Fashion Students From FIDM Share Their Halloween Costume Ideas

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 27, 2011

At a college where real thought goes into what to wear to school each day, creative ideas are brewing. On the downtown Los Angeles campus, future fashion and costume designers, merchandisers, and product developers are getting ready to compete at the annual Halloween Carnival, where the outfits are always inspiring.

Fashion Design major Jason Alvarez and friend Ivan Gil, will not be playing it safe. Alvarez has been sewing pelts on his faux rabbit fur cape for some weeks now. As a Gothic Indian, hell be swathed in all blackleather, metal, fur, feathers, and fabricin a costume inspired by Alexander McQueen. Gil has two fabulous looks in mind: hell use bright colors and face paint to go tribal for his African-inspired day costume.

Julianna Erno-Pearce plans to channel her favorite Victorias Secret angel, Adriana Lima. Merchandise Marketing major Kaylyn Roberts is putting together black shorts, sparkly bra, and pink cupcakes and making it work as her celebrity fave Katy Perry. And Diamond Cornelioun will be a naughty SWAT team girl in black fishnets, stilettos, and a pair of black rompers she found online.

Some students are turning to literary figures and TV for inspiration. Visual Communications major Kimberly Todd cant wait to be Disneys classic Tinkerbell: glittery green fabric, little flats with white pompoms, and wings are in the works. Willy Wonka fan Shalyn Jones is gathering the details for her Wonka costume, complete with an oversized handsewn wonka chocolate bar hanging out of her back pocket. And Madison Briede is surfing websites like ebay and etsy for period accessories to complete her authentic Pan Am stewardess look.

On the fashion colleges downtown campus, students can research their ideas at the largest fashion library on the West Coast. In addition to vintage fashion magazines and books, the library has a classic movie collection for checking historic detail. The FIDM Museum & Galleries, on the downtown campus, presents annual exhibitions of the best costume designs from movies and television for students and the public to draw inspiration.

With four dynamic California campuses, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising is the premier west coast fashion design school, educating for careers in fashion, graphic design, interior design, and entertainment. FIDMs graduates include renowned fashion designers like Monique Lhuillier, Emmy

Mobile Social Fashion App Snapette Announces $1.3M Seed Funding

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) October 13, 2011

Snapette Inc., the startup behind the iPhone application that enables fashion-savvy women to discover and share in-store products by location, today announced they have raised $ 1.3 million in seed funding. Investors in this round include leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms and strategic angels including Brian Lee, the Founder/CEO of Shoedazzle.

Snapette, founded by Harvard grads Jinhee Ahn Kim and Sarah Paiji, just completed super angel Dave McClures 500 Startups accelerator program in Silicon Valley.

This round brings total capital raised by Snapette to $ 1.5 million. The Company will utilize the funds to expand its management team, launch its service across multiple platforms, and incorporate social commerce capabilities.

The future of shopping and commerce is all about Discovery rather than Search. We are building Snapette from the ground up to lead this movement, said Paiji.

We are excited to have secured the support of world caliber investors and advisors to help us move Snapette to the forefront of social commerce, added Kim.

Snapette is the first mobile application that lets fashion-conscious users to browse products near their current location, allowing them to easily see what shoes, bags and accessories are in nearby stores right now. Fashionistas can also see what brands and items are trending globally, viewing what users around the world are sharing from their favorite stores in real time.

Users launch Snapette from their mobile devices, and are immediately connected to products through social features and crowd-sourced photos and descriptions that others around the globe have shared. Users can search by brand, store or description, or by whats New, Near and Hot. Through Snapette, users can share photos and comments with other users as well as follow their favorite contributors. Snapette also provides feeds from featured boutiques as well as fashion experts.

Snapette has been featured by Apple on iTunes AppStore in the U.S. and across the world, in New and Noteworthy, Whats Hot as well as Staff Favorites categories. Snapette currently has users in over 130 countries.

Snapette will be releasing its app across multiple platforms including the iPad, Android and Windows Phone. The Company will also significantly expand functions available over its website and over social networks.

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