Comfortable airy rubber kilt with a touch of Roman influences, made from used bicycle innertubes. You can wear it on your bare skin, over a string, but also over a nice dress, pants or fabric skirt.
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening ."
~ Coco Chanel
In fashion, you must be unique. The Academy's School of Fashion combines European artisanship with New York industry savvy, California freshness with modern American technology. You'll experience a curriculum designed like no other. This one-of-a-kind learning opportunity at the best fashion school in the country is enhanced by a strong faculty influenced by the distinctive St. Martin's touch.
You'll learn fashion design basics and develop your own fashion career with designers and merchandisers from fashion houses like Versace, Calvin Klein, Givenchy, Claude Montana, and Alexander McQueen.
Success in the world of fashion depends on a strong sense of style and an unerring feel for design. These are not innate abilities programmed into the genes at birth; they must be learned, and they must be lived.
In response to the need for experts in the fast growing beauty industry at retail and product development levels, the School of Fashion is proud to announce new courses in the "Business of Beauty". From the history of the beauty industry to current merchandising tactics, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the cosmetics and fragrance business.
Sanyo Electric Co. recently put on sale a washing machine that doesn't require detergent to clean lightly soiled clothes. The machine is fitted with electrodes on the side of the tub that electrolyze the water, and an ultrasonic wave generator at the base of the machine. The ultrasonic waves, which are essentially millions of tiny air bubbles, help loosen grime and grit on clothes in a purely mechanical action.
Electrolyzing the water produces active oxygen, or forms of oxygen such as hydrogen peroxide and ozone, and hypochlorous acid, a mild bleaching agent. Hypochlorous acid kills bacteria while active oxygen dissolves such dirt as the residue of body sweat. Sanyo claims this is enough for cleaning shirts, underwear, and towels soiled primarily by perspiration. Detergent can be used in the machine to clean clothes heavily stained with dirt or grease.
Sanyo claims users can halve the cost of doing normal laundry. Reducing the amount of detergent sent into waste water streams is also environmentally friendly. Currently, the 8kg load capacity washer is only available in Japan.
Rather than applying ultrasound waves on the entire wash, Sharp Corp. chose to use the technology in a spot washer intended to remove rings of dirt from collars and other stains. The Sharp washer features a small ultrasound generator that mounts in an arm positioned over a tray above the washer tub. Users position the stained part of the fabric between the washing head on the arm and a small trough on the tray, something like positioning fabric under a sewing machine needle.
With the trough filled with water, the fabric is saturated. The washer head oscillates up and down 34,000 times per second. On the downstroke, water molecules are pushed away; on the upstroke, cavitation results in cavities in the water. As these cavities combine and explode within the fabric fiber, stain-causing particles are blown away. After treating the stains, the garment is washed normally. The ultrasound arm and tray can be folded away.
"This same principle has been used in washing machines for commercial laundries and for jewelers," says Kazuo Tajima, general manager of engineering for laundry systems for Sharp.
Like Sanyo, the company currently has no plans to offer the 8 kg capacity machine outside Japan.
