Enterprising club designs clothes for campus groups

by Maggie Blackburn

Looking around MHS, there seem to be different sweaters for every club, event, and group on campus. The trouble with all of these sweaters is that someone has to design them.

Need a sweater design? No problem. The Fashion Club here at MHS has got you covered. They design the sweater and even take care of the order, but not without a price.

After Fashion Club merged with Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Club (FIDM), the two clubs put their heads together to come up with a fundraiser. This fundraiser not only allows the club to earn money, but it gives them a way to expose their creative ideas to the student body by designing different designs for group sweatshirts or t-shirts.

Senior Nelson Pham, the President of Fashion Club, said that Fashion Club talks to the club presidents about designing their sweatshirts. If the presidents want the club to design their sweatshirts, they give out a set criterion of what has to be on the sweatshirt—such as color, names, or titles. The Fashion Club then designs the sweatshirt for that particular club and it then pays Fashion Club if it decides to use it.

Everyone in the club participates in making a design. They submit all of the designs to the club or group that they are making sweatshirts for because they do not want to turn down anyone’s design in the club. “We all make different designs, and the club decides which one they want,” Pham said. “If they want it, five dollars goes to us.”

The Fashion Club has already helped order the sweatshirts for the Clarinet section in the Marching Band, earning $40. The club is in the process of working with DBA to make their design, Pham said. The Fashion Club can earn about $700 if DBA accepts their design, according to Pham.

The club has a plan for the money they make. The money that the club earns from the sweatshirt designs goes to pay for various field trips and projects, in addition to fashion shows and donations to an orphanage.