Fashion Industry Executives Speak to Academy of Art University Fashion School Students

On Thursday, November 30, Academy of Art University's Fashion School will host a fashion industry panel discussion with designers, journalists and retail executives. This panel will address the student body and answer questions. Executive Director Gladys Perint Palmer, also a journalist, will moderate.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 23, 2006 -- On Thursday, November 30, Academy of Art University's Fashion School will host a fashion industry panel discussion with designers, journalists and retail executives. This panel will address the student body and answer questions. Executive Director Gladys Perint Palmer, also a journalist, will moderate.

The panel will include: fashion designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte; and Joe Haller and Ian Hannula of Nice Collective. Journalists Christine Suppes, editor in chief, FashionLines.com; Melissa Ceria, journalist and co-founder of ShareYourLook.com; and Donna Kato, fashion and style editor, San Jose Mercury News. Retailers Wilkes Bashford of The Wilkes Bashford Company; and Susan Foslien of stores Susan and The Grocery Store.

The Most Important Men's Fashion Specialist in the Country.

At 2:00 PM, the panel and other industry guests will tour the Fashion Design School studios at 180 New Montgomery Street. The First Floor holds the MFA Design Studios. The Seventh Floor holds the Illustration/Life Drawing, Fashion Design, Applied Textiles, Knitwear, Pattern Making, Draping and Construction Studios.

At 3:30 PM, the Industry Panel Discussion will take place at The Sheraton Palace, 2 New Montgomery Street, Twin Peaks Room.

Kate and Laura Mulleavy founded Rodarte in the fall of 2005. After bringing their first collection of 10 pieces to New York City, they found themselves on the cover of WWD and in a meeting with Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue. They followed up their first season with a 16-piece collection, which won them the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award, and continued to gain support from retailers including the likes of Bergdorf Goodman, Colette, and Maxfield. Following their third collection, they were nominated for the CFDA Swarovski Perry Ellis Award and the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund.

In 1996, Joe Haller and Ian Hannula launched Nice Collective as a creative outlet including a club night, record label, DJ agency and clothing line. This season's collection consists of 100 different pieces comprised of 80% men's and 20% women's. Celebrity clients Chris Martin of Coldplay for his entire tour, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor for his summer tour, and Brad Pitt in the upcoming film Babel.

Wilkes Bashford received an honorary doctorate from the University, as one of our "Men of Fashion" at the May 2006 graduation fashion show. He is credited as the man who "made Sutter Street" with his successful flagship store and hailed by Esquire Magazine as "The Most Important Men's Fashion Specialist in the Country." His awards include Cutty Sark Award for the Best Men's Store, Uomo Moda Collections Award for Italian Menswear in America, and the Hall of Fame of the International Best Dressed List. The Wilkes Bashford Company operates four upscale retail stores with annual sales in excess of $30 Million.

Susan Foslien opened Susan of Burlingame in the fall of 1983. Today she has four stores Susan and The Grocery Store - located in both Burlingame and San Francisco. She has developed a loyal client following by selling Jean Paul Gaultier, Romeo Gigli, Jill Sander, Prada and Balenciaga.

In addition to being a celebrated jewelry designer and published author, Christine Suppes is one of the few San Francisco journalists to attend Paris Haute Couture as publisher and editor in chief of Fashionlines.com. Launched in 1999, Fashionlines was the first purely editorial fashion e-magazine encompassing national and international coverage with editorial staff based in New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, and California. Created with the firm belief that fashion and art are intertwined, Fashionlines covers top galleries, artists, photographers and writers.

Melissa Ceria is a journalist and co-founder of Shareyourlook.com, an online community for people who love fashion to explore personal styles across the world. She has written about fashion, style, and design for The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Time, Elle Decor, Departures, Travel + Leisure, and San Francisco Magazine.

Melissa started her career as the Eye Editor for Women's Wear Daily and W magazine in 1997, covering New York's fashion and social scenes. Two years later she joined Harper's Bazaar where she wrote and produced Melissa's Diary, a monthly fashion column on trends and celebrities in Manhattan, Los Angeles, Paris and London. She has worked as a freelance journalist since 2001.

Donna Kato is the style editor for the San Jose Mercury News, an award-winning Sunday lifestyles section that includes weekly features on fashion and beauty. A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Donna started her career covering "death and weather" -- obits and blizzards -- at the Lincoln Journal. Her first fashion position was at the Kansas City Star. She stayed for five years anyway before moving on to the Los Angeles Daily News and the Mercury News. After more than a decade as a reporter covering city hall, health and fitness, youth and retail, among other topics, Donna returned to fashion in 2003 to start the Style section. She now loves the beat! While best known as the newspaper of Silicon Valley, the San Jose Mercury News enjoys the ranking of one of the top ten newspapers in the country by the Columbia Journalism Review and was named the boldest American newspaper by the Society for Newspaper Design.

For more information: 415.618.6271.

For press inquiries: Ian MacKintosh 415.618.3849

Academy of Art University is an accredited member of ACICS, NASAD, Council for Interior Design Accreditation (Formerly FIDER), (BFA-IAD), and NAAB (M-ARCH). The Academy also has one of the country's top Photography Schools, one of the nation's best Graphic Design Schools, and a highly regarded Architecture School.

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