May 15th, 2013
Photography Faculty, Michael Daks Published in "As Seen in Blitz Magazine"
Michael Daks' work and an interview are included in a new book As Seen in BLITZ-Fashioning 80’s style by… read more
February 29th, 2012 10:30AM
With a lifetime of experience of fashion, in front of and behind the curtain, I am convinced that Paris is the heart of fashion education. No other place in the world has the diversity you find here – from Haute Couture to Ready-to-Wear to marketing-driven fashion. Drawing on this tremendous range, we will teach students what they can't get anywhere else – adaptability and excellence. Couture is excellence. I created a couture house and I will bring that excellence to the school. I also want to prepare students for the reality of working in fashion – it is not just champagne and sequins, its blood and tears!
The fashion industry is changing and to succeed students will need to be adaptable. The successful designer of the future will not only be aware of what is going on in fashion but also be open to the other art & design practices; the successful designer will be an engineer & an artist.
Fashion is proportion & emotion. Inspiration is unlimited, students have to have their eyes open to everything and really open their minds to the world – not just fashion and be aware of what people want and desire, not just in terms of marketing, but from their own sensibilities. Fashion is sociology – they have to listen to a lot of stories to transmit the current of society on the runway. For their work to succeed they have to process all that information and communicate it through their work – they can't just transmit what they like, they must tell their own stories through the work.
- Donald Potard, February 2012
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Donald Potard, new chair of the Fashion Design department of Paris College of Art, joins us after a distinguished career in industry, including 25 years with Jean-Paul Gaultier, (where he served as CEO until 2005), Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Emanuel Ungaro for Men. He was also President of the prêt-a-porter fashion designers union and member of the French Federation of Couture. In 2006, Donald founded the first artistic agency for fashion designers, Agent de Luxe, and will continue to run the agency alongside his commitment to education and growing our department.