Fashion Accessories Design

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.

Aki Choklat, chair of College for Creative Studies-Fashion Accessories Design program, was on FOX 2 Detroit last Friday showing off the work of his students and promoting the department's first trunk show, which was this past Saturday at the Detroit Clothing Circle.

In an effort to both collaborate with Detroit fashion retailers and to raise funds for an upcoming international trip, the College for Creative Studies’ (CCS) Fashion Accessories Design students will exhibit and sell their handcrafted leather accessories at the Detroit Clothing Circle in Midtown, Detroit, on May 5, 2018.

Danialle and Peter Karmanos, Jr., philanthropists and metro Detroit community leaders are donating one million dollars to the College for Creative Studies (CCS) to support an endowment for its growing Fashion Accessories Design (FAD) program and aid in student scholarships.

Fewer than a half dozen schools in the United States focus on accessories design and only one in the Midwest: College for Creative Studies.