Trend know-how teacher Maria Razzauti and pupil Meghan Reny engaged on Reny's upcycled kimono garment within the UH Maui School Trend Expertise Lab earlier than their journey to Japan. Courtesy of UH Maui School
When you’ve got ever considered enhancing your stitching abilities at residence to strive your luck within the trend enterprise, we might help.
Our Trend Tech Lab is present process an in depth rework, anticipated to be accomplished by the Fall 2025 semester. (It stays totally operational throughout the improve.) The lab is being up to date with new paint, new studying and chopping tables, new ironing stations, and a brand new stock of residence stitching and overlock machines for each our common Trend Tech credit score program and our low-cost, non-credit courses. .
Courses in material stitching and trend illustration can be found for spring 2025. A variety of non-credit courses are additionally provided, from floor design in patterns and textiles, grownup starting stitching, embroidery and darning, crochet, alteration of clothes, and the very fashionable Introduction to Swimsuits and Swimsuits II.
Even if you happen to're not keen to get into the style enterprise, taking a category or two may lead you on a global journey, because it did for 3 of our Trend Tech college students final month.
Brielle Pacli-Donato, Meghan Reny, and Aliza Clarke together with UHMC Trend Expertise Teacher Maria Razzauti traveled to Japan to take part within the Blue Inexperienced Artwork Undertaking. The challenge is sponsored by Yamaguchi Prefectural College, which has been a “sister college” with UHMC since 2017 and the place trend design is a spotlight. It was thrilling for our college students to hitch such iconic and international trend companions as Marimekko from Finland.
Kimono clothes upcycled by UH Maui School Trend Tech college students Meghan Reny, Aliza Clarke and Brielle Pacli-Donato. Courtesy of UH Maui School
Professor Emerita Yumiko Mizutani, former director of YPU's trend program, organized the occasion, whose principal purpose was to showcase recycled clothes constituted of outdated kimonos that she personally donated. “College students signed up for my clothes recycling class final spring.” explains Razzauti. “So the timing was excellent for them to use what they discovered and likewise be taught extra stitching abilities wanted to recycle kimonos.”
The inspiration for every pupil's design was private and evocative of Maui. Meghan Reny “The moon Hōkū and its waters” was created to honor “The fantastic thing about the moon and the waters of Hawai'i, how the connection between the moon, land and water provides us life and the way it’s our kuleana to guard this deep relationship.” she explains.
She hand-stitched opal beads into the liner of a recycled wedding ceremony gown to symbolize the luminescence of the total moon. The skirt, which is the dear historical material of the kimono, represents water.
“I honor the sacredness of Haleakalā and the enduring bond between the land, the solar and the Hawaiian individuals.” says Aliza Clarke. He used purple striped kimono material to symbolize “The layers of lava that formed its ridges and valleys, a testomony to geological forces over tens of millions of years.” The highest a part of his shiny yellow garment. “It symbolizes Ka Lā (the solar), supply of sunshine and renewal. Watching the dawn at Haleakalā fosters a deep respect for the land and a connection to the ancestors.”
Sugar cane served as inspiration for Brielle Pacli-Donato. “Who’s it.”
UH Maui School Trend Tech college students Brielle Pacli-Donato, Aliza Clarke and Meghan Reny of their upcycled kimono clothes. Courtesy of UH Maui School
“The white and peach recycled Furisode displays Maui's official pink colour. The purple michiyuki and blue textured organza symbolize water from the irrigation furrows created by employees, and items of the michiyuki additionally movement alongside the facet of the gown.” she explains. “On the backside, inexperienced organza was minimize and sewn to mimic sugar cane.”
This journey was far more than trend.
“Japan had at all times been a rustic I needed to go to,” says Pacli-Donato. “There have been so many unimaginable reminiscences. From our first expertise doing the kimono tea ceremony, attending an indigo dyeing workshop, lengthy walks by the totally different cities of Tokyo, visiting Bunka School in addition to Yamaguchi College and extra.”
For teacher Maria Razzauti it was a nostalgic journey. “Seven years in the past, as a UHMC pupil, I had the chance to take part in an identical occasion with YPU.” she says. “I nonetheless keep in mind the thrill of being chosen to symbolize the college, so I do know firsthand what which means to the scholars. Touring to a gorgeous nation like Japan to showcase one's work as a pupil is a once-in-a-lifetime alternative. It was a full circle second for me to assist make this occur. A very inspiring turning level second that will likely be cherished endlessly.”
For details about the Trend Expertise credit score program, go to catalog.maui.hawaii.edu/fashion-technology/fashion-technology-asc For details about non-credit Trend Expertise courses, contact Charlene cquanp @hawaii.edu For full details about UH Maui College, go to maui.hawaii.edu/.
UH Maui School trend know-how college students Aliza Clarke, Brielle Pacli-Donato and Meghan Reny, and trend know-how teacher Maria Razzauti in Japan. Courtesy of UH Maui School
UH Maui School Trend Tech college students Brielle Pacli-Donato, Meghan Reny and Aliza Clarke at a tea ceremony in Japan. Courtesy of UH Maui School
UH Maui School trend know-how teacher Maria Razzauti with college students Aliza Clarke, Brielle Pacli-Donato and Meghan Reny expertise the artwork of aizome (indigo dyeing) in Japan. Courtesy of UH Maui School
UH Maui School Trend Tech college students Aliza Clarke, Brielle Pacli-Donato and Meghan Reny present some college satisfaction in Japan. Courtesy of UH Maui School