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Fashion Career Kickstarter for Aspiring Young Creatives

Launching this summer as the fashion career kickstarter for aspiring teen and tween creatives, Fashion Ko-Lab exposes and informs on the varied segments of the fashion business landscape. Through the guided, week-long intensive courses, students gain genuine business insight and equip themselves with the tools they require to plot a course and navigate their own fashion career success.

A Week-Long Fashion Camp Becomes The First & Strongest Step Towards a Successful Career in Fashion

Launching this summer as the fashion career kickstarter for aspiring teen and tween creatives, Fashion Ko-Lab exposes and informs on the varied segments of the fashion business landscape. Through the guided, week-long intensive courses, students gain genuine business insight and equip themselves with the tools they require to plot a course and navigate their own fashion career success.

With three camps in New York City and two in Los Angeles through summer 2015, Fashion Ko-lab positions itself in North America’s two great fashion capitals. Course content ranges from a detailed exploration of key industry roles that identify those best suited to each participant’s goals, to a detailed study of the design and development process, to personal and professional promotional avenues that create momentum and inertia for business success. This comprehensive curriculum is reinforced by inspiring field trips to fashion houses and production facilities. Empowered with the knowledge, skills and connections to facilitate their career ambition, the participating young innovators are mentored to emerge with their own personal projects ready to execute.

Created by Liza Deyrmenjian, founder of Fashion Business Accelerator 360 (FBA360), the Fashion Ko-Lab camps provide a unique and extensive insight into the world of fashion. Through FBA360, brands leverage a multi-platform learning experience that offers full access to the industry’s most established experts to overhaul and maximize their fashion business. In the same way, Fashion Ko-Lab creates a learning structure that brings together the fundamentals of fashion professions and the hottest designers and fashion insiders.

As a fashion business consultant, Deyrmenjian has advised leading brands such as Marmot, Westbeach, Umbro and Rochelle Behrens’ The Shirt. In 2014, Deyrmenjian’s education and mentoring of 13-year-old Isabella Rose Taylor saw the development of this young designer’s first collection arriving on the Nordstrom sales floor and receiving unanimous media and public acclaim.

"Under Liza’s guidance I learned the entire process of creating a product and bringing it to market – from blocks to sourcing fabrics, finding models and creating samples,” says Isabella Rose Taylor. “This is a process that would have taken years to learn, and decades to refine.”

Today’s teens and tweens are the most connected, educated and sophisticated generation in history, and are also the most driven; for many their vision is clear and their ambition certain. Yet these qualities are only maximized with the invaluable guidance of a competent and experienced mentorship program. That program is Fashion Ko-Lab.

 

New York City

Los Angeles

June29–July3
July 6 – July 10
July 13 – July 17 (Advanced Week)

July 27 – July 31 August 3 – August 7

For more visit information visit www.FashionKo-Lab.com. 

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Introducing: Blunt Umbrellas

The team at Blunt abhor the idea that umbrellas are at the forefront of the throwaway culture. Their quest is to change the consumers acceptance of built-in obsolescence and shoddy workmanship one BLUNT umbrella at a time.

The team at Blunt abhor the idea that umbrellas are at the forefront of the throwaway culture. Their quest is to change the consumers acceptance of built-in obsolescence and shoddy workmanship one BLUNT umbrella at a time. These umbrellas are the result of merging a truly revolutionary design with the values of quality workmanship and painstaking material selection. Combine this with a mad scientist testing regime, they have created an umbrella we are super proud to hand on to you. Putting it bluntly, BLUNT umbrellas are the single most significant advancement in umbrella design, in over a century... or even longer. Who really knows how long, but they are without doubt, the world's best umbrellas – designed by New Zealand.

 

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Fashion Career Kickstarter

Launching this summer as the fashion career kickstarter for aspiring teen and tween creatives, Fashion Ko-Lab exposes and informs on the varied segments of the fashion business landscape. Through the guided, week-long intensive courses, students gain genuine business insight and equip themselves with the tools they require to plot a course and navigate their own fashion career success.

