Symposium Puts Students at Heart of Fashion Industry

About the Program

Category: Children and Youth (Best in Category)

Year: 2021

The Fashion Symposium was a collaboration between Henrico County Public Schools’ (HCPS) marketing education and family and consumer sciences programs. The marketing program offers a fashion marketing class while the family and consumer sciences program teachers lead a fashion careers class. The two departments also collaborated with community partners from Goodwill of Coastal and Central Virginia and the executive director of RVA Fashion Week. The executive director brought in his contacts from the fashion industry to help make the event a reality.The purpose of the event was to expose high school students to the fashion industry, which included photographers, makeup artists, hair stylists, modeling professionals and professionals from the design world. The event brought together 75 students from 10 different HCPS high schools who participated in two hands-on industry-related sessions and were then brought together at the end for a “design challenge.” One design challenge used clothing donated from two local Goodwill stores; the second challenge was sponsored by HCPS’ marketing education and family and consumer sciences programs.