(For those of you who are unaware, I’ve started teaching at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, so you may notice some of these entries becoming significantly esoteric, as they may pertain to specific things which are going on in my classes.)

OK, I’m posting a little check list here, so you all know what I expect you to turn in on Tuesday evening :

1. The Merchandising/Collage page - This should be a a half page of text, describing your contemporary customer, the trend which might appeal to her this season, and a description of an architectural detail that might be abstracted as garment construction in your blouses. Below that, on the same page, should be a collage of the above-mentioned architectural detail.

2.A composition of the 6 flats of your white blouses, landscape orientation, on layout paper, front and back views, in pen, traced, not as découpage. (you can do this only when you have effectively convinced me that you are the artistic heir of Marcel Duchamp)

3.A composition of the 6 flats of the jackets and coats, front and back views, with reference images, that you documented this week, also in landscape orientation, on layout paper, in pen, traced flats, no découpage.

4. 6 concept drawings, on 81/2″X11″ white paper, in graphite (pencil), portrait orientation, depicting each of your 6 blouses, on a female fashion illustration figure, with the front and back flats of the blouse on the same page, next to the figure, see below:

5. The composition of skirt flats that you did for last week. You may want to rework them if they don’t conform to the criteria outlined in #3. These standards apply to that assignment as well.

6. You are also responsible for the journal work and the additions to your Swatch books, but it’s like Mathew 25:13, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh . . . [to collect your journals for grading]”
I’m enjoying perusing your folio assignments. Some of you have really gone the distance with this project, and I ‘m planning on posting some of the most clever responses to the assignment here on the “Blogzalo”. Stay tuned . . .