“And then we wanted to have more of a unique look so it wasn’t just the same logo everywhere. “We brought in a whole lot of different colours, so instead of being just basic balck and white we wanted to bring in pink and blue and a lot of other colours,” said Jaiden (JD) Gervais, one of the students in the class. The students had some different and creative ideas for their clothing rather than to make just plain shirts. They’re doing the custom logos versus the stock and changing… where we’re doing online and e-commerce and see how that can influence things.” The other thing with this group is that they’ve had to differentiate from the other groups that they’ve had in the past. “Their target market changes and not a lot of them understand that there’s been three clothing companies. “The one thing that’s different this year is that… every year we have a different group of kids that come into the building,” LeBlanc said. “The one thing I’m really big on them doing is that they have to make their product, and that’s something they have to realize through that whole cycle,” he said.Ĭlasses have had different ideas before, but this is the not the first go-round for the fashion idea. It’s an investment that these students want to do.

“A majority of these kids, by the time they’re done this semester, will probably have between 180 and 200 hours in the class,” said LeBlanc.

Entrepreneurship is a 100 hour class that you take in a semester and you take it through the whole entrepreneurial cycle.”įor the class, that means coming from an idea to building the business, securing financing, negotiating terms with suppliers and finding products all the way to selling and producing the product and perhaps realizing profit or loss. “We let them come up with their own idea,” said teacher Josh LeBlanc. The Oblivion clothing label will be on some of the clothes sold at the school. You go to school to learn, not for a fashion show, as The Fresh Prince’s mom apparently told him a few decades ago, but there’s a way to combine both of these things for the class in entrepreneurship at Estevan Comprehensive School.

Oblivion cutting room floor