13, 2003
- Fibre Festival Fashion Show
- Art of fashion Exhibit
- Onward New Designer Fashion Grand Prix 20th
- Educational Trip to Chicago, Oct 2003
FASHION TECHNIQUES AND DESIGN
An annual fashion show highlights individual student designs
and marketing ideas. Students are graded on their abilities, creativity
and end results. Local and national design competitions and field trips
in the industry allow students to pursue their fashion interests. A
number of scholarships and awards are presented each year.
For more info on industry events visit Toronto
Fashion Incubator site.
The newly introduced Costume Studies program offers many opportunities
for interaction with the college's Theatre Arts and Dance programs.
(Costume Studies Photo Gallery)
For more information on the Dance program visit Ballet
Jorgen & George Brown College.
George Brown's performing arts programs include Theatre and Dance.
George
Brown fashion design students, Yetunde Sopeju (red), Davic
C. Wigley (white) and Phung Truong Kim (at
the right) displayed their work during Toronto Fashion Week (September
22-25th) in the lobby of the Carlu.
(Click on image to see enlarged photo).
Congratulations to Natasha Gordon winner of the Labour
Fair Poster Design Contest. |
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