What’s in style at Canada’s fashion schools: Hand stitching, pattern-making and 3-D tech 🧵🪡👖👗💻
When the pandemic first struck, Fanshawe College’s fashion design class of 2020 was still midway through creating its graduation collections. New safety precautions meant even photographing their finished garments was impossible, so the London, Ont., school’s annual graduate runway presentation pivoted to illustration. In collaboration with other peers at the college, the class produced an animated film that went on to win an award at the Canadian International Fashion Film Festival.
Like the industry their grads are preparing for, fashion schools have had to be nimble. The past two years of pandemic restrictions have accelerated changes in postsecondary programs that offer technical training for careers in the design, making and retailing of clothing. Curricula and the student experience have been adapted in ways that reflect shifting societal values while also keeping pace with industry technology and addressing the new priorities of a changing work force.
Established factories are also looking for skills and ideas around sustainability, such as zero-waste manufacturing. “The older generation did it by hand,” Waller says. “The industry is looking to our younger generation who can do that so much more efficiently.” Restrictions were also the mother of invention when it came to Seneca’s visual merchandising class and creating displays. “There was only the dollar store,” Côté says about a time when retail closures became an opportunity to get creative. “We found imaginative ways to reuse what we already had on hand and, as a result, created more products for the students with a sustainable focus.
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