Tan-Gan Fashion Workshops: Learn from the Best!

Posted by Lauren on May 31, 2010 in Fashion | 0 comments

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Have you always wanted to go to fashion school but couldn’t afford to take time off from school or your day job? Fashion workshops are a great way to learn a few tricks of the trade despite your busy schedule. They’re also the perfect introduction to the realities of the industry and the work involved in your chosen field. Since they’re not as extensive as demanding as a full-time course, you won’t have a problem balancing fashion classes with your everyday responsibilities. And if you attend the right workshop, you can even learn from the best names in the industry.

STI Center of the Arts and Tan-Gan recently put together the Tan-Gan Designer Fashion Workshops. The “Designer Fashion Workshops” compromise of a group of respected industry experts that have come together to share their knowledge with our students. They have an amazing faculty that includes Inno Sotto, Jojie Lloren, Lulu Tan-Gan, Patrice Ramos-Diaz, Joey Samson, Robi Lolin, Roy Gonzales and many more.

Their summer workshop is about to end and it was such a success that a new set of workshops will be available for the months of June, July, and August. If you complete your enrollment on or before June 7, 2010, you can even avail of a 15% early bird discount! Click on the table above for information about fees and discounts. Under the cut is the schedule of the June, July, and August sessions.

1) FASHION DESIGN MODULE:

Fashion Design Lecture (Joey Samson) & Fashion Design Application (Robi Lolin)

This special workshop was created by a collaboration of our faculty aimed to impart their strengths and experiences to our students. This module covers capsule references to the History of Eastern and Western Costume, the Design Process, Fashion Illustration/Sketching, Technical Drawing, Business of Fashion and Textile Science. Students will get an overview of fashion design while gaining insights from our faculty members of movers and shakers in the Philippine fashion sector.

8 sessions Sat. 10:00am – 4.30pm (lunch break 12:30-1:30) JUNE 26 JULY 3,10,17,24,31 AUG 7, 14

P20,000

Joey Samson is an alumnus of La Salle and Slim’s Fashion and Arts School. Those with an eye for detail and who are willing to push the style envelope best appreciate his aesthetic. His pieces permeate his signature: apart from the androgynous trademark, they thread the fine line between trendy and wearable

The multi-talented Robi Lolin is an alumnus of the UST, Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Advertising. He has lent his fashion design and illustration talents to various fashion magazines and international fashion competition. Over the past three years, he has worked as the head designer at Folded and Hung.

*Guest instructors include but are not limited to Jojie Lloren, Lulu Tan-Gan and Inno Sotto.

2) Basic Flat Pattern Drafting – Jojie Lloren

Students will learn to draft basic slopers/patterns, the building blocks of a style pattern, in order to learn the tools, terms, and methods used for flat pattern drafting.

8 sessions Sat. 9:00am – 12noon JUNE 26 JULY 3,10,17,24,31 AUG 7, 14

P9,600

3) Draping 1 – Jojie Lloren

This workshop introduces the student to another method of pattern making by draping. The student will work with fabric instead of paper to create a basic pattern set consisting of the front and back bodice slopers; front and back skirt slopers and the basic sleeve.

8 sessions Sat. 12noon – 3pm JUNE 26 JULY 3,10,17,24,31 AUG 7, 14

P9,600

Jojie Lloren attended the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne after winning the grand prize at the Concours International des Jeunes Createurs de Mode in Paris. This UP-B.S. Clothing Technology, graduate has won many prestigious fashion awards and continuous to be one of today’s most respected fashion designers

4) Creative Exercise in Sewing – Pidge Reyes

This workshop aims to familiarize the student with the various tools and machines used in the garment business. Creative exercises will teach the student how to sew using a sewing machine as well as prepare the student for advanced sewing courses in garment construction.

8 sessions Sat. 3pm – 6:00pm JUNE 26 JULY 3,10,17,24,31 AUG 7, 14

P9,600

An alumnus of UP, BS Clothing Technology, Pidge Reyes is a full time sculptor who applies the technical skills of garment production into his artworks. Pidge also does product development for garment factories particularly in active wear and also creates various fabric-based products such as hats, throw pillows, bags and the like for select brands and specialty stores.

5) Fashion Styling – Noel Manapat

Fashion Stylists are high in demand these days. Styling is an essential factor in making or breaking an image. Students will learn techniques of fashion styling through styling assignments. Great stylists can become fashion editors or fashion consultants to big brands.

8 sessions Sat.3pm – 6:00pm JUNE 26 JULY 3,10,17,24,31 AUG 7, 14

P9,600

Noel Manapat is a graduate of Commercial Art from the Ateneo. His styling directions based on brand identities is culled from his previous experiences in advertising and publishing as copywriter and editor-in-chief. His continuous exposures led him to expand his styling work into product development, brand design and consultancy. As a freelance stylist, his clients include celebrities, major television networks, top fashion designers and the retail giant, Bench.

To enroll, call STI Center of the Arts at 994-5592 or 0918-8031322; send an email at stifashionworkshops@gmail.com; or visit the school at 5/F, STI College-Global City, University Parkway Drive, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. You may also visit www.sti.edu/fashion for more information.