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Fashion Illustration offered by Heidi Busk

Designers who are ready to take things to the next level! We are thrilled to have designer Heidi Busk teaching this amazing workshop! Heidi is offering a $75.00 discount on this valuable class! Click here for all of the information!

If you want to get a job in the fashion design industry, refine your skills to get ahead, or start your own label, Illustrator is the industry standard software you need to master. Illustrator, as a tool, allows communication of ideas to buyers, factories and investors. This comprehensive course teaches all of the skills you need to know for using Illustrator for the Fashion Design Industry.

Sign up before the workshop is full!… Read more!

SUBMARINE soundtrack contest

Calling all Fashion Denver fans!!

We are having a contest to win the Submarine movie soundtrack. Anyone is welcomed to participate! All you have to do is create a look that has an “under the sea” theme and post a picture on the Fashion Denver page. The contest will end on June 29th and there will be two lucky winners of the Submarine soundtrack! Let’s see what fun fashions you can create.… Read more!

Quilt Stories, coming to Fashion Denver this Saturday!

Saturday, June 25th from 2pm-7pm
Fashion Denver | 1070 Bannock Street
Come and tell your story..

It’s hard to believe that commonplace objects, such as clothes, shoes, and books, will tell the tales of this time in history a few years down the road. However, fads and fashions become pieces of nostalgia and remind us of times past (case in point: the recent obsession with everything 80’s). But even the simplest of things can become pieces of bonafide art, a point Eliza Fernand makes with her touring project, Quilt Stories, coming to Fashion Denver this Saturday.

Photo from Boise Weekly’s article about this fantastic project..

Eliza travels the country, setting up camp in various cities, and collecting stories and anecdotes about quilts from passersby. “Quilts are such a part of the American life, that everyone has had some run-in with a quilt at some point,” she says. “The stories are sparked by a quilt memory but their contents vary greatly, this is what I had hoped- I encourage tangents.  One trend I have noticed is that quilts are often given to mark rights of passage- birth, graduation, marriage.”

Throughout her travels, Eliza has heard many fascinating and touching stories, signifying … Read more!