School of Fashion Design
School of Fashion Design
Fashion Design
Highly career-oriented, this program aims to encourage and prepare students to embrace their style to create their own voice in the vibrant Southern California fashion industry and its many professional opportunities in the field. Our projects and activities mimic a range of careers in fashion design and merchandising - from creating ready-to-wear apparel, costumes, and/or high-end design, to manufacturing, retail, and marketing - in order for students to have industry-based, practical, and hands-on experiences. This includes students’ participation in our yearly fashion show, where they play multiple roles –from creating, illustrating, pitching, and criticizing their design ideas, to producing the hair, makeup, styling, and modeling of their garments. The program also includes many students’ extracurricular activities, such as the promotion and organization of our school’s Halloween Costume Contest and controlling all administrative and operational aspects of the Pop-Up Thrift Store that fashion students manage on-site. Students complete the program with a capstone portfolio to be presented in their chosen academic programs and/or job interviews.
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Entrance Criteria
As in all the schools at Renaissance High School for the Arts, students need a driving passion within the school they choose. Regular attendance and scholarly behavior will increase each school's experience by the individual. RHSA is not a spectator school and demands students engage within the community to make a greater whole! At Renaissance, students learn and DO!
Fashion Design at RHSA
Sample Schedule
Our four-year listed strand is designed to reflect our learning community’s demand, academic requirements, and industry models to maximize students’ experiences in preparation for their next steps within the field. All our pathway courses listed follow the Long Beach School District Visual Arts as well as Career Technical Education guidelines and standards.
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Sample Schedule |
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Grade 9
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Grade 10
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Grade 11
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Grade 12
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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
– Coco Chanel
Work-Based Learning
- On Campus Thrift Store
- Annual Fashion Show
Industry Partners
- Long Beach City College & California State University at Long Beach (Fashion Departments)
- Los Angeles Trade Tech College
Meet the Director: Marina Vilhena
Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, I moved to California shortly after high school to continue my education and follow my dream to become an educator in the field of arts. After years of training and experience in the industry, it is my honor to be part of and contribute to our dynamic and diverse learning community at RHSA as a teacher of Visual Arts and Fashion Design.
For More Information
Contact Mrs. Vilhena at MVilhena@lbschools.net or (562) 901-0168
Nondiscrimination Statement: The Long Beach Unified School District prohibits unlawful discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying, targeted at any student or employee by anyone, based on the student or employees actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy and related conditions, parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
For questions or complaints, contact Equity Compliance Officer: Steve Rockenbach, Director of Employee Relations and Ethics, 1515 Hughes Way, Long Beach, CA 90815, 562-997-8220, srockenbach@lbschools.net and Title IX Coordinator: Kimberly Dalton, Director of Human Resource Services, 1515 Hughes Way, Long Beach, CA 90815, 562-997-8108, kdalton@lbschools.net and 504 Coordinator: Jenny R. Acosta, Program Administrator, 2221 Argonne Ave, LB 90815, 562-986-6870, JRAcosta@lbschools.net.