The competition heats up at Fashion International High School. Bring it! Sashay, parlay! The design competition at Fashion International High School heats up as each design house struggles to produce its first—and hopefully award-winning—line. Tensions are cropping up in the House of Pashmina, and it’s not clear whether Pashmina and her best friends will weather the runway. They’d better scramble if they want to win a real shot at a fashion career and an all-expenses-paid trip to Florence! “A high-energy journey through the world of fashion high school as seen through the eyes of several feisty fashionistas. . . . Young readers will dive into Gregory’s vibrant mix of teenage realism, glamour, and fantasy.”—Essence

Presents three novels featuring Pashmina, Felinez, Angora, and Aphra, four best friends at Manhattan's Fashion International High School who are about to enter the Catwalk competition in hopes of winning a trip to Florence, Italy.

This book represents the voices of scholars, fashion designers, bloggers and artists, who speak to the pervasive nature of fashion in matters of politics, history, economics, sociology, religion, culture, art and identity. Dialogically open, the volume offers a broad apprehension of visual matter in the global contemporary context with fashion at its core, exploring its metamorphosing, media-oriented and ‘disordered’ modes of being in the early twenty-first century. The book’s contributors consider topics of universal import stemming from the realm of fashion, its dissemination and impact, from institutional, corporate, collective and individual perspectives, reflecting on the morphing, interchanging and revolutionary quality of the visual realm as the basis for continued research in fashion studies. Contributors are Shari Tamar Akal, Jess Berry, Naomi Braithwaite, Claire Eldred, Sarah Heaton, Hilde Heim, Demetra Kolakis, Sarah Mole, Lynn S. Neal, Laura Petican, Cecilia Winterhalter, Manrutt Wongkaew.

IN Catwalk, DEBORAH GREGORY creates a new YA series that takes her famously upbeat urban voice and combines it with the appeal of Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model. Catwalk follows Pashmina, Felinez, Angora, and Aphro, four best friends at Manhattan’s Fashion International High School who are about to enter the contest of their lives. Each year, students split up into Fashion Houses and compete to design, produce, and show fully original fashion lines. The winner gets a scholarship, a professional show, and a real shot at a career in fashion. Bouncy, smart, and nearly irresistible, Catwalk is a fierce introduction to a fashion world where fabulosity trumps waist size, and there truly is room for everyone.

This book aims to explore various aspects of the use of moving images in fashion retail and fashion apparel companies in-store or online. The use of moving images is growing in numbers and in relevance for consumers. Films can be used in various forms by fashion businesses in traditional media like cinema or TV and in modern forms like in social media or moving images in high street stores. The book provides a data-oriented analysis of the state-of-the-art with certain future outlooks. Additional areas of covering fashion in moving images, such as ‘fashion company identity films’ or ‘fashion and music videos’ are covered in order to get a more complete analysis from a consumer influenced perspective.

Atrue testimony of a non-believer went for a Beauty Pageant Contest with the theme From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly and underwent an amazing metamorphosis, being transformed into a child of God. Out of curiosity, Winnie Toh participated in a nationwide beauty pageant contest. Having shortlisted in the semi-finals, she encountered a Satanic attack and was tormented to the brink of death. Despite trying all sorts of methods to survive, she was inevitably heading towards her own death. At the point of a near-death experience, she received an SMS from a Christian friend, encouraging her to surrender her life to Jesus. Already spiritually dead and with nothing to lose, Winnie mentally surrendered herself to Jesus. Gods miracles began to work: She was delivered from a physical death, and now she is a new creation in Christ, burning with passion to share with everybody the story of her life-transforming journey. Sometimes we can feel we have hit rock-bottom in every aspect of our lives. As much as we may try to work our way out of the holewhether spiritual, financial, or emotionalit seems hopeless. Satan has his grip on us, and he is not inclined to release his grasp. Author Winnie L.B.Toh knows what it is like to suffer at Satans hands. From a Caterpillar into a Butterfly is her testimony of an amazing personal metamorphosis where she ended up finding God. Gods love immediately began to work in her life. She was saved spiritually and physically. If you ever wonder how it feels like going through a metamorphosis, transforming from a caterpillar into a butterfly, read and experience every single part of the story with the Author!

Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments and products that not only enhance and enrich our lives, but also are mindful of social and sustainable issues. This book sets out to question and challenge the dominant, conventional process of fashion design that as a practice has been under-researched. While the fashion designer in industry is primarily concerned with the creation of the new seasonal collection, designed, produced and measured by economically driven factors, society increasingly expects the designer to make a positive contribution to our social, environmental and cultural life. Consequently an emergent set of designers and research-based practitioners are beginning to explore new ways to think about fashion designing. The contributors within this book argue that fashion designing should move beyond developing garments that are just aesthetically pleasing or inexpensive, but also begin to consider and respond to the wearer's experiences, wellbeing, problems, desires and situations, and their engagement with and use of a garment. Fashion Design for Living champions new approaches to fashion practice by uncovering a rich and diverse set of views and reflective experiences which explore the changing role of the fashion designer and inspire fresh, innovative and creative responses to fashion and the world we live in.