Closing Night, El Paseo Fashion Show

The dazzling designs of Oliver Tolentino were on display Saturday night at the El Paseo Fashion Show. Cathedral City High School digital arts student Tanya Sanchez caught the highlights of the show with this photo essay.

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Night Six, El Paseo Fashion Show

The designs Friday night at the El Paseo Fashion Show were by Trina Turk and the theme of the night was Palm Springs Eternal. This slideshow was shot by Digital Arts Technology Academy students Bianca Sosa and Kathernine Sanchez.

Kids Get Their Shot At El Paseo Fashion Show Thursday night

The kids got their chance Thursday night at the El Paseo Fashion Show. For one night, designs by Fashion Institute Of Design and Merchandising students rocked the bright lights of El Paseo Fashion Week. Student designers like Alexandra Paulis, Airi Isoda and Kristine Flanigan put their best foot forward on night five of El Paseo Fashion Week.

For less than an hour, their designs were under the bright lights of the fashion world.

And all these young guns of fashion hope it's not the last time.

Photos by Digital Arts Technology Academy students Primavera Lopez and Yorely Guttierez, Cathedral City High School.

This blog received a mention on the KPSP Local2 news yesterday. Here's a link to that shout-out by news anchor Kris Long:

http://www.kpsplocal2.com/default.aspx?articleID=55462

Project Runway Packs Them In; Night Four of the El Paseo Fashion Show

Fashion and television collided in a colorful splash of fun and style Wednesday night at the El Paseo Fashion Show.

With the Real Housewives of Orange County sitting ringside and American Idol finalist Kimberly Locke providing the vocals, Project Runway designers Michael Costello, Mondo Guerra and Christopher Collins delighted the standing room only crowd at the big white tent on the corner of Larkspur and El Paseo.

Thursday night the show continues with the Fashion Institute of Design and merchandising (FIDM) Debut 2011. Doors open at 7 p.m. The show begins at 8 p.m.

The photo above was taken by Digital Arts Technology Academy student Arlene Arellano.

Rockin' Night at El Paseo Fashion Show

The crowd at the El Paseo Fashion Show was clapping and on its feet Tuesday night to the strains of Proud Mary, Pink Panther music and a salute to the armed forces as the Rocking Roberge Spectacular was just that.

A Fashion Week sponsor and El Paseo boutique, InSanity presented its edgy and sophisticated clothes for the spring, as well as jewelry designed by Denise Robergé.

All proceeds from the night benefitted the Coachella Valley Autism Society of America and Loving All Animals.

Fashion Show Week at the big tent continues Wednesday night with Project Runway. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.

Video was shot by Fatima Salcedo, a student in Matt Hamilton and David Vogel's Digital Storytelling Class at Cathedral City High School.

Night Two, El Paseo Fashion Show

Long-legged models and kids with attitude strolled the runway on the second night of the fashion parade at the El Paseo Fashion Week under the big white tent at the corner of El Paseo and Mountain Shadow. Monday night's event featured local stores Tommy Bahama, El Paseo Jewelry, White House Black Market, Cactus Flower Shoe Salon, Wayne's Collection, Eileen Fisher, She She Kids, V&G Hip Wear and Accessories, BB one, Bebe, Tink, Don Vincent, Dani, Josie's on El Paseo, and Chelsea Taylor.

Digital Arts Technology Academy student Spencer McQuinn photographed Monday night's action.

The runway show continues Tuesday night with Rocking Roberge Spectacular. Tent doors open at 7 p.m. with the show beginning at 8 p.m.

DATA Students Provide Total Coverage of El Paseo Fashion Show

Digital Arts Technology Academy (DATA) students at Cathedral City High School are documenting this week's Fashion Week on El Paseo. Sunday evening's show was themed the Best of Saks Fifth Avenue. Monday night the tent opens at 7 p.m for the 8 p.m. show entitled Fashion Runway Bar. The photo at left was taken by DATA senior Spencer McQuin.

DATA digital storytellers document CUE at Convention Center

DATA digital storytellers Jessica Gerrel and Arin Wall filmed and edited CUE Live productions at the Computer Using Educators Conference at the Palm Springs Convention Center on March 18, 2011. The CUE Conference is the largest and oldest education technology conference in California, and among the largest in the United States. Their videos can be viewed on School Tube.

Documentary Exposes AIDS Problem in Africa

Students in the Digital Arts Technology Academy attended a screening of the documentary "Angels in the Dust" Tuesday morning at the Palm Springs High School theater. The film is about Marion Cloete who abandons a life of privilege in Johannesburg to build Botshabelo, a village and school that provides orphaned children with shelter, food and education.

"The film made me reevualuate my health, my life and my family," said DATA senior Jessica Gerrell.

"It made made me realize that there are still good people out there devoting their lives to helping others," said DATA junior Paola Fernandez.

"I admire the Cloete family because they took their entire savings and built an orphange because not a lot of people would take everything they own and put it into an orphanagge to help children who are victims of AIDS," said DATA senior Jennifer Juarez.

James Egan is the Producer of the documentary.

Neely Tucker of the Washington Post wrote this about the documentary: "...you will be moved, if not stunned, by this straightforward, unadorned example of filmmaking. Director Louise Hogarth uses no voice-over narration, no real narrative device to move the story along. She just turned on the camera in 2004 and spent a large chunk of the next two years following Cloete on her duties, which range from playing with children to loading bodies in the mortuary into coffins and then into the back of a pickup."

Following the screening, Katherine Sanchez and Yoryely Rojas, two students in Matt Hamilton's digital storytelling class at Cathedral City High School, sat down with Hogarth to talk about her documentary.

Hogarth told the students that the film had a such a strong impact on her life that she started the orphan bracelet campaign, which is called DO Ubuntu, which means do unto others as you would have them do unto you. She employes women in South Africa who are living with HIV to make the bracelets. The profits go to a program that feeds 200 South African children every day, as well as capital projects, which recently included building a house in Uganda and a wing on an orphanage.

"Before making the documentary, I was very aware of the HIV problem in Africa and I wanted to make the rest of the world aware of it," said Hogarth. "At that point in time, South Africa wasn't able to get any HIV drugs because the president of Africa didn't believe HIV caused AIDS, so I was hoping this documentary would help to rectify that situation and put a spotlight on that situation and encourage people to help in any way they could."

Cathedral City High School photojournalist Spencer McQuinn is creating the runway graphics for the Fashion Week El Paseo Runway Bar. The senior student in the Digital Arts Technology Academy at CCHS spent Monday afternoon shooting images of Christina De Musee's acrylic on canvas art work and then sat down with Palm Springs Life Magazine Fashion Editor Susan Stein to pair the store names with the artwork. At left is an example of his work.

McQuinn is a student in Matt Hamilton's Digital Storytelling Class at Cathedral City High School.

Fashion week is March 20-28.