Showing posts with label New York Fashion Week 06. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York Fashion Week 06. Show all posts
Monday, September 3, 2007
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
2006 New York Fashion Week After Party Hosted by Surface magazine
Academy of Art University and Surface Magazine hosted a party for the School of Fashion MFA Graduates after their fashion show in the Bryant Park Tents during New York Fashion Week. The party was held at the QT Hotel at 125 West 45th Street with the fashion show projected in the crowded pool area.
Numerous alumni attended such as Chris Cortez, the September 2005 reality-show winner of CBS' The Cut with Tommy Hilfiger series, and Michael Carbaugh whose line Sandoval showed later that week at Bumble & Bumble in the meat packing district.
Pablo Fernandez’s twin brother Ernesto came to celebrate his brother’s success. Ernesto is a 2004 graduate of the University and presently works at American Eagle. Pablo, who graduated this year, has accepted a position at Nice Collective here in San Francisco. They hope to one day launch their own line.The party went on into the night and was the perfect celebratory ending to a successful New York fashion show.
Monday, September 18, 2006
2006 New York Fashion Week Stephanie Sauceda
Photos by Randy Brooke.
Stephanie Sauceda’s sharply tailored menswear collection was included in the Forbes.com menswear trend report and noted as having a “film noir impression” by Edge New York. Stephanie visited her Spanish roots drawing inspiration from armor and military. She based each look on a Spanish conquistador and hopes to return to Spain to pursue her fashion career.
2006 New York Fashion Week Shanti Rose Markstrom
Photos by Randy Brooke.
FashionLines.com hailed “The unique and amazingly hand detailed ribbon-based couture like pieces from Swedish and African-American Shanti Rose Markstrom who literally brought down the house with her heavily constructed ivory ribboned corset top and narrow brocade pants.” Shanti took inspiration from Commedia del’arte and Victorian circus performers as well as French artists Jean-Antoine Watteau and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Her collection was also included in the 24th Annual Macy’s Passport 2006 Fashion Extravaganza in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Shanti is presently designing for Blanc de Chine in Hong Kong.
2006 New York Fashion Week Quyen Nguyen
Photos by Randy Brooke.
Fashion and knitwear designer Quyen Nguyen “created a very modern, very wearable and very saleable collection” according to Edge New York. Girl Scout uniforms and menswear shirts inspired Quyen. Quyen has launched her own line, visit her website at www.quyenknits.com.
2006 New York Fashion Week Pablo Fernandez
Photos by Randy Brooke.
Pablo Fernandez, a native of Uruguay, had a two-page spread in the Spanish newspaper El Diario La Prensa who interviewed Pablo backstage before the show. They also put one of his looks on the cover of their Sunday, September 10th edition.
Pablo incorporated his fashion and knitwear design focus into an avant-garde collection inspired by the early-80s, vintage cartoons and WWI paraphernalia. Pablo was a 2004 CFDA Scholarship Award recipient. In May 2006, Pablo was awarded an internship at Louis Vuitton in Paris for 2007 after Christophe Girard, Deputy Mayor of Paris Responsible for Culture and Director of Fashion Strategy of the LVMH Fashion Group, met Pablo and viewed his portfolio. Pablo’s collection was showcased on the runway of the 24th Annual Macy’s Passport 2006 in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He accepted a position with Nice Collective here in San Francisco before moving to New York to work on a collection with his twin brother Ernesto who graduated from the School of Fashion two years earlier.
2006 New York Fashion Week Susan Fort and Masamuchi Matsushita
Photos by Randy Brooke.
Fashion designer Masamichi Matsushita collaborated with textile designer Susan Fort on a futuristic menswear collection using “O-Wool by Jasco” organic wool donated by Vermont Organic Fiber Company [www.vtorganicfiber.com] and organic cotton has been donated by Specialty Fabrics.
Originally from Texas, Susan drew inspiration for her textile designs from the Californians she met while here at the University. Shapes found in nature inspired Masamichi’s designs.
Their collection was also showcased on the runway of the 24th Annual Macy’s Passport 2006 in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Masa has accepted a position with Nice Collective here in San Francisco.
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.
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