Porter Creek Secondary School’s Fashion Art Design School (FADS) showed off their hard work in a fashion show held on June 4 at the school in Whitehorse.
The 21 grade 10,11 and 12 students in the program showed off the three-piece clothing collections that they designed and produced in the lead-up to the show.
Kyla Greve, who teaches the program, said the students who had been through the program, Grade 10s in semester one and Grade 11 and 12 students in semester two, worked feverishly to complete their outfits.
“They create a collection based out of their own imagination, with their own inspiration; we go get fabric sourced down in Vancouver and they create every single piece you see on the runway,” Greve said.
Greve explained that the trip to Vancouver also offers the students a chance to tour universities and colleges offering training in fashion, design, makeup and hair.
With fabric in hand, she said the last five weeks of the semester are dedicated to the students creating their collections. The students have come a long way. As Greve said, some of them enter the program with no sewing experience whatsoever.
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