Fashion Career Kickstarter
Fashion Career Kickstarter
Fashion Career Kickstarter
Fashion Career Kickstarter
Fashion Career Kickstarter
Fashion Career Kickstarter
Fashion Career Kickstarter
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LE BOOK: New York 2015

Beginning as a highly-collectible and highly-designed reference book, LEBOOK was a limited edition guide to the creative community in Paris. Invented by Veronique Kolasa in 1982, as a private resource for her best creative friends, LEBOOK quickly became “The Bible of the Image Industries.”

Le Book

Created by Veronique Kolasa in 1982 as a private resource for her best creative friends, LEBOOK quickly became “The Bible of the Image Industries.”

As a highly-collectible and highly-designed reference book for information, inspiration & insight into the exclusive world of high-end advertising, editorial and experiential communications, LEBOOK is the go-to reference and international resource for the creative community.

VOCAL is proud to be leading the amplification of the much-anticipated NEW YORK 2015 edition – featuring the photography of MARIPOL curated by DIPLO – creating an aligned voice for the international creative industries.

As part of the release, DIPLO curated a custom playlist available on Spotify here.

Download the PDF version here. 

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Introducing: Aimé Leon Dore

Created in 2014, Aimé Leon Dore is a fashion and lifestyle brand based out of New York City. With a strong focus on simple yet powerful design, they are driven to create timeless work by portraying an aesthetic that is uniquely their own.

Created in 2014, Aimé Leon Dore is a fashion and lifestyle brand based out of New York City. With a strong focus on simple yet powerful design, they are driven to create timeless work by portraying an aesthetic that is uniquely their own.

For their third collection release entitled 0214 New York – inspired by the New York that was and the New York that is – VOCAL supported Aimé Leon Dore's exclusive pop-up store cocktail launch. The collection consisted of fourteen exclusive pieces including outerwear, shirting, jeans, trousers, sweats and accessories, all of which are handcrafted in New York's historic Garment District. Previously only available through their online platform, New York City media, press and friendshad the unique opportunity to experience the full collection merchandised within a retail space.

 

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Kinfolk AW16: Good Times International

As the creators of thoughtfully elegant lifestyle and product experiences, Kinfolk has announces the coming release of their Autumn/ Winter 2016 apparel collection. Melding a range of casual outerwear and knitwear along with iconic formal pieces, the Good Times International collection incorporates two capsule collaborations with La Paz and Cockpit USA for an unexpected contrast of styles that find harmony in astute design. 

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As the creators of thoughtfully elegant lifestyle and product experiences, Kinfolk has announces the coming release of their Autumn/ Winter 2016 apparel collection. Melding a range of casual outerwear and knitwear along with iconic formal pieces, the Good Times International collection incorporates two capsule collaborations with La Paz and Cockpit USA for an unexpected contrast of styles that find harmony in astute design. 

Kinfolk’s Good Times International release for AW16 draws inspiration from the terrifying and gritty play land of 1970’s New York, celebrating the fever pitch of culture and expression that would define the city’s future. The collection utilizes a muted yet crisp color palate that stays very true to New York classic fall imageries, creating a cohesive and functional range of garments that can be dressed both up and down. Key pieces fronting the collection include: the B10 Bomber jacket, a classic reenvisioned for today’s smart dresser; the Aspen Fleece, a hybrid item inspired by an oversize rugby shirt and the classic Patagonia pullover; and the Baltimore four-pocket jacket, inspired by a vintage military piece found during the design process, and is the perfect mix of a CPO military overshirt and a cotton coach jacket. The Kinfolk FW16 collection marks a come back to classic American sportswear that blends perfectly with the 70’s New York storyline. 

Born in 2008 as a collective from New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo, Kinfolk initiatives grow from the range of locations the brand has established: the communal design studio in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, Kinfolk 90; their culinary and cocktail nightspot in Tokyo, Kinfolk Lounge; the bar and cocktail club that has grown into a multiuse creative space, Kinfolk 94; and, of course, The Kinfolk Store that has become one of the New York City’s most notable menswear boutiques.  Kinfolk apparel is available at their flagship storefront at 94 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY, as well as American Rag in LA and select retailers in Tokyo and London.

