California Design College Students Turn Glam To Green

2008-06-13 08:58:23 - Student fashion designers help save the planet with glamorous sustainable garments.

Los Angeles (June 7, 2008) - With the theme, 'Eco & Vine', the concept of environmental awareness and the glamour of Hollywood intersecting with one another through fashion, design students at the California Design College created sustainable designs that are fashionable and wearable and also help to reduce waste, and ultimately, our carbon footprint. Additionally, in the spirit of environmental awareness and respect for our planet the entire stage set was covered in raw canvas fabric that will be re-used by students in fundamental construction classes to produce shopping bags. The bags will be used instead of environmentally harmful plastic shopping bags. In keeping with the theme, the sold-out venue for the student fashion show was the Avalon Hollywood on Vine Street in Hollywood.

For this fashion show, 21 student fashion designers were required to follow earth-friendly criteria. To accomplish this, some designers chose to find outdated, post-consumer garments from thrift stores to personal closets, and to then deconstruct them to create something entirely new while others used organic fabrics and dyes, as well as recycled trims to create their garments. Some designers went even further to "go green" by recycling nontraditional materials such as plastics and paper bags in their designs. By choosing to create sustainable clothing, the designers are demonstrating how the fashion industry can do its part to preserve our planet for generations to come.

This year's featured fashion design students who used the eco-friendly criteria were: Justine Babb, Richard Berrueta, Anita Chugarnkar, Lillian Love Dennis, Kristin Don, Erick Garcia, Stacy Godwin, Yuki Haya, Cesar Hurtado, Tiffany Johnson, Gina Karris, Liz Kok, Linda Miller, Maria Sonia Moreno, Kelsea Neal, Fabiana Pigna, Antoinette Love Ransom, Paris Smith, Altha St. Clair, Brittany Stocker, Soyla Tostado.

About California Design College

California Design College prepares students to pursue careers in creative and challenging industries by offering degrees in the following areas: Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Fashion Design; Bachelor of Science degrees in Fashion Marketing & Management, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Set & Exhibit Design, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics and Web Design & Interactive Media; and Associate of Science degrees in Fashion Design, Fashion Marketing, Graphic Design, and Web Design & Interactive Media Design.

California Design College is one of The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu), a system of over 40 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals.

California Design College, located at 3440 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, California (near Normandie) in Los Angeles' mid-Wilshire area, offers career-focused degree programs. For more information about 'The Annual Student Fashion Show' or for details about the school's programs, visit www.artinstitutes.edu/cdc/ or call (213) 251-3636. The school is now enrolling for its summer quarter classes starting in July, 2008.