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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Designer: Wen Jiang
BFA Womenswear Design student Wen Jiang lives and breathes fashion design. The School of Fashion’s design labs are like a second home for the Shen Yang native who spends the majority of her days and...
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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Livestream
Image courtesy of Isabella Bejarano, MFA Photography (May 2013). May 11th is right around the corner and we are getting extremely excited to see what is in store for the Graduation Fashion Show. The...
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2016 SHOP657 Capsule Collection Designers
As part of the Academy of Art University’s Spring 2016 Graduation Show, a crop of design students came together to work on a capsule collection that’ll be presented on the School of Fashion runway on...
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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Designers: Justin Moreno and Namrata Bhandari
A San Francisco native, BFA Menswear Design major Justin Moreno’s roots may be in the Bay Area but his inspiration for his 2016 Graduation Fashion Show collection came from a more global interest. “I...
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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Designer: Jiaqi Lu
BFA Womenswear Design student Jiaqi Lu was born and raised in Zhengzhou, China. After graduating high school, Lu migrated west and enrolled at the Academy of Art University in a bid to actualize her...
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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Designer: Ben Ellis
BFA Menswear Design student Ben Ellis is an artist and adventurer, a free spirit with a diverse skill set who has traveled all over the world. But no matter where he ventures off to he always returns...
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Meet the 2016 Graduation Show Designers and Alex Brownless, Co-Founder of...
If you’ve ever wanted to know what it was like to design and develop a fashion collection for Academy of Art University’s Graduation Show, now you can with first hand insights from the 2016 designers...
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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Designers: Vanessa Nash-Spangler
Vanessa Nash-Spangler, BFA Fashion Design, was born in Germany and was raised in Chandler, Arizona. Her Spring collection, entitled “GeoSprung” was inspired by the Fibonacci Sequence and hexagons. “I...
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Fashion Editorial: Treasure Island
Academy of Art University Fashion Styling students Bibiana Pina, Lily Ketabi, and Sophia Charles collaborated on a fashion editorial shot at Treasure Island by Photography alumna, Danielle Rueda....
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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Designer: Xiuzhen Li
Born in Wenzhou and raised in Xiangtan, BFA Womenswear Design student Xiuzhen Li left her native land after high school and moved to the Golden Gate City where she could pursue her sartorial passions...
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Digital Underground
We have reshaped society. Have you ever thought about all those fun art studio courses you were required to take in grade school? You know, the ones where you spent 50 minutes making a mask or painting...
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REMINDER: Fashion Media Panel with Mickey Boardman of Paper Magazine and Lars...
Don’t forget to attend the Fashion Media Panel featuring Mickey Boardman, Editorial Director of Paper Magazine, and Lars Petersen, Digital Director of Visionaire, on Wednesday, May 11 at 9:30AM (the...
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2016 Graduation Fashion Show Designers: Sophie Cheng
Sophie Cheng, BFA Fashion Design, was born and raised in Hong Kong. During her time at the Academy of Art University Sophie completed a design assistant internship with Powell & Mason. For her...
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Fashion Panel Discussion Tomorrow!!
Just a friendly reminder to set your calendars for the fashion panel tomorrow at 11am. The School of Fashion will be joined by fashion rockstars, Rodarte founders and sister design duo, the Mulleavy...
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Blogger Spotlight: Vanessa Hong of The Haute Pursuit
Photo courtesy of The Haute Pursuit A peek at her Instagram, and it’s clear that Vanessa Hong has a covetable style that’s deceivingly simple, yet undeniably cool. The famous fashion blogger is best...
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Fashion Editorial: Teddy Boys
Sketchbook pages from Wendy Ren Sketchbook pages from Wendy Ren Flore Morton, School of Fashion’s Assistant Director of Fashion Styling, gave students in her FSH 478: Editorial Styling class the task...
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Alumni Update: Jenmau Liau
Photo courtesy of Jenmau Liau Once upon a time (not that long ago), Taiwan was one of the top shoe exporters in the world. Business was booming, but by the mid-1980s, the industry’s heyday was over and...
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East Meets West
As Asian workers continue to grow more powerful and influential, fascination with this region and its rich sartorial traditions continues to inspire and find fresh expression. This editorial was...
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2016 Spring Graduation Fashion Show
San Francisco, CA, May 13, 2016 — The School of Fashion at Academy of Art University honored Kate and Laura Mulleavy, founders of Rodarte, at the 2016 Graduation Fashion Show on Wednesday, May 11,...
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Design in Wonderland: 2016 Spring Graduation Fashion Show
It was 1:30pm on Wednesday, May 11th. As we arrived backstage of the enormous open warehouse, we expected to see somewhat of a manic setting as designers were preparing their looks for the first show...
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