San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Knitwear Designer Diana Bustamante

Photos by Randy Brooke.

BFA Knitwear Designer Diana Bustamante was inspired by the different views of Antoni Gaudi’s vaulted ceilings, roofs and tiles and his emphasis on texture and shape. The colors were chosen from a detail of his ceramic work. Diana is from Arequipa, Peru, lives in San Francisco, CA, and hopes to move to Italy after graduation.

Video: San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 Diana Bustamante

San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Menswear Designer Mun Soo Kwon

Photos by Randy Brooke.

Vintage military uniforms inspired BFA Menswear Designer Mun Soo Kwon. He altered the traditional uniform and created unexpected draped silhouettes with rounded shoulders, inside-out lining details and custom epaulets. He excluded the obvious khaki and opted for fresher colors. Mun Soo is from Seoul, South Korea.

Video: San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 Mun Soo Kwon

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

San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Fashion Designer Oshrat Ben-Isaac

San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Fashion Designer Oshrat Ben-Isaac

Photos by Randy Brooke.

BFA Fashion Designer Oshrat Ben-Isaac found inspiration in basic geometric principals and shapes. The outline of the garment and flat patterns were created in the shapes of circles and squares creating interesting drapes when the fabric was put on the body. Oshrat also experimented with moving the neck and armholes from the traditional placement to alter the fall of the fabric when worn. Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, Oshrat is going to New York to work with Three As Four.

Video: San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 Oshrat Ben-Isaac

San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Fashion Designer Stephanie Garges

Photos by Randy Brooke.

BFA Fashion Designer Stephanie Garges compared modern and traditional Japanese style. She cross examined and slowly gradated each of her shapes to achieve the effect of a diagram, creating a formula to morph traditional shapes into unrecognizable modern silhouettes. Stephanie is from San Juan, Puerto Rico and been offered a position at Abercrombie & Fitch.

Video: San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 Stephanie Garges

San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Fashion Designer Jenny Schweitzberger

San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 BFA Fashion Designer Jenny Schweitzberger

Photos by Randy Brooke.

BFA Fashion Designer Jenny Schweitzberger is from Valier, Montana and used her home state as inspiration for her collection. She took away the rigid tailoring of 18th Century military jackets and incorporated Icelandic sheepskin to give the effect of fur trim and shrugs. Zac Posen selected Jenny to intern with him this summer in New York. She has also been offered a job by Abercrombie & Fitch.

She has accepted a position at Zac Posen and will stay in New York!

Video: San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 Jenny Schweitzberger

Video: San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007 Show Finale With Models

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San Francisco Fashion Show April 2007

Illustration by Gladys Perint Palmer.

BFA and MFA Graduates of the School of Fashion presented their runway collections in the biggest fashion show San Francisco has seen in years. A tent was constructed reminiscent of New York Fashion Week with over 1500 people at each of the three showings. The School of Fashion promotes its recent graduates with a show of this magnitude to showcase the young designers’ debut collections to an audience of local, national and international media, fashion industry and store executives, recruiters, designers, society, and HR executives, to help secure job placement and to launch their careers.