I attended Blanche Macdonald for fashion design and I can honestly say that i wish i had gone somewhere else. Long story short it is all about money, and the sewing and pattern making teacher, Brenda Swinglehurst, could actually care less about the students. Those classes were a full year and one of the most important classes of the program. She did demonstrations around a table with 18 - 20 girls crowded around the table as well, but if you couldnt see which sometimes you couldnt and you were expected to know what to do and go from there, and if you didnt...good luck. Brenda would be the first one out of class on breaks and the last one back. Once 5: 30pm hit, she would be out of there before any of the students. Her knowledge is very good, and she can sew and draft very well, that is not what im saying, what i mean is that she didnt care about the designers themselves. I paid $15 000 to pretty much get together with girls from our class to teach each other because we had no help from Brenda.
