Move over, “Project Runway.” A new summer program at Interlochen Arts Camp will require designers to take fashion to a different level.

Interlochen launches experimental fashion 'intensive'

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Move over, “Project Runway.” A new summer program at Interlochen Arts Camp will require designers to take fashion to a different level.

The six-week Experimental Fashion Intensive will have high school campers designing garments on paper, making patterns and creating them out of fabric and unconventional materials — using tools like sewing machines, CNC routers and laser cutters — if not behaving snarkily.

The fine arts-based program will explore everything from fashion history, design and illustration to color schemes and fabric choices, including materials created by new technology. Students will use studio time to make a line of pieces based on a single concept or theme, which they’ll show off in a runway fashion show open to the public.

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“We have a full, 40-foot runway that we construct," said instructor Johnson Hunt. "This year we’re moving it indoors to the new Dennison Center so we can better control the lights and the music and possibly have a video on the screen that goes with the show. In the past (the show) has been fun but outdoors, so we want to take it to the next level."

The new major is an outgrowth of the camp’s popular three-week Experimental Fashion Studio for High School and Intermediate campers, which began in 2013.

“We call it experimental because it’s not traditional fashion in the sense that students are just creating patterns for pieces and making wearable hanger-ready clothes,” said Melinda Zacher-Ronayne, director of Interlochen’s Visual Arts program. “You can use plastic bags, newspaper and other nontraditional materials. So students can wear fashion pieces that are more structural. Maybe a person can put it on, but they can’t really move. At the same time, students who want to make wearable, fashionable, functional clothes can.

“There are so many high school students out there that have an interest in fashion design. I see fashion portfolios all the time but they’ve never made anything or anything with education behind it. I see this program for students who don’t have fashion in their schools or who want to major in fashion at college. They can come here and get a full portfolio in a summer that will help them apply to these colleges,” Zacher-Ronayne said.

The camp programs got a boost from the popular TV reality series “Project Runway,” which recently ended its 15th season. The Emmy-winning show pits designers against each other to create the best looks in themed challenges judged by co-creator and supermodel Heidi Klum and others.

But students in Interlochen’s program won’t have a Mood Fabrics store to shop at. And if their looks can't walk the runway, they'll be exhibited instead.

“I think ‘Project Runway’ had a huge influence on students loving fashion and wanting to do that,” Zacher-Ronayne said. “But how we see experimental fashion is still more experimental than ‘Project Runway.’ We want students coming up with a concept and making do with what they have.”

The program will be taught by two instructors, including Hunt, with help from an assistant and guest artists like Jasonpaul McCarthy, director of the fashion marketing program at Parsons School of Design.

"We're considering even bringing someone in from a larger company to pose a prompt for the students," said Hunt. "Like a sporting goods store might say, 'We need an idea for a new sneaker' and the students would throw solutions at them. Because you're not going to be working in a vacuum where you do whatever you want when you want, but work within the constraints of a company or corporation."

If the program is successful, it could be offered to Intermediate campers and adapted for students at Interlochen’s fine arts boarding high school, Interlochen Arts Academy, Zacher-Ronayne said.

“It’s a good way to see the interest on a smaller scale, in a six-week intensive,” she said.

 

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