Come support your fellow Niles North fashion students as they showcase their hard work. Niles North provides students with the opportunity to take a fashion course in school and/or join the fashion club after school. Anyone is welcome to join the club or class. Students work independently on projects in class, making anything from pajamas to dresses, with all kinds of materials. Last year students were challenged to make outfits out of recycled materials, trashy fashion.

Niles North offers two courses in Fashion, Fashion Design, Construction, and Merchandising, FDCM, and Fashion Workshop. In FDCM students learn the basics of sewing, body shapes and how to dress them, and the business side of Fashion. FDCM is a required prerequisite in order to take Fashion Workshop. Otherwise, students are allowed to enroll in Fashion Workshop for multiple years after taking FDCM. In Fashion Workshop, students advance sewing techniques, enter work into competitions, and create a collection for the district fashion show.

“Fashion has impacted how I see clothes, knowing how to dress my body is one of the many things that I’ve learned and use constantly. Aside from the fashion aspect itself, the work ethic that sewing garments requires has contributed to how I work on a wholistic level. My eye and attention for detail has sharpened ever since I’ve started sewing, believe it or not. I think any art in general, not just fashion, can change someone’s approach to any given endeavor, be it a school project, a real life situation… And that’s why North offers such classes. The arts as a whole are important because they’re intellectually stimulating. They connect motivation, instruction, assessment, and lead to a deep understanding. The arts sharpen ones mind, and by means of this has fashion impacted my life,” Allyshia Duberstein, junior, said.

On Monday, May 9, 2016, there will be a fashion show at Lincolnwood Town Center.

The annual fashion show will be held at the Holiday Inn North Shore where Niles North and Niles West students will take the next steps towards their fashion career. D219 fashion students will be hosting the show for the community on May 14, 2016 at 7 p.m. There is an admission fee of $2 at the door, or you can donate a used prom dress or accessories that will be given to a non-profit organization who help less fortunate high school students in Chicago.

Watch as they display their innovative and creative ideas through clothing!

Top image: Patrick Lentz