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Future Fashion Designers Get Some Practice at Mineola Library

Glitter, ribbon and plenty of fashion fill library as young designers show off talent.

Last week a group of eager young girls gathered at the ready to participate in an event that would showcase their talent for fashion design.

Each of the students was required to bring their own clothing, accessories, or any other piece of fashion that they wished to embellish, modify, or completely remake into something new.

The group was provided with rhinestones, ribbon, glue, fabric markers, needles and thread and just about anything else that would require a young creative mind to turn an ordinary garment of their own into something completely unique.

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Over the course of the next three hours, former fashion designer Carla Imbriano helped and handed out suggestions on the best way to turn their t-shirt into a handbag or bedazzle an ordinary pair of jeans.

Currently a professor at LIM, a college in New York City that focuses on design, Imbriano, teaches a variety of courses that range in topics throughout the fashion industry, but she also enjoys making the transition to teaching students below the college level all about fashion and why she is so passionate about the subject.

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“When I teach kids, anything I do, they grasp it so easily, which is cool,” she said, indicating the type of behavior that she picks up on while instructing a room full of young designers-to-be.

For Imbriano, events like those at the Mineola Library are important because “when children can express themselves through art, it’s good to give them a chance to be creative, and wonderful things can come of it.”

This is the first time that Imbriano has visited the Mineola Library, but she says that hopefully she will be returning with a similar workshop in the future.

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