This Friday at 7 p.m., the students will host an epic Fashion Show at the school. "But I do want them to open up their creativity." "They don't necessarily have to be the next designer," Rodriguez said. Rodriguez teaches her students how to sew, but what she's really aiming for is freeing their minds through clothing design. "When they asked me to be the teacher, I couldn't say no," said Jomayra Rodriguez, a fashion-industry vet who leads the class. The fashion design program is the hot class at Davenport 200 kids are enrolled, with another 400 on the waiting list. "This" is the brand-new Fashion Lab at the relatively brand-new Polk County school. "I originally wanted to be a therapist, but now I love this," she said. There was a time when Davenport High School freshman Gloria Elias, holding a very rare pair of hand-painted Taylor Swift jeans, had different career plans.
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