Sue Wang

Graduation Fashion Show

Passionate graduation fashion show on May 5, 2012, and start with an enthusiastic claps moved on the first student collection. The student portfolios changes with perfect suitable music, which, explained a different story of their collection and transferred an each emotion to their audients. Fabrication that they used like: cotton, linen, lightens weight leather, silk, wood, and knitted fabric. There was one of the most interesting fabric is a transparent gelatin look materials. Styles on this show can be identifiable and explored each design student’s unique concept and inspiration. Mix up fabric with long silhouettes was the theme for this fashion show. Whereas, with a bouncing music, a static with a lively collection was riding on a rhythm perfectly and changed in desirable features, which layer by layer with vivid patterns that jumped around with motionless corset. 

Graduating fashion show that ending in happy tears on outstanding design students with their honors. As one of the biggest events in Academy of Art, fashion department invited so many prestigious guests of honor, which included Cathy Horyn, Nathalie Rykiel, Yigal Azrouël, Andrew Buckler, Steven Cox & Daniel Silver of Duckie Brown, Christina Neault, and Laure du Pavillon reviewed student portfolios and sat front row to view the collections of our graduating seniors.

Three talented students won award graduating top price: Maggie Luo Mo, Donna Dong Zhang, and Juhyun park. Maggie luo mo, is the most lucky award student that can go for Paris have her internship, and the other award one year scholarship for studying in French.

Maggie’s is a double major in fashion design and knitwear, her inspiration of her knitwear portfolio is discover the sea and the illuminate water inspired her.

Dona Dong Zhang’s inspiration is 1940’s zoot suit, she combined classic tailored jacket with the valued draped baggy pant. 

Juhyun this time inspired by Stone washed, Mark Pothko’s abstract paintings. Washed linen, and stitching on the garment were the theme for her collection.

Amazing creative fabric fashion piece by Randy Brooke, this piece looks like gelatin material, but it’s knitting piece. I know it’s not making sense, while the truth is the design student knitted pattern and silhouette first and pour the gelatin on the top of the knitting pieces.

       

lively collection was riding on a rhythm perfectly and changed in desirable features, which layer by layer with vivid patterns that jumped around with motionless corset.

The graduating runway show was a core platform for those passionate fashion students to explore their creative talents. Also our guests of honor provide extremely desirable opportunities for design students who award in fashion event, and stimulate all of fashion student's passion in fashion.