Let’s start the journey that will bring us to know all the brilliant graduating fashion designers from each fashion school selected for CFDA+ 2017 edition.
ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY (SAN FRANCISCO, USA)
From the prestigious school Academy of Art University in San Francisco, founded in 1929 and always on the vanguard about innovatin and creativity with its art and fashion courses, were selected 7 students:
- AASTHA SHAH (BA Hons Fashion Design Womenswear) and PEGGY KUO (BFA Textile Design), a design duo, presented a graduate collection focused on textile prints and colorful embroideries and applications with 3d effects
- CARLY DEAN (MFA Textile Design) creates contemporary garments with multi-layers of fabrics using burnout technique
- CHRISTINA MIYAGI (BFA Textile Design) believes on up-cycling techniques to create new fabrics and interisting surfaces
- ERIKA TOMPKINS (BFA Fashion Design Womenswear) revisits simple and classic clothes with surrueal details and technological techniques
- FANG KATY LIU (MFA Textile Design) explores colors and surfaces with unusual materials and an artistic approach
- RYAN ZHEN YU (MFA Fashion Design Womenswear) has a reaally futuristic vision focused on contrasts of dark and light, sharp and clean surfaces.
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| CFDA+ 2017 Aasha Shah & Peggy Kuo graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Carly Dean graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Christina Miyagi graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Erika Tompkins graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Fang Katy Liu graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Ryan Zhen Yu graduate collection |
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO (USA)
From Columbia College Chicago and its BFA Fashion Design course, thought to improve the aesthetic vision of each student through innovation and creative exploration, is coming MADELINE MOORE, graduated with honors. She presented a graduate collection based on clothes that exceed the normal boundaries of our bodies to built oversize shapes that had life of their own.
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| CFDA+ 2017 Madeline Moore graduate collection |
DREXEL UNIVERSITY (PHILADELPHIA, USA)
The ancient Drexel University in Philadelphia, founded in the far 1891 and with a renowned fashion design master course (in the world’s top 20), presented to CFDA+ two of its best students:
- ANNA SAJESKI (BS Fashion Design) is specialized in knitwear and prints, designed her graduate collection with three-dimensional structures to emulate the coral textures and the underwater ecosystem beauty.
- LELA THOMPSON (BS Fashion Design) explores new ways to reuse existing materials mixed to laser cutting, 3d printing and traditional knitting machine.
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| CFDA+ 2017 Anna Sajeski graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Lela Thompson graduate collection |
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, USA)
FIT, the famous Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, is internationally recognized as one of the most important school for fashion design, which basing its fame on innovation and great attention to the student’s needs. ALYSSA WARDROP (BFA Fashion Design Womenswear) is a promising designer specialized in artisanal techniques. Her graduate collection “Body as a canvas” is inspired by 1960s italian movies and presents geometrical silhouettes transformed into canvas with painting effects, top-stitching and layered fabrics.
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| CFDA+ 2017 Alyssa Wardrop graduate collection |
POLIMODA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION DESIGN AND MARKETING (FLORENCE, ITALY)
Ranked as one of the best fashion school in the world, Polimoda was founded in 1986 in Florence by Shirley Goodman and Emilio Pucci as new center for the excellence of fashion education focused on concrete connection with industries and design studios. From this school were selected three students:
ILARIA MEUCCI (BFA Footwear and Accessories Design), passionate about Thierry Mugler style, creates futuristic accessories using 3D and creative techniques mixed with a more artisanal approach.
SHANIA MATTHEWS (BFA Fashion Design Womenswear and Knitwear) loves colors and creates soft silhouettes draping and works mixing textures and fabrics with handcrafted embroideries.
PIERPAOLO GRASSO (BFA Fashion Design Menswear) is surprising for his experimentational approach to shapes and fashion collection, which becomes an extravagant and colorful tale.
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| CFDA+ 2017 Ilaria Meucci graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Shania Matthews graduate collection |
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| CFDA+ 2017 Pierpaolo Grasso graduate collection |
MARIST COLLEGE (POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, USA)
Marist College, founded in 1929 and located in the beautiful Hudson River Valley near New York, is an interesting reality in fashion school panorama, with a business-building approach to fashion design that leaves however great space to experimentation and creativity. From this school is coming EMMA COLLINS (BFA Fashion Design Menswear), whose graduate collection is a modern rethinking of men’s classic clothes in a more street wear style, with unusual details and new proportions.
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| CFDA+ 2017 Emma Collins graduate collection |
Today we’ve seen the young and talented students of the first 6 fashion schools. I’ll wait you really soon for the next episode of this journey to discover CFDA+ 2017 graduating designers selection.