 

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Project Cobalt's SS15 Collection

Project Cobalt Inspired by a cool spring day in Brooklyn, Project Cobalt’s inaugural collection was conceived and created by an eclectic group of New York designers who are part of the Craft Class team: Olu Alege and Edgar Garrido of Street Level Culture; Alexandra Kennedy, Samantha Giordano of Dolores Haze; and Drew Villani of Dreu. Though hailing from a range of background but finding unity in a common ethos: beautifully simple clothing inspired by traditional silhouettes employing modern details and trims. The intent was to present Project Cobalt's SS15 Collection as androgynous and versatile; the perfect unisex collection drawn from a deep consideration of fashion, form and function.

Project Cobalt Inspired by a cool spring day in Brooklyn, Project Cobalt’s inaugural collection was conceived and created by an eclectic group of New York designers who are part of the Craft Class team: Olu Alege and Edgar Garrido of Street Level Culture; Alexandra Kennedy, Samantha Giordano of Dolores Haze; and Drew Villani of Dreu. Though hailing from a range of background but finding unity in a common ethos: beautifully simple clothing inspired by traditional silhouettes employing modern details and trims. The intent was to present Project Cobalt's SS15 Collection as androgynous and versatile; the perfect unisex collection drawn from a deep consideration of fashion, form and function.

Subtle and refined yet bold and confident, Project Cobalt’s first season is original – remarkably on trend while following no trends. Standout outerwear classics like the topcoat and bomber jacket have been reinvented and brought to life by lighter spring fabrics and a washed-out tonal color palette. Wardrobe staples such as the dress short encourage a new respect and inspired style for basics, constructed from a light-weight worsted wool blend that allows the slight detailing of measured cuff and extended rear-pocket tab closure to create sophistication in simplicity.

VOCAL undertook the development of all supporting and amplification materials to introduce Project Cobalt's SS15 Collection, build brand noise and drive ecommerce traffic. The initial offline experience for key influencers, media and bloggers was an exclusive launch party at the newoned Reed Space in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

 

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TINY EMPIRE Juice Cleanse

Modern life takes its toll on the body and the mind. But thereʼs no reason to stop burning the candle at both ends; at least, not entirely. A short remedial cleanse is enough to put a bounce back in your step and a smile back on your face. Tailored to the most common ailments of todayʼs New Yorker, each Tiny Juice Cleanse of raw organic fruits, vegetables, boosters and herbal tinctures addresses a specific range of issues that energize the body and reinvigorate the mind.


A TINY CLEANSE 

Modern life takes its toll on the body and the mind. But thereʼs no reason to stop burning the candle at both ends; at least, not entirely. A short remedial cleanse is enough to put a bounce back in your step and a smile back on your face. Tailored to the most common ailments of todayʼs New Yorker, each Tiny Juice Cleanse of raw organic fruits, vegetables, boosters and herbal tinctures addresses a specific range of issues that energize the body and reinvigorate the mind.

 

TINY HOUSEKEEPER (cleanse #1)

Itʼs all too easy to allow the good intentions to remain just that while grabbing a slice on your way to evening drinks, only to sleep through the alarm and skip your morning run. Make your good intentions positive actions with the Tiny Housekeeper cleanse, cleansing the way for more productive days ahead.

Intensity:              Beginner

Intention:              Rest, Restore, Revive

Price:                   $61

Daily Program:     Aloe shot, Juice #1, Chia Oatmeal or Acai Bowl, Juice #2 or Juice #4, Kale Salad (two selections), Juice #5, Almond Milk (regular or spiced).

 

TINY OVERHAUL (cleanse #2)

As the original Tiny Empire juice cleanse, this one remains our personal favorite. Simple enough to manage within a hectic schedule, The Tiny Overhaul is a more intense cleanse to allow moderate detoxification while minimizing the side effects encountered with a deeper cleanse. For those confident in their commitment to a juice cleanse, but concerned about an ever-full inbox, the Tiny Overhaul is for you.

