Build your portfolio & learn to sew from a pro! PROJECT RUNWAY fashion designer PAMELA PTAK
Top Comic Artist Scott Hanna on Fine Art figure drawing & anatomy Painter & Pastel Artist Annette Hanna on Portraiture & Plein Air Painting Fashion Designer Annina King on Accessories Design & 3D flowers Leather Techniques by PROJECT RUNWAY celebrity designer Stella Zotis and Sculpting techniques by award winning costumer Danielle LaFleur
Beginner, Advanced & Graduate classes since 2003
draping and design studios at the Arts and Fashion Institute™
• 4 TEEN SUMMER CLASSES & 8 FASHION CAMPS START IN JUNE! :D
student draping exercise
• TEEN FASHION PORTFOLIO PREP Pamela's prepped hundreds of HS & college age students from PA, NJ
& DE to enter major fashion colleges with ease! Just ask her former
students now at FIT & Parsons in NYC, AIP in Philly & FIDM in
LA!
• • • FREE Fashion Portfolio review at Steel Stacks Farmers Market Bethlehem Look for Pamela Ptak's pink tent - Thursday 3:30-4:30pm, May 10th - July 26th!
fashion student setting & sewing flounces at Pamela Ptak's Studios
• TEEN SEWING Take your sewing skills to the next level before
heading off to fashion college! Pamela's raised the skill &
understanding in hundreds of fashion students & she can help
you too!
• • • FREE Couture Fashion Crafting at Steel Stacks
Farmers Market, Bethlehem Look for Pamela's pink tent - Thurs May 17 & 24, June 7, 14 & 21, July 5, 12 & 19!
• • • Teachers - contact me for information on my regional school visits to speak to and inspire your classes!
• • • Girl Scout Leaders - I give annual FREE workshops at my studio to assist with projects for sewing badges!
Please call Pamela Ptak at 610-346-6071 for more information.
• SEWING FOR KIDS Have fun learning about your sewing machine, sewing patterns, hand sewing and more. This introduction will make parent & child excited to try sewing & comfortable with the tools & machinery. For parent plus child age 8-12.
• SEW CREATIVE™ The Sew Creative class focuses on adding unique creative touches to your garments. The FUN way to enjoy your sewing & awaken your
own creativity while you get the perfect fit you've always wanted & improve your
skills! Pamela makes it her mission to increase your confidence and
teach you techniques to raise your creativity and boost your
skills.
silk taffetta gown accented with garnet strands over upper arms
• FIT TO PERFECTION™ For creative sewers who enjoy commercial patterns but want to focus on getting a perfect fit. Working on a garment from your preferred pattern brand, learn how to properly adjust a "fit muslin", transfer the changes to paper patterns and dive into a garment of your choice confident that your results will be spectacular! This class features fit while you design & sew in a fun & relaxed environment.
adjusted custom patterns
• SEW TO PERFECTION™ For creative sewers who like commercial patterns but want to start using the finest haute couture techniques! Sew to Perfection™ focuses on starting to raise your sewing & finishing skills to haute couture levels while you sew a garment from a commercial pattern of your choice. You'll make "fit muslins" to evaluate and adjust the fit, proportions and style& learn haute couture steps including organza interlinings, French seams, Hong Kong bindings, and more.
silk charmeuse skirt with ruffles on tulle & hand set silk organza flowers
• CUSTOM DESIGN, DRAPING & PATTERN MAKING Draping & pattern making are great fun, but not if the clothes don't fit!! Pamela Ptak is a master at developing custom dress forms, custom sloper sets to perfectly match your curves. Once she helps you get a set that's perfect, she'll teach you how to use it to start designing original garments!
example of free-draping in muslin
example of draping in miniature
• TRUE HAUTE COUTURE™ INSTRUCTION
Learn PARIS Haute Couture & NYC industry techniques from Pamela Ptak, who's designed & sewn collections for NYC Fashion Week & sewn/embellished garments for the Paris Haute Couture.
If you're a fashion design professional looking to re-inspire your career, a fashion student with an eye on the challenging collections of the haute couture or a sewing/fashion enthusiast looking to raise your draping/sewing skills to the highest level, welcome to the world of Camp Couture™!
Camp Couture™ at the Arts & Fashion Institute™ is located in the Gryphon Saint Catchpole art studios at 595 Summit Lane, Riegelsville, PA in Upper Bucks County PA near the Delaware Valley & Lehigh Valley area. For those in northeast USA, Camp Couture™ is just over an hours drive from NYC & Philadelphia. Special class requests are welcome! And contact me with questions or requests about specialized programs for your college, school or group. I'm more than happy to oblige! :D
And If
you're looking for fashion inspiration, contact me about trunk shows
& exhibits of my personal vintage & current fashion collection
by international designers Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Junya
Watanabe, Comme des Garcons, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Chado Ralph Rucci,
Carolina Herrera, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Valentino, Ann
Demeulemeester, Olivier Theyskens, Byron Lars, Matthew Williamson,
Betsey Johnson, Lilly Pulitzer, Moschino, Claude Montana, Thierry
Mugler, and many more. For information on the most recent exhibit, see
my blog at WWW.STRIVE2INSPIRE.COM
