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SUMMARY:Fashion Writing - New York, NY - Tracey Lomrantz Lester - 8 sessions, $550
DESCRIPTION:\n\nPRICE\n$550 ($525 for AvantGuild)\n\nCOURSE DETAILS\nThis class will provide you with the skills necessary to find work as a professional fashion writer. Through insight into the fashion world and media, you\'ll learn to grasp the different styles of fashion journalism and gain insight into and an understanding of the fashion industry.\n\nUsing trend reports, reviews of collections, and analyzing the craft and business of fashion, you\'ll learn how to tackle fashion stories from different angles. The focus will be on established high fashion magazines, non-traditional publications, and websites. Class will also include guest lectures from fashion magazine editors.\n\nYou will learn the value of networking, creating and keeping contacts, and how to work with PR so that you get the heads-up on scoops and are invited to press launches and fashion shows. In addition, you\'ll learn to write pitch letters and emails to ensure you secure interviews with designers.\n\nThroughout the course, you\'ll build a portfolio of spec clips that will exhibit your ability to analyze and report on fashion.\n\nIn this class, you will learn how to:\n\nWatch shows, interpret collections, and develop an eye for inspiration\n\nWrite fashion headlines, runway reviews, and fashion features\n\nUse your personal style to create stories that editors crave\n\nUnderstand the differences between fashion editors, writers, and freelancers\n\nWrite compelling pitch letters\n\nBy the end of class, you will have: A pitch letter for a fashion feature and a collection of clips for a high fashion magazine.\n\nStudents who have taken this class have been published in:NYMag.com, Glamour.com, Community Voices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\n\nINSTRUCTOR BIO\nTracey Lomrantz is a contributing style editor at Glamour, where she helms the popular "Slaves to Fashion" blog and makes television appearances on behalf of the magazine for The Today Show, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Rachael Ray, Wendy Williams, and Good Morning America. Her work has also appeared in Elle, Details, Nylon, Marie Claire, Shape, Style.com, the New York Post and the New York Daily News. Tracey holds a master\'s degree in journalism from New York University.\n\nTestimonials\n\n"Tracey was very knowledgable and honest about the fashion industry. Her classes were very well structured and she brought in industry insiders. I am much more informed and confident about where to apply these skills into my career." -- Kendria Smith\n\n"Tracey was absolutely amazing! She provided information that was priceless and vital for entering the writing industry. She is genuine and an asset to any writing course. I will gladly take another course at mediabistro if taught by her. One of a kind!" -- Shaniece Jones\n\n"Tracey was a great instructor. I highly recommend this class to anyone interested in fashion writing." -- Jordan Phillips\n\n
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LOCATION:Mediabistro offices, New York, NY 475 Park Avenue South (at 31st)\n\n4th Floor\n\nNew York, NY 10016
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