Coordinator
Professor
Janice Hyde

Janice has taught at the college in both the Fashion Merchandising and Fashion Design programs.

Her passion for the fashion industry and brings a wealth of knowledge from the having held various positions in the industry as; designer, entrepreneur, stylist, forecaster, buyer and merchandiser. Currently, Janice focuses on engaging her students with up-to-date retail applications and computer skills.

Full Time
Professor
Wella Nolan

Wella Nolan studied Fashion Design and Merchandising at Ryerson. Her career in Visual Merchandising ranges from fashion styling to hard goods merchandising including trade show display and design, merchandising plans and installations, space planning and window display design.

She has designed and produced marketing, merchandising promotions for department stores, specialty chains and has designed seasonal decorative changes for malls, conference centres and restaurants.

Her passion is teaching students the many design skills required to succeed in the business of merchandising.

I bring to the classroom enthusiasm, a passion for the learning experience and solid teaching skills. Most recently I have been involved in developing a fashion design curriculum of a college in India.

I am every excited about our international connection. I have taught in the fashion design and fashion merchandising programs at both Sheridan and Fanshawe College. As well I have taught textile design and fashion marketing at Brescia College.

A graduate of the Fashion Design Program at Fanshawe College, I have many years of experience in the garment industry, working both in manufacturing and retailing. For eight years I owned and operated a children's wear business, designing, manufacturing, and marketing a high end line of children's clothing across Canada. During this time I operated two retail outlets, one in Toronto's Queens Quay Terminal and the other in downtown London.

One of my proudest moments was being honored as one of the designers in a special contemporary Canadian fashion exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Barb has over 20 years teaching experience in business based courses for the Fashion Merchandising Program. Her passion is encouraging students to try various techniques in the learning process.

Barb studied Fashion Merchandising at Ryerson University and has extensive sales and management experience with numerous Canadian companies.

It all began when the baby picked up the pencil…. Only kidding. It starts here:

I have been inspired to draw since I was young so I knew that creating images was to be in my life. I studied Advertising Art-Design and graduated from the Fanshawe College’s program.

After winning a National Poster competition and working in the industry for three years I opened up my own space “studio Graphix”. It has allowed me to unleash my artistic expressions and to work with clients from ideas to completion. From graphic layout and design, logos, corporate identity designs, illustration to painting, many images have been created.

I started instructing at Fanshawe College in the Art and Design Division in 1998. I have designed and delivered various courses within Graphic Design, Fashion Merchandising and Fashion Design Programs. Each course, whether it is Design and Colour Theory, Visual Communication, Illustration or Prop Production I try to be very creative and inspire the students to think outside the box in a less is more approach.

I encourage and help develop the student’s own original style. “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” Chinese Proverb

Linda Shorten

Heather Toskan has been a professor in the Fashion Merchandising program at Fanshawe College since 1994 and enjoys teaching Fashion Photo Styling and Publicity and Writing. “The subjects are important, but it’s the students that keep me interested. I enjoy helping to develop and bring new talent into the industry.” says Toskan.

A Toronto native, Toskan has a wide range of photo media experience within the fashion and beauty industry. Prior to moving to the London area in the early 1990s, she built a portfolio working for various commercial clients and spent several years as chief fashion photo stylist on The Bay account.

Toskan continues to work on varied print and television projects and has written and produced regular fashion editorials and photo spreads for Sun Media/Quebecor Inc. for approximately 12 years. Other career highlights include working in public relations, training and brand development at MAC Cosmetics in Toronto and Montreal.