Fashion School News: Academy Award Fashion Group Foundation Scholarship Winner

Alyssa Prentice, BFA Fashion Design student, has been selected to receive a scholarship from the Fashion Group Foundation. Only two are selected each year. At the next Fashion Group International meeting, Alyssa will be introduced to the members and presented with a check.

Alyssa is currently working on her collection to be shown next April in San Francisco.

Shannon Galati, 2007 BFA Fashion Design graduate, was selected last year.

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.

Video: San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 Shannon Galati and Ya-Ling Hou

Academy Award: Fashion Group Foundation Scholarship Winner

BFA Fashion Design student Shannon Galati has been awarded a scholarship from Fashion Group Foundation. Only two students were chosen in the Bay Area. The Scholarship Committee chose Shannon based on her portfolio and interview. They told Shannon that they were “very impressed with your achievements and commitment to the fashion industry.”
On Friday, December 1, 2006, the two scholarship winners were officially announced at the Fashion Group Foundation of San Francisco’s Annual Scholarship Fundraiser. The cocktail reception and silent auction benefits young design students. Academy of Art University hosted this event in The Gallery at 79 New Montgomery Street.

On Tuesday, November 14, 2006, the San Francisco Chapter of Fashion Group International hosted a panel discussion at the W Hotel and invited seven School of Fashion graduates who launched their collections during New York Fashion Week to display their garments during the event. The graduates were Quyen Nguyen, Li-Jen “Alan” Lee, Pablo Fernandez, Laurie Browne, Young Jun Ryu, Masamichi Matsushita and Susan Fort.
Fashion Group International is a global non-profit association for men and women in the fashion industries. Membership provides personal and professional development, trend and business information, networking opportunities and support for the Fashion Group Foundation Scholarship. Please visit their website to learn more at www.FGI.org