We ask the graduates that presented their debut collections in a group showcase during New York Fashion Week to reflect on their journey, creative process, and inspiration.
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A recent collaboration between BFA Fashion Design student Zixuan (Stella) Quan and BFA Knitwear Design student Lulu Hui-Ju Tsai, yielded a six-look collection for their senior thesis project, which utilized their strengths, and served as a proxy for an industry-like exercise.
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Yohamy Cisneros, BFA Fashion Styling, Academy of Art University, explores concerns about the fragility of our identity in the social media world of globally shared personal content, and the rise of automated facial recognition. Collections by Ryan Yu and Hailun Zhou, both MFA Fashion Design graduates, support the sci-fi aspect of the story with their metallic, plastic, and black and white graphic effects.
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Sophia Charles, BFA Styling, conceptualizes the quest for identity alongside the people who influence us on the journey from childhood to adulthood. Dressed in oversized clothing that won’t fit for another decade, the children play and explore their rustic, dream-like world.
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Chinese fashion design student, Weina Li, reflects upon and informs us about “the Chinese Cultural Revolution” under Mao Zedong through a fashion concept video entitled A Piece of Red Cloth.
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What happens when your model ‘muse’ is a balloon? When MFA students are mid-collection and inspiration strikes? A playful re-imagination of models, shape, and collection prototypes are artfully captured by Simon Ungless, and Danielle Rueda.
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MFA Photography alumna, Isabella Bejarano reimagines the pages of Nancy Cunard’s autobiography in the visual form. Heiress, author, activist, and muse, Cunard inspired through her multifaceted roles and trans-continental heritage and 180 Magazine honors Cunard’s compelling avant-garde personal style.
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True to the University’s mission, the Sculpture program strives to deliver to young artists a skills-based curriculum through the efforts of experienced, passionate faculty.
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Michelle Helene is a womenswear label created by School of Fashion alumna Michelle Grunberg (BFA Fashion Design, 2003). Her unique woven textiles and designs are created by hand and cater to an increasingly appreciative audience desiring environmentally-conscious and style-savvy fashion.
Read MoreWhen faced with the task of coming up with a concept for her final project in FSH 478 Editorial Styling, Andrea Guindi, BFA Fashion Styling, turned to aspects of life in San Francisco that she found particularly resonant and influential to much of her time here as a student – the intersection of music and fashion.
Read MoreThe flight from Yangon to San Francisco takes about 18 hours. For Chaw Chaw Su San (BFA Fashion Styling) it was the dream of fashion that had brought her from Myanmar to California four years ago.
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We have all heard that fashion is at a crossroads. That the rules of engagement have changed, the patterns of consumption have shifted, and the industry’s structure has been deemed arcane and disrupted.
Read MoreFor more than 20 years, the School of Fashion at Academy of Art University has provided BFA Fashion Design students the opportunity to study for one year in Paris through the merit based "Paris San Francisco Sister City Scholarship Exchange.”
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When it comes to crème de la crème talent pool, alumni Max Lu and Jingci Jessi Wang are the latest Academy success story.
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Explore some of the looks from the NYFW S/S17 Runway from MFA and BFA Fashion Design students
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