Fashion Accessories Design

Grace Liang, fashion blogger and social media influencer, attended CCS's first ever fashion symposium and was impressed with the student work, her time with fashion icon Anna Sui and so much more.

Each year, students at the College for Creative Studies look forward to securing internships with top employers around the country and the world. 2019 is no exception, as CCS faculty, facilities and resources give these young professionals a considerable advantage.

General Motors recently threw 'Be The Spark — Women Inspiring Innovation,' an event highlighting women in design. Five Detroit designers, including CCS alumna Veronika Scott and chair of Fashion Accessories Design Aki Choklat, spoke on values in design and the challenges of innovation at the GM Tech Center Design Dome in Warren in celebration of Women’s History Month.

Kayla Donaldson (Fashion Accessories Design, 2019) designs new Adidas Speedfactory x Foot Locker colorway, AM4DET

Fashion Accessories Design Chair Aki Choklat returned to his native Finland in November to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of his collaboration with Lahtiset.

Fashion Accessories Design Chair Aki Choklat attended planning meetings and helped coordinate a visit to Detroit for representatives from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). as part of the Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center (ISAIC) initiative to bring fashion manufacturing to the Metro Detroit area.

Fashion Accessories Design Chair Aki Choklat served as a judge at Graduate Fashion Week in London. Choklat also presented the Swarovski Sustainable Accessories Competition Award, which was announced during Graduate Fashion Week.

Brouhard teaches handbags and small leather goods in the Fashion Accessories Design (FAD) program. He is also a pattern and sample maker of fine leather goods for Shinola and a designer of his own rugged yet modern messenger bags, totes and duffels. They are all beautifully crafted and built to last — benefitting from his CCS education, a lifetime of sewing, as well as experience up and down the scale of production from the first cut to the finished product.

In late May and June 2018, 10 students from the College for Creative Studies Fashion Accessories Design (FAD) program ventured to London, UK, and Florence, Tuscany — home to some of the most iconic and enduring brands in the world — to absorb and learn about the fashion industries there.

Native Detroiter and renowned international designer Tracy Reese, plans to move her New York company's design operation to Midtown Detroit, hoping to tap into a pool of up-and-coming designers coming out of the CCS's Fashion Accessories Design program.