Fashion Design Text Complexity Do Now Assignment #2

Article Title: Retail's Social Media Wave Next Step: Driving Sales

By: Rachel Strugatz

Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 pg. 6

Directions: Read and translate the following sentence into your own words. Identify the figurative language being used and define the challenging vocabulary words.

Having a social media presence is table stakes every single retailer has one.

Table Stakes noun 1. A stake that a player places on the table at the beginning of a game that may not be changed once the deal begins.

2. Table takes, the limiting of a bet to the amount remaining in a player's table stake during a game.

Figurative Language

What is Figurative Language?

To learn about the

Intro Guide to Fashion Design

Click on the following link and please share what YOU have learned for sure!!!

http://www.ooshirts.com/guides/Intro-Guide-to-Fashion-Design.html

Pre Assesment Educational Talent Search

Welcome TRIO team @ John Jay college N.Y.C.!!! I would like to better serve your needs and to do so I'd like to learn more about your technological proficiency. Kindly answer the following questions.

1. What type of information technologies do you use and for what purpose?
2. Is there a specific computer program you would like to learn this summer?
   

Fashion High @ FIT Museum

On Tuesday March 22, 2011 Ms. McDowell, Ms. Vasquez, Ms. Jernejec and I chaperoned a group of our Fashion Design students to view exhibits at The Museum at FIT. The main lobby featured the His & Hers exhibit. “His & Hers compares men’s and women’s clothing from the 18th century to the present”. Vivienne Westwood 1980 - 1989 "examining Vivienne Westwood's transition from street stylist (and Punk innovator) to high fashion designer during the 1980's." The lower level featured the Japan Fashion Now exhibit. “Japan Fashion Now is the first exhibition to explore contemporary Japanese fashion in all its radical creativity from high fashion to street style."

Please express what you learned from our museum visit.

We would like to thank our chaperon's Ms. Vasquez and Ms. Jernejec , Fashion Design Department Coordinator Ms. Manning, and our Principal Mr. Blank for all their support.

American Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum field trip was a blast!!!!!
We would like to thank Rachel and Jennifer who provided us with a group tour and shared valuable information about the artworks.

Thank you to Ms. Boulamaali for organizing this field trip and to our escorts Ms. Trottman, Ms. Lucas and Ms. Stanzick :)

Lets reflect on what we learned for sure.

Airbrush alert !!!!!

Airbrush alert: UK wants to keep fashion ads real

Before After

Fashion Editor Ms. Sylvia Hui from Staten Island Advance wrote a very interesting article about how fashion ads airbrush women in magazines to make them look thinner. Fashion students & teachers I would like to hear your opinions about this. Feel free to post a comment.

Click on the following link to read the article:

http://www.silive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/airbrush-alert-uk-wants-to-keep-fashion/af46ae85d63d40b0885d15248158f964

Sept. 20, 2010,

Associated Press