School of Fashion

I've been teaching this summer at a couple different programs, I just started working at the awesome "Hands-on-3rd" on 3rd Street in West Hollywood and am working my second summer at The Children's Arts Institute in Van Nuys. I teach Upcycling, where we make things from materials you might normally throw away or recycle such as newspapers, grocery bags and magazines...and a jewelry class, today we made fabric "tube" necklaces, using beans and rice to create a Pebbles Flintstone looking type necklace.









One of the students in my jewelry class used to go to school with a girl named Cecilia Cassini, who is a kid fashion designer already making big moves. She told me that she was checking out Cecilia's blog and saw me on it. I realized I forgot to blog about this awesome experience. At school this year, in my after school enrichment Fashion class, I had Cecilia come in and speak to my kindergarten and first grade students. She was amazing! She brought in some of the dresses she made, along with scraps of fabric, thread, fashion magazines and fabric scissors...the kids were passing the examples around and asking questions. Cecilia talked about how she makes her dresses, having personal style and her life experiences, which are vast even at 11 years old! Most importantly, she inspired my students to start making their dreams and goals real and alive NOW instead of waiting till they grow up. I already had a kindergarten student's mom tell me that her daughter wants to be a fashion designer and they are getting her a sewing machine! Thanks Cecilia!

Beauty Cuties for bigger and littler girls alike

I wanted to mention... after meeting a couple cute lil fashionista's today at a very hip hollywood cafe, and I believe they were drinking coffee!!!! ; ) ...that my lil fashionista weekend workshops "Beauty Cuties" is for all ages. If there's a group of pre-teens or older girls, maybe aged 12-15, we can hold a special class specially designed and designated for them.

Just email artgirlsy@hotmail.com and we can talk. We can gear it toward anything you want...say a bunch of girls wanted to have a class with their friends and work on say, transforming and refashioning t-shirts "generation t" style, or learning about making headbands and jewelry, we could do a class on that. Rio and I would be happy to acomodate all your fashionista needs at "Beauty is Pain"...beauty also feels so good!

Looking forward to sharing the world of expression through fashion with you!