All About the Fashion Class
The Fashion Class makes sewing and fashion design easy and fun for everyone! Our courses combine practical skills with creativity, unlocking limitless self-expression in students of all ages. Discover the joy of making something with your own two hands, the energy of a creative community and the excitement of fashion design at The Fashion Class!…
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The Fashion Class makes sewing and fashion design easy and fun for everyone! Our courses combine practical skills with creativity, unlocking limitless self-expression in students of all ages. Discover the joy of making something with your own two hands, the energy of a creative community and the excitement of fashion design at The Fashion Class!…
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Looking for a sewing machine? There are several machines we recommend that are great for kids and easy to use. The Fashion Class is a Singer Sponsored Sewing Studio. Our students work on state-of-the-art touch screen sewing machines.Gallery
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Our creative classes for children and teens take place after school and on weekends for multiple weeks throughout the school year. Students learn to sew real and wearable clothing in our signature Fashion Design and Sewing class over an 8-12 week period. Additional courses offered include accessory, illustration and fashion branding/marketing. All classes are offered seasonally…
Sewing and Fashion Design Classes in Manhattan
Our sewing courses for kids run for 8-12 weeks throughout the school year. Children and teen students will learn how to use the sewing machine while they create real and wearable clothing for themselves! Other design classes, like fashion design and illustration also available. Sewing classes end with a free fashion show!
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Create with Sewing and Fashion Design Camp! We offer children’s fashion design and sewing camps during summer break, winter recess, spring break and for 1-day during most school holidays in our Bryant Park Manhattan and Upper East Side NYC studios. Our students learn everything from sewing, fashion illustration, accessory design and even fabric science! Each…
Fashion Camps in Manhattan
When school is out Fashion Camp is in! We offer one-day camps during all school holidays and week-long camps throughout the summer for ages 6-8, 9-12 and 13-17 years old. Our campers learn to use the sewing machine to create real clothing and accessories. We round out the day with fun fashion lessons like creating a fashion business and jewelry making!
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Join us for fun sewing and fashion workshops offered monthly at The Fashion Class. Perfect for trying out sewing for the first time to see if your child would like to take a longer course or for seasoned sewers who want to make a specific project! We offer Halloween costume making in October, American Girl doll…
Sewing Workshops in Manhattan
Join us for fun and fabulous sewing and fashion workshops offered seasonally at The Fashion Class! Perfect for trying out sewing for the first time to see if your child would like to take a longer course or for seasoned sewers who want to make a specific project.
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Looking for an amazing fashion birthday party that all the parents can’t stop talking about? Our Fashion Design Birthday Parties for girls and boys allow your birthday child and their guests to actually sew clothing, design fashion or walk in a real fashion show! Our creative parties for kids feature different make and take projects…
Fashion Birthday Parties in Midtown
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Party Extras
Photo Booths $15 per guest – Adds 30 minutes to end time Send the birthday girl to Paris this year with our Eiffel Tower photo backdrop or have each guest appear on the cover of a magazine! Party goers dress up is satin gloves and feather boas (optional) and pose for our photographer. Each guest…
Request a Party
Please fill out the form to request a birthday party at The Fashion Class! Our event coordinator will get back to you to plan your child’s special event.
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Our group lessons for children, teens and adults cover a wide variety of sewing and creative lessons! We cater directly to Girl Scout troops with discounted “badge-earning themed” sewing lessons and other creative projects like entrepreneurship and recycled jewelry making. Join us for your child’s play date or tween group hang out with their friends…
Girl Scout Fashion Activities
We offer a variety of creative activities for Girl Scouts! Sewing, design and illustration are the perfect activities for Girl Scouts, Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes and Seniors to earn key badges! Our projects are educational, rewarding and fabulously fun. Plus TFC regularly teaches courses with themes like Entrepreneurship and Product Design; all geared toward fashion. Girl…
Play Dates and Group Lessons
Need a cool place for your child and friends to spend a few hours? Want to host a birthday activity without the extra party stuff? A group lesson is perfect for play dates and groups of kids who love to create! Our activities are for 2 or more children who want a fun and fab…
Visiting NYC?
This is a fun group activity for children, teens and adults interested in Fashion Design or fans of the show Project Runway! Meet us at our Manhattan Studio as we channel Tim Gunn and give you your next fashion challenge. After we arrive at Mood Designer Fabrics (where the designers shop on Project Runway) you will have thirty minutes to select and purchase your fabric. Back at the studio it’s time to design, sew and decorate your project. Will you be in or out?