Intensity:              Intermediate

Intention:              Nourish, Energize, Invigorate

Price:                   $57

Daily Program:     Aloe Shot, Juice #1, Juice #2, Juice #3, Juice #4,Juice #5, Almond Milk (regular or spiced)

 

TINY EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (cleanse #3)

The tiny empire that is your body is governed by the nutrients and maintenance that you provide. As the more intense of the three Tiny Juice Cleanses, this program allows your digestive, immune and lymphatic systems to strike back against the effects of our synthetic world to achieve homeostatic harmony.

Intensity:              Advanced

Intention:              Detoxify, Heal, Balance

Price:                   $52

Daily Program:     Aloe Shot, Chlorella Shot (or possible shot choice - explain) Juice #2, Juice #3, Juice #4, Juice #11, Almond Milk (regular or spiced)

 

 

FOUNDATIONS & FUNCTIONS

Diet and nutrition is like everything else in life: you get out what you put in. An opportunistic diet based around processed foods and quick snacks not only deprives your body of essential nutrients, but far worse, introduces a range of synthetic and toxic substances that require proactive metabolic removal from your system. Over time, as intake exceeds your bodyʼs ability to keep the system clean, these substances accumulate and impede biological function. While the most common effects include fatigue and lethargy, more severely a prolonged poor diet can lead to chronic illness and disease.

 

A juice cleanse creates a healthier system in two ways. First, it restricts your personal diet to natural foods that provide your body with the vitamins, minerals and enzymes required for healthy function. Second, and of prime importance, this cleanse period gives your system some much-needed rest, allowing attention to be given to the processing and removal of toxins residing in muscles, tissues and organs. The result is a tuned machine that can better cleanse itself moving forward.

 

PROCESS & PREPARATION

As with a happy hour, a juice cleanse can have some next-day effects that arenʼt as originally intended. The cleansing of accumulated toxins causes a switch in metabolic process that prioritizes essential function over performance. Many people experience initial fatigue, reduced alertness, mild headaches or a decline in motivation. Although not common to everyone, your motivation is the resulting mental clarity, biological health, increases energy and glowing complexion.

To make your juice cleanse the success you expect, give some thought to the following.

 

Rope in a Friend

Not only will the personal support make the process easier, but everythingʼs more fun with your buddies.

 

Hit the Ground Running

Take a few days to get into a consistent routine while still in familiar territory. Better still, start a few days early with a focus on non-processed foods and beverages.

 

Make Your Excuses

Your body needs rest for optimum performance, and even more rest for reparation. Inform your gang that you wonʼt make it to that party next Wednesday.

 

Decaffeinate

Cutting out the coffee prior to starting your juice cleanse not only gives you a head start, but breaks that habit you will be refraining from during your cleanse days.

 

That Little Something

All good deeds deserve to go unpunished. Decide on a personal reward for your cleanse dedication, then go get it.

 

TINY TIPS

 

Liquid Life

Drinking at least half a gallon of water each day facilitates the removal of toxins through the bodyʼs natural waste systems. Add a freshly-squeezed lemon to flavor your water and give your immune system a boost.

 

Rest & Recover

A good nightʼs sleep does wonders for the body. Taking a break from exercise for the days of your juice cleanse will further allow your body to prioritize the recovery process of detoxifying.

 

Sweat it Out

Take advantage of that trial gym membership and hit the steam room. Sweat is another of bodyʼs waste elimination pathways and an ideal way to increase the rejuvenating effects of your juice cleanse.

 

Body Brush

The use of a dry body brush stimulates the circulation and increases the effectiveness of the lymphatic system. While dry brushing has the obvious effect of smoothing skin, it has also been shown to improve digestion and kidney function.

 

Ease Out

For the days following your juice cleanse, or for as long as possible, keep your diet centered around fresh fruits and raw salads, and avoid dairy products.

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