What would you do?

Michael Dorsey is a waiter at a restaurant, but he used to be an actor two years ago. He has not acted since two years ago. Michael Dorsey went to his agent after hearing some news. He wanted to prove to his agent that he can get the role somehow. His agent did not believe him what so ever. What Michael Dorsey did correct was that he did not let anything stop him from getting a role. He dressed up like a woman and he went to the audition. Right before he could fully audition the actor/director told him no, that he was not right for the part.  “…working for the same company for a lifetime are long gone and in some industries having one job for a significant period of time is frowned upon rather than considered an asset.” Michael did not take no for an answer and he stood up for himself. He did not fail to show his disguise, he stayed in costume the whole time. Later on he showed his agent how he got the role and that he was able to achieve his goal in getting the role. “As unattainable as a dream job might sound, with the right amount of forethought and preparation, you can make the move...” What he possibly did wrong was that, instead of telling his female friend, the one who really wanted the role also, he lied to her and did not tell her about him getting the role. Sometimes to achieve your dream job you might need to go above and beyond for something you really want. And that is something that Michael did. To get a big role he had to dress up like a woman and he was able to get the role. “...to conduct a self-exploration and identify possible careers that truly inspire.”

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How has Fashion,Creativity and Design changed me

I love everything about fashion. The fact that I could not go to the school I wanted to, I had to choose The Art Institute of LasVegas. FIDM was my first priority but the expenses were a little more than i expected. When I heard that they had a fashion program that changed my whole perspective on this school. I was really hoping that this school at the time had fashion design because that was my whole set mind when it came to a fashion classes or main subject of fashion. When I realized that I was taking the management part of it, I actually was super happy because I was going to learn the management of managing my own company; breaking all things down to target markets to strategies to a successful business. I have learned so much just from coming to school, classes, and participating in fashion things. Fashion, creativity, and design have helped me as a whole and fashion student. Being here at AILV has taught me a lot about myself as a person and student. Fashion itself is why my degree will be outstanding because this school provides the best. According to the design book it states; aims to inspire and empower designers by helping them to develop their personal creativity and use it as a tool to achieve design goals. It also states that creativity is a tool available to anyone who understands its components and teaches students to identify and then seek out or avoid the personal and environmental factors that promote or inhibit their own creativity.

1.    http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/creativity-in-fashion-design-9781563678950/

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Evaluate the clips "How To Make It In America"

How To Make it in America revolves around the main characters Ben and Cam, who are trying to break into the New York City fashion industry. There is also the cousin Renee, who is a authentic businessman who is trying to make a name for himself with his Jamaican energy drink brand called “Rasta Monsta.” The show's main characters, Ben and Cam, struggle their way to make a name for themselves and want to "Make it in America" with their new up and coming clothing brand called “Crisp.” Constant barriers pop up along the eighth episode of the first season that make it worthwhile when Ben and Cam finally make some dough by making a few hundred t-shirts for a big clothing distributor named Haraki. The difference in How to Make It in America aside from other similar shows, is that the clothing industry is an intriguing front to delve into as a show and supporting characters like Ben rich's wall street friend from high school and Domingo who is played by Kid Cudi. I liked the episodes I watched, and I was able to learn from them. The basis throughout the episodes involved two working class guys who were struggling to clearly make a living for themselves. Ben, had a job at Barneys but he aspired toward a more fulfilling career in designing. Cameron is just an outgoing guy, but he was very much undisciplined, he was Ben’s best friend who has a love for hustling. When the pair decided to start their own line of jeans, the series really starts to take off and they go through a lot. As they went through several obstacles they were able to learn along the way that the industry for getting their brand out there is not as easy as they may have thought it would be.

Final: Tag Line

                                   "If I can't make you beautiful, no one can."

         

"We tried to make a single tagline work, but had no success"-Davis & Baldwin 67

"With regard to language, different media groups here use different tagline"- Davis & Baldwin 67 

Final: Paragraph emphasizing your specialty and your five key talents, weaving in your most important values, passions and skills

Ways to emphasize my specialty would be fashion sketching. Fashion sketching can be easy for some but it can also be hard for others.  For me fashion sketching came easy because of the professor who taught me how to do the sketching. My most important values is understanding styling and what I am doing. If a designer wants something done a specific way then it is my job to make the designer happy and content. My professor was able to break down the steps and show me how to do the sketching an easy way. "It is very rare that successful brands arise out of instinct alone." Davis & Baldwin 193 Sketching is that way you see things in your perspective because others might see it differently but you might see it a different way than others. Fashion sketching consists of paper and something to draw with. An easy way to do some fashion sketching is to get some tracing paper and simply do some tracing for practice. Practice does make perfect. A situation where fashion sketching might be useful for me would be if my designer is thinking of something and needs to have a quick sketch done for them. "Every agency or structure within a company is different and structures tend to reflect how those running the company prioritise the ‘brand’." Davis & Baldwin 195 Photoshop is a big value because it will benefit me in my portfolio because I never know who will be viewing my portfolio. Photoshop helps m to correct simple mistakes and make certain edits.

Final: Statement Of Your Specialty

The statement of my specialty would be fashion sketching. Fashion sketching can be easy for some but it can also be hard for others.  For me fashion sketching came easy because of the professor who taught me how to do the sketching. He was able to break down the steps and show me how to do the sketching an easy way. Sketching comes in hand because my professor told my class that there might be a situation where you might have to sit down where ever you are and visually sketch your appearance and sketching can help you at that time because what if you did not bring a camera. That is a way that fashion sketching can help you. "Some companies will plot their marketing mix on a simple graph to see if it overlaps either with a competitor or, more seriously, with one of their own products." Davis & Baldwin 160 Sketching is that way you see things in your perspective because others might see it differently but you might see it a different way than others. Fashion sketching consists of paper and something to draw with. An easy way to do some fashion sketching is to get some tracing paper and simply do some tracing for practice. "Brand experience is how the audience reacts to a brand at any contact point, and it is the basis of consumer dialogue with the brand." Davis & Baldwin 162Practice does make perfect. A situation where fashion sketching might be useful for me would be if my designer is thinking of something and needs to have a quick sketch done for them.

Final: Top 5 Talents

My top 5 talents are making people laugh in stressful situations, getting a job in the area that I currently live in, being able to keep a job for a long period of time, being able to read and write, I am able to know how to do fashion sketches and use Photoshop. Those talents come in hand because in order to get a good job you need to have certain talents. When it comes to reading, as a stylist you need to know how to read what your head stylist is trying to get at you and sometimes that doesn't need to be visually read but more mentally. "Many businesses are happy to sell known products to people they already do business with, and there are examples of companies who have essentially done this for hundreds of years..." -Davis & Baldwin 127 Fashion sketching can important to me because you never know when you’ll need it, and you might need to sketch something real quick to show to your designer and your designer might interpret your sketch into their collection. Photoshop comes in hand because you never know if one day you might need to edit an image for your designer if it is specifically needed. "Brands like to know what is popular to help them plan their direction." -Davis & Baldwin 128 In Photoshop you need to know how to use certain controls to do certain edits. Certain edits can make images look a certain way. Also certain edits can help to bring out colors in photos. In photos enhancing colors can make clothing appear a certain way, or models looks look a certain way as well.