New York Fashion Week September 2007 Sharon Chia-yu Yeh & James Yoest

Photos by Randy Brooke

James Yoest, Fashion Design and Sharon Chia-yu Yeh, Textile Design - James and Sharon have collaborated on a sustainable collection using organic, conventional and reused fabrics, including parachute, and natural dyes. James imagined a woman on a journey when developing his silhouettes and Sharon was inspired by the rhythm of San Francisco for her textiles. James is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sharon is from Taipei, Taiwan and lives in San Mateo, CA.

San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Fashion Designer Shannon Galati and BFA Textile Designer Ya-Ling Hou collaborative collection

Photos by Randy Brooke.

BFA Fashion Designer Shannon Galati and BFA Textile Designer Ya-Ling Hou collaborated on one collection. Ya-Ling created the textiles inspired by OP ART (optical illusions) painter Bridget Riley for Shannon’s exaggerated 1960s silhouettes. Ya-Ling is the 2007 Grand Prize winner for the SURTEX® 2007 International Student Design Competition. She is from Kaohsiung, Taiwan and lives in Menlo Park, CA.

Shannon is a 2006 Fashion Group Foundation Scholarship Award winner and a Sister City Scholarship Exchange Program winner. She will spend next year studying abroad at Studio Berçot in Paris. She is from Palos Verdes Estates, CA and has been offered a job with Abercrombie & Fitch.

Press Book: Art Works Magazine Spring 2006

2006 New York Fashion Week Mari Matsumoto and Kyung Min Kim Collaborative Collection

Photos by Randy Brooke.

In addition to being featured on NY 1 News, Japanese fashion designer Mari Matsumoto and Korean textile designer Kyung Min Kim are listed on Forbes.com as “Designers to Watch” and an image from their collection appeared in Women’s Wear Daily with the review of the show.

Mari incorporated her understanding of Japanese clothing and the Kabuki way of styling into her collaborative collection with Kyung who based her textiles on Mari’s journey from grief to growth following the death of her mother. Mari and Kyung were also featured in a two-page spread in the Summer 2006 issue of Art Works Magazine.

Kyung Min has decided to create a collection for New York in 2007 while Mari will return to Japan to pursue her fashion career.

2006 New York Fashion Week Lydia Timken and Christine Welcher Collaborative Collection

Photos by Randy Brooke.

Academy of Art University upholds its commitment to educate designers on environmentally sound practices. This sustainable program is put into practice through Masamichi Matsushita’s use of organic wool as well as Christine Welcher’s womenswear collection. Christine collaborated with textile designer Lydia Timken and used organic color-grown cottons. Their collection was featured in San Jose Mercury News.

May 24, 2006 Fashion Show Collaboration Brooke Murphy and Olga Mashkova-Henry

BFA Fashion Design Graduate Brooke Murphy collaborated with BFA Knitwear Design Graduate Olga Mashkova-Henry using snow queens as their inspiration. The braches of the tree representing a woman and the snow as her garments.

May 24, 2006 Fashion Show Collaboration Johanna Frenkel and Mandy Simon

BFA Fashion Design Graduate Johanna Frenkel’s organic collection was inspired by Alphonse Mucha John William Waterhouse, Gustav Klimt, and underground caves of Paris. She collaborated with BFA Textile Design Graduate Mandy Simon whose fabrics were inspired by Art Deco.