Letter from a Reader: Shortchanging Fashionista

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Dear Fashion Pulis,

I just want to let you know about this deceiving practice at a Fashion and Design School FS. The head of FS, who is a professional designer, had been doing this for a long time now. If you happen to call FS to inquire about their teaching staff, be prepared to be shocked by the names that you will hear – they are mostly beginners. The faculty is composed of their students who have just recently graduated in 2010 to 2012 with no proper training at all. At FS, there are only two names who are at most, familiar.

We all know how expensive it is to be educated in a fashion design school. The tuition and the materials alone will cost you an arm and a leg. Isn’t it but right that the school be armed with teachers with relevant skills and competency, along with pertinent experience to speak of – and not fresh graduates whose only qualification is their knowledge lifted from their textbooks? The backbone of any school rests in the quality of its teaching force which is the benchmark how your school will be judged.

This is very alarming.

And may I add that the teaching staff who handles the graduating students in creating their respective collections, to my knowledge is someone who only had done one collection showcase to his name – and that was his graduation collection in 2011! What right and credentials does he have to teach?

FP, I hope that your blog can help address this. I absolutely detest this system - this malpractice. FS had graduated not a few designers who are now well-known and respected in the industry, both local and international. It makes me cringe at the possibility of FS graduating lemons if this present system is not properly and seriously addressed – and in the process, damaging the good reputation of the school.

Thank you very much, Fashion PULIS.

From a Concerned FS Alumna

Note: Letter edited for brevity

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