South Florida Fashion Academy Student Runway Show & Portfolio Review Highlights in Fort Lauderdale
The passionate middle and high school students studying fashion design and cosmetology at South Florida Fashion Academy celebrated the end of the school year with their favorite signature fashion trends, designs and sustainable ensembles fashion at the 3rd Annual Portfolio Review & Student Fashion Runway Show in Fort Lauderdale’s budding Art District at the new YMCA South Florida Rooftop venue (1409 NW 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311) on May 30, 2025 in front of a large crowd of fashion lovers and parents.
Inspired by entertainers and globally celebrated movies like “Wicked,” SF/FA fashion design students (grades 6th-12th) and beauty/cosmetology students debuted new fashion collections in a riveting fashion runway show that they have developed over the 2024-2025 academic year.
Established in 2019, South Florida Fashion Academy’s founder and Executiv Director, Taj McGill, who also heads the school’s Fashion Design Program for middle and high school students, said she is proud to provide local Fort Lauderdale and Pompano middle and high school students their core education while allowing them to also study fashion design, merchandising, barbering, cosmetology and nail technology through the academy’s innovative dual-enrollment elective programs: “I’m so proud of our bright, creative students who are passionate about learning the craft of fashion design and the fashion industry. It’s my belief that creatives shouldn’t have to wait until college to start learning fashion design– they can start in sixth grade while receiving their core education in math, science, history and language arts at our academy,” McGill stated.
ABOUT SOUTH FLORIDA FASHION ACADEMY
South Florida Fashion Academy is a private, full-time middle and high school located in Lauderdale Lakes with the mission to educate and inspire the next generation of fashion and beauty professionals while through its dual-enrollment creative elective programming. With a focus on young Black creative grade school students, SF/FA provides students with an innovative quality core education (math, science, language arts, etc.) while also studying world-renowned fashion & beauty elective courses from highly skilled educators. SF/FA students gain access to industry internships offering practical real-world experience, college credit opportunities via dual-enrollment programs, rigorous and adaptable academic programs, experiential learning and ingenious partnerships that embrace inclusiveness, sustainability and a sense of community as well as help build the confidence necessary to be a world-class fashion and/or beauty professional or entrepreneur. SF/FA’s experienced instructors equally educates students in core subjects (math, reading, writing, science) as well as how to become proficient in the arts, fashion and beauty industries with a strong focus on excelling in all necessary required academic areas mandated by the state of Florida. To learn more about South Florida Fashion Academy, please visit South Florida Fashion Academy on Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Threads and TikTok. To schedule a campus tour or learn how to enroll your middle or high school child, please fill out this Admissions Inquiry Form, call our academy at (954) 245-5858 or email us today at Info@Southfloridafashionacademy.com.
