Hannah Norman recently joined the School of Fashion as full time faculty to build classes in Fashion Accessory Design. After graduating with Distinction in Art and Design from Cambridge University and Honors in Fashion Design from Kingston University, Hannah moved to Italy to work for MaxMara. In 2001, she joined the L.V.M.H. Group in Paris to work with Michael Kors on fashion and accessories. While with the L.V.M.H. Group, she became Artistic Director for Jewelry at Celine. Most recently, she has designed for Chloë. Her experience covers fashion design, knitwear design, accessory design, and illustration.

Hannah will be combining her industry experience and hands on skills to develop a program in accessories that includes fashion jewelry, small leather goods, bags, footwear, hats and scarves.

The first class in the program, An Introduction to Body Adornment will be available onsite in Spring 2010 with no pre-requisites.

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Cover: The magazine of high society, popular culture and style gives us a choice of cover for their September issue: Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett. We opted for the King of Pop. The magazine definitely gets some points for variety and a few more points for sentimental pop culture nostalgia. Grade: B+

Journalistic content: This is where the magazine shines. Of course there is a cover story of Michael Jackson – which is very thoughtful. In “The Boy Who Would Be King” (with photos by Annie Leibovitz), writer Lisa Robinson consolidates notes and interviews with Jackson to produce a great retrospective article of his life. The cover story on Fawcett is titled “Beautiful People, Ugly Choices” was written by Leslie Bennett and gives a look at her and Ryan O’ Neal’s life. Good content, not-so-good title. Other honorable mentions include “Out to Lunch;” an interview with Oscar de la Renta by John Heilpern and an interesting Q & A with Michael Kors. Then there’s the Best Dressed List – which is always a joy to read. Grade: A
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