Industry Icons Attend Fashion School Show and Awards Ceremony

As one San Francisco fashion design school proves, exposure to fashion industry icons is a great benefit of going to school and earning your degree.

Fashion Figures Receive Awards

Last April, a San Francisco's fashion school honored these industry icons at its annual fashion show and awards ceremony:

• Loulou de la Falaise, a designer from Paris, who has worked with Yves Saint Laurent. She has also won a Pulitzer Prize for her fashion writing.
• Robin Givhan, the fashion editor of The Washington Post.
• Zac Posen, a successful designer who got his start in New York before being heralded by Vogue and New York Times fashion critics. His designs currently sell at Henri Bendel, among other notable boutiques.

Finding a Niche in a Fashion Hub

Exposure to living success stories like the ones above is one of the great things about attending fashion design schools in cities like San Francisco. If fashion icons are going to stop, speak, or show on the west coast, San Francisco and Los Angeles are going to be their locales of choice. Plus, two-thirds of most fashion designers live in either New York or California.
Fashion icons visiting your school isn't the only benefit, either. These same designers, writers, and editors may show up and observe the student-produced fashion design show, which gets your designs in front of the eyes of decision-makers and industry influencers. It isn't just a degree you get from school; the exposure is priceless, too.
Sources
Fuerte Ventura, "Academy of Art University Fashion School Announces 2007 Honorary Doctorate Recipients"
Loulou de la Falaise
Washington Post
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Fashion Designers"

Joe Cooper is a freelance education and technology writer and edits medical literature. He holds a bachelor's in American Literature from UCLA.