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April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising will pay homage with a presentation on April 14 at the design school’s Irvine campus by Kevin Jones, FIDM Museum curator and fashion and Titanic historian.

The top-three dresses on the runway at FIDM (Brandon Clark/abimages)

Last summer, Los Angeles designer Karen Kane issued a challenge to students in the third-year advanced fashion design course at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

 
Kevin Jones discussing the Oscar-winning costumes from "The Artist"

I was fortunate enough to snag an invitation to a breakfast and private museum tour hosted by the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising for members of the international diplomatic corps.

The group was visiting Los Angeles on the Obama Administration’s latest Experience America tour, which included more than 50 Ambassadors and their spouses.

If you’ve driven along Olympic Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles recently, you may have spotted the giant Bella Dahl billboard above the entrance to the Packard Lofts building across from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. There is a second billboard on the other side of the building, as well (pictured below).

"Alice in Wonderland" costumes by Colleen Atwood won the Oscar in 2011, photos courtesy of FIDM

Mae West’s custom-made platform shoes

The Museum & Galleries at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising has spent the last 10 years amassing an impressive collection of iconic fashion—and with the opening of its latest exhibition, titled, appropriately enough, Fabulous!, museum visitors can take a look

Fashion designer, “Project Runway” alumn, fashion pundit, FIDM instructor—and ApparelNews guest blogger—Nick Verreos is getting a weekly TV show on the Style Network.

The half-hour show will “tackle anything and everything that’s of interest to Style viewers,” according to a release from E! Entertainment Television’s sister cable network.

Mo'Nique in Tadashi Shoji

It’s Oscar season and we, at Apparel News, congratulate all those who were nominated for awards today. But let’s face it, for us, it’s all about the clothes—especially when they’re designed by Los Angeles designers.

Oscar winning costumes for 2010 designed by Sandy Powell for "The Young Victoria." 

With the box office race heating up over the holidays and the Golden Globes just around the corner, the stage is set in Hollywood for a glamorous award season. So, who will win the Oscar for best costume design?

Students were asked to draw inspiration from this 1872 gown

Students at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising have a great tool to help them learn fashion and costume design.