Fashion Knitwear Design
Profiles on Alumni, Faculty, and Students
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Elana Koff
FIDM Fashion Knitwear Design Graduate
Associate Sweater Designer, Lucky Brand Jeans
Future goal?
To be a Head Designer.
What do you like most about your job?
Coming up with new sweater design ideas and then seeing them executed on someone who is wearing what I designed.
Why FIDM?
I chose FIDM because they had a hands-on program unlike any other in the entire country.
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Robin Wagner
FIDM Fashion Knitwear Instructor
"I have always designed clothing, even as a kid in Cleveland, Ohio," says popular instructor Robin Wagner. While living in New York City, she designed knitwear for many Seventh Avenue designers, including Calvin Klein, and made custom-tailored menswear at Aire Clothing. In Los Angeles, Robin has an exciting freelance career that includes designing cashmere for famed FIDM Graduate Kevan Hall.
I love the sense of community
at FIDM, which is so hard to pin
down in LA since we're spread
apart geographically."
What are you working on currently?
"I do design, product development, and sourcing for Windsor Stores as well as cashmere for Kevan Hall and other companies in L.A. I also have a surface design project in partnership with Tracey Rheinberg, a surface designer who has designed for Airbus and Knoll. It's top secret at the moment but very cool and different than anything else I am working on, and more interior related."
How do you apply what you've learned to teaching at FIDM?
"Everything I'm doing relates quite directly to the classes I teach. I share my hands-on sourcing experiences with my Production & Sourcing class. Knit trends from my customers come in handy for the Fashion Knitwear Design classes."
What is your favorite class project?
"My favorite design project is having the Textile Design majors tie and dye Shibori-dyed samples. The results are beautiful. The flip side of that is my Production & Sourcing Strategies class when the students source garment components and have live chats with Asian suppliers."
Robin is an Outstanding Faculty Award winner, an award given by the student body to outstanding faculty members.
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