Week 5: Passion for Fashion! July 15 - 19

Dior. McQueen. Prada. Gucci. Let’s get out our sketch books and be designers. We’ll sashay up to the city where we’ll attend the De Young exhibit Fashioning SF: A Century of Style. The first major presentation of their costume collection in over 35 years, it showcases designs from French couturiers, Japanese avant-garde designers, and other pillars of the fashion industry. A reflection of San Francisco’s long-standing tradition of self-expression through fashion, we will leave with a renewed conviction that fashion is art, and we are the canvas. At the end of the day we’ll take all we’ve learned back to the studio, where we’ll paint runway-worthy looks at our easels.