Home School Sewing Classes
Expand on your child’s creativity with home-school group lessons at The Fashion Class! Fashion Design and Sewing is not only super fun and fabulous – it teaches elements of math, science and the arts in a real-life hands-on way. At our fashion studios we welcome home school groups who’re curious about fashion design, sewing and…
School Field Trips
With our large sewing and art studios The Fashion Class makes a wonderful field trip for school-aged students. We’ve hosted everything from pre-school children learning about types of clothing to college students learning to sew! With discounted pricing, day trips to our studio are filled with hands-on educational fun. Perfect for all age groups we…
Adult Sewing Classes
Our Sewing Programs for Grown-Ups are perfect for groups of friends, a girl’s night out or a creative corporate team building exercise! With a room full of sewing machines and instructors who work in the fashion industry, your sewing aspirations can become a reality. We focus on teaching you how to use the sewing machine…
Mommy & Me Sewing Lessons
Learn to a new skill and spend quality time together! Mommy & Me Lessons are perfect for Mother’s and Daughters, Sons, Fathers and anyone else in the family who’d like to learn to sew! Available in our Bryant Park and Upper East Side Studios in Manhattan. Our family based lessons will teach you and your…
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Our on-site enrichment sewing and fashion programs bring the design and creativity to you! Perfect for public and private schools, libraries or other facilities our programs can run during the day or after school throughout the year at your facility. Aside from machine sewing, The Fashion Class specializes in educating children and teens in other…
In School Fashion Program
Our ‘in-school’ after school program brings fashion education to your students. Now with Virtual Enrichment options for Schools! Our program is fun, affordable, educational and easy to implement. The after school program can be customized for your school by amount of students, number of weeks and lessons. We designed the program to be: 90 minute…
Library Sewing Programs
Our Library Fashion Design and Sewing programs can be a one-day workshop or a multi-day course. With plenty of sewing and crafting lessons, guests will enjoy designing and creating a one-of-a-kind clothing, accessory or room decor item. Our professional and trained instructors will arrive day-of with all necessary supplies, set up the classroom, instruct your…

Fashion Classes
April 10, 2019
With Bring Your Child to Work just around the corner we’re bringing you the best activities to keep the little ones occupied throughout the day (while learning all about how hard their mommies and daddies work!) But first, a little anecdote. When I was ten my aunt Anne Marie took me to ‘take your child…
June 26, 2018
Our teen fashion design programs are super important for any teen or pre-teenager who’s looking to attend a design program in any college or university like Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Parsons, LIM or even a high school level program. Our teen classes and camp projects are self-designed and begin with sketching a design. Students…
April 5, 2016
Our #1 question here at TFC is always “Do you have classes for adults?”. Well I’m very happy to write that We Do Now! Sip & Stitch Sewing Workshops for Adults are social sewing parties that combine easy to learn sewing projects for beginners and experts alike with the social atmosphere of a girls night out….
February 2, 2016
With the President’s Day week and February break coming closer, we are dedicating the week off to a five day fashion camp for kids! In this camp, kids will learn how to sew with real sewing machines and create clothes and accessories that are purely their own creation. They can even wear them! Full day…
January 21, 2016
Here at the Fashion Class, our goal is to generate a creative and enjoyable space for all of our students. We love to keep them entertained while parents can take the day off! One of the classes we love holding are day classes because we devote time from 9:00am to 5:00pm to exciting classes and projects….
November 28, 2015
This is the year for homemade gifts and The Fashion Class is the place to make them! We are hosting a workshop making sewing the base of the gift. It takes place on Saturday, December 19 at our Manhattan studios from 11am to 2pm. Students will be able to choose one of five different gift…
October 26, 2015
The Fashion Class recently had their annual halloween workshop! With the day quickly approaching our students participated in an all too exciting workshop where they made their own costumes. They had the opportunity to pick from a gum ball machine, a fifties fashionista or a cheetah. Each student picked their favorite and spent weeks putting it…
July 29, 2015
Recently the teens of our camp have visited a new and exciting location called Scenterprises. This amazing place is located on the East side of Manhattan and run by the founder, Sue Phillips. She created this brand to share her passion for scents with other people and from there opened up a store called The…
February 20, 2015
This past Fall The Fashion Class had a fun new guest at our Fashion Show in Merrick! Beth, a Newsday reporter, stopped by to ask some questions, chat with students and see what our sewing classes for kids are all about! Read the Full Article Here
April 23, 2014
Summer 2012 The Fashion Class was featured on Cosmo Times as a top place to visit in NYC. This video highlights our Teen Camp program where students learn how to actually create a clothing line from start to finish. Cosmo Times spent Day 1 with our teen campers as we visited and purchased fabric from…