Escuela de Artesanias
de las Filipinas ifashion Academy
ifashion stands for
International Fashion Academy for Specific Home-land Industries and On-line
Networks.
Esquina Calle General
Hughes and Zamora, Plaza Independencia, Iloilo Proper, Iloilo City, PhilippinesContact
Landline 033-321-0370 look for Jelaine Or Text 09189097362 PJ or 09093505640
Websites
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ESCUELA ARTESANIAS de las FILIPINAS iFashion School PJ
Arañador is the first international design-led crafts and artisanal fashion
school Iloilo City. Founded by PJ Arañador is a multi-awarded
international lifestyle designer and owner of the Nautilus PJ Arañador Design
Studio One. His body of works on design-led crafts spans across Asia, Africa,
South and North America, the Caribbean, India, Middle East, China, Australia
and Europe. He has been the curator of international fairs in Colombia, Peru
and India.
For more than 25 years,
PJ Arañador has served many communities around the world leveling up the
artisans through crafts livelihood. He advocates trade fair and ethical fashion
which are sustainable through mentorship
in product design, merchandise development, entrepreneurship and branding. He is the
youngest recipient of the Outstanding Professional Awards in Arts and Letters
from the University of the Philippines where he graduated. He was a faculty
member of La Salle College International School. He has been a trainor and
teacher for many private and government entities around the world. He has
mentored thousands of young students, artisans and entrepreneurs in his own
country alone. Foremost of his involvement is being one of the longest
consultants to the Department of Trade and Industry of the Philippines.
Arañador is a co-founder of the Fashion and Design Council
of the Philippines and member of the Society for Sustainable Tourism and
Development. He is also an international environmental design activist as
consultant for Go Green Philippines and
author of Project Zero. He is a developmental design mentor for Maarte
with the Museum Foundation of the
Philippines, Compete Philippines and Asia Foundation, owner of Nautilus brand
for resortwear and lifestyle crafts in
Boracay and Wawa,a heritage slow food restaurant.
ABOUT THE SHOOL.
The school core competency
is teaching design-led crafts specific to homeland industries. There are no
laboratories in the school, instead, the
students will do their lab works in the workshops and livelihood centers in the
communities, thereby, the students will work where the materials and artisans'
skills are. Each class are usually short terms in as short as half a day or three
weeks. The classes have small number of students in a inter-active around the
table format to allow better interaction and collaborations.
ifashion stands for
International Fashion Academy for Specific Home-land Industries and On-line
Networks. The school teaches crafts and design with provenance of the materials
and techniques. Refered to as endemic
design as well, the method of teaching it based on available local materials
and skills for it to be sustainable. It teaches ethical, green and socially
responsible fashion and design.
The teaching method is
anchored stimulating points of view of students to be experts in artisanal
fashion, design-led crafts and level-up skills in modern design sensibilities
and innovation. Each student is taught on the premise that design means
business by moulding them to be entrepreneurs rather than as employees,
thereby, creating industries towards nation building. The school offers courses
even to children and teens because it believes training them should during
formative years. It also inculcate to
students that a college education is not necessarily an advantage in the
creative world, thereby, giving them an alternative way for other career paths
other than the traditional ways.
The school offers
scholarships to youths who can not afford to go to school, specially to
children of artisans. These are in majority deserving
rural students, mostly children of craftsmen or young people within the crafts
cluster. It also conducts
annual design competition for scholarship called Hecho Derecho in which in-coming
students and already enrolled in may
avail of free tuitions by competing in design contests.
The school connects with the artisans' workshops
and community livelihood centers through on-line, thereby, upgrading the design
methods through information technology and digital media. Design-led
crafts and artisanal fashion becomes relevant where the crafts community is its
laboratory. It embraces design
through innovation with the green collar economy in mind while creating
design-led crafts which preserves the cultural. social and environmental
heritage of the Philippines and other races.
The school is located
in a restored 1920 building along the heritage row of Iloilo City. The building
was the first international hotel in the city where national and international
who’s who stayed. It overlooking the Iloilo straight and the Iloilo City
Capitol and the majestic old world edifices of the Queen’s City of the South.
