Interest of S1 Fashion Design Program Students in 2015 for Following Fashion Show Activities in Malang City

Abstract

Fashion show is one of the activities that was held in out of campus. This activity can increase students experience in fashion industry. The purpose of the study was to describe students interest to participate in fashion show activities. This study used descriptive with quantitative approach. 61 students involved in this study, they were from fashion department of Universitas Negeri Malang. To gain data in this study, researcher used questionnaire with 60 questions. This study had two sub variables, namely intrinsic factor and extrinsic factor. The results of this study showed that the intrinsic factor presented (75.5%) most of students interested in fashion show activities, it means that students' interest to fashion show influenced by distributing competence, getting relations, feeling happy and feeling proud. The extrinsic factor presented (69.4%) most of students interested in fashion show activities too, it means that students' interest to fashion show influenced by family environment, community environment, school environment (knowledge and skills), and opportunities. Based on the results above, it could be concluded that; (1) in general, the interest of students to participate to fashion shows in Malang were in the high category or interested as evidenced by the results of research that many students had high interest; (2) intrinsic factor included distributing competence, getting relations, feeling happy and feeling proud had high support for the interest; (3) extrinsic factor included the family environment, community environment, school environment (knowledge and skills), and opportunities of fashion shows also had a high level of support for the students interest.