NEW RECRUITS: City Outfitters Inc. and Drexel College’s Antoinette Westphal Faculty of Media Arts & Design welcomed the primary spherical of individuals within the Urbn x Drexel: Made to Measure Apprenticeship program.
To make the lower for the two-year program, the six college students who had been chosen needed to get previous a evaluation course of that was led by staffers at Urbn and Drexel, in addition to school members on the Philadelphia faculty. That required a video interview, a artistic venture and a design portfolio. Urbn is choosing up the tab for every of the scholars’ tuition and room and board by way of a grant to the college, which was created to spare college students any prices.
The inaugural class is made up of Alexandra Belmonte, Eden Miller, Layla Ortiz, Merter Sezer, Luke Wallace and Donald Whorley.
Drexel is among the many secondary faculties and universities which are working to create extra skilled alternatives for his or her college students. Austin Neighborhood Faculty, the London Trend Academy, the California Faculty of the Arts and the Trend Institute of Design & Merchandising are additionally serving to undergrads put together to carve a path within the vogue trade via such means as brand-financed scholarships, incubators and customized curriculum.
Whereas most school college students are nonetheless having fun with the ides of summer season, the six individuals obtained a soar on their apprenticeships this week. The custom-made curriculum blends vogue design programs at Drexel with mentorship and on-the-job coaching at Urbn. At the start winds down, college students could have taken such programs as development abilities, vogue drawing, and patternmaking at Drexel and they’re going to have labored inside Urbn’s design and manufacturing and sourcing groups.
Revealing the launch, Urbn’s chief individuals officer Matt Strode stated, “We’re dedicated to breaking down conventional obstacles to entry within the vogue trade, and made to measure helps us notice that imaginative and prescient.”
Upon completion, apprentices will earn 70 transferable course credit and stackable certificates from Drexel College. One other main perk is a suggestion for continued employment at URBN.