ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER February 23, 2015 Circulation 115,000 Cover, pages 2-7 “Lights. Camera. Catwalk.” Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2015 Show Kimball Studio: A Diary
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MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK
LIGHTS. CAMERA. CATWALK.
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The School of Fashion’s finest debuted their Fall 2015 collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at New York City’s Lincoln Center By Malcolm Thomas Additional reporting by Academy Art U News staff Saturday, February 14, M.F.A. designers from the School of Fashion at Academy of Art University presented their Fall 2015 thesis collections at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in New York. Since 2005, the School of Fashion has helped foster the careers of students and recent graduates by premiering their collections at New York Fashion Week. For the Fall 2015 season, 15 designers presented 10 collections, four of which were collaborations between fashion design and textile design students. “We are committed to helping our students launch their careers, and we are
Academy of Art University fashion designers and textile designers from the School of Fashion at MBFW. (L–R) Xue Yang, Oom Terdpravat, Stella Xingyu Hu, Xiaowei Liu, Ozanhan Kayaoglu, Paulina Susana Romero Valdez, Tam Nguyen, Erin A.F. Milosevich, Emmanuelle Ciara Jones, Christian Willman, Han Tang, Ghazaleh Khalifeh, Farnaz Golnam, Andrea Nyberg and Kevin C. Smith. Photo by David Dooley.
“We are committed to helping our students launch their careers, and we are thrilled to give them the platform to present their work to fashion industry professionals. It is an incredible opportunity for our student designers to debut their collections during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.” —Dr. Elisa Stephens
thrilled to give them the platform to present their work to fashion industry professionals,” said Dr. Elisa Stephens, president of Academy of Art University. “It is an incredible opportunity for our student designers to debut their collections during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.” The show began with designer Emmanuelle Ciara Jones and textile designer
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Ghazaleh Khalifeh’s African inspired textiles and brush stroke prints inspired by the late Jean-Michel Basquiat. The famed New York City painter known for playing with suggestive dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation and inner versus outer experience in his work inspired many. Like a Manhattan skyscraper, Christian Willman’s
women stood tall. Willman’s sleeves were realized using mathematical equations and handcrafted 3-D modeling techniques. Inspired by installation artist Matt Calderwood, these looks are brazen enough to lay on the backs of many a hard-edged, Park Avenue power player or set up in an art gallery as an installation of
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