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Summer Style
Petit Panache Fashion Camp
Petit Panache Fashion camP, to
be held on Saturdays in May and Monday
through Thursday starting June 13, is a
collaboration of designers, instructors and
professional seamstresses who will be teaching
courses on pattern making, draping, fashion sketching,
sewing and many other classes dealing with fashion.
Teachers will be instructors from various universities as
well as nationally recognized fashion designers from New
York, Los Angeles and other parts of the country. The camp
has gleaned support from fashion editors from The New York
Times, TheWashington Post and Vogue. Guest designers will
travel to Charleston to meet with students, and students will
travel to design showrooms, fabric houses and retailers to
learn about what’s trending and to meet models.
Founder Ann Cooper currently designs eight collections
of women’s and children’s apparel, with showrooms in New
York, Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. Her collections have
been sold to Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf
Goodman and Nordstrom, as well as more than 500 other
stores in the United States and Europe.
“For a long time, I have wanted to offer girls the
opportunity to learn more about fashion, sewing and more
and to empower them to create projects that they can wear,”
said Cooper. “I hope the camp and classes will help build
self-confidence and awareness of their personal skills. I feel
girls today are very attentive to what they wear and how they
accessorize their outfits. The ability to sew their own outfits
gives them their own ‘fashionista’ look. At the end of the
camp, the students will put on their own runway show and
model the garments that they made in the camps.”
Classes will be offered in Mount Pleasant, Charleston and
West Ashley.
For more information, visit ,
email or call 843-670-9903.
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