AcademyofArtUniversity 2011FashionWeek Preview

Six students from Academy of Art University launched their show in New York Fashion Week on Feb.11,2011. These students are from all over the world, which bring in various fashion elements.
<link to the show: http://www.academyart.edu/fashionshow/2011-02-11_new_york.html>

(one of my favoriate designers,Jonathan David Baker)

The show started with a piece of wool jersey hooded dress by a California designer, which inspired by a water diving bird. This sort of obvious symbols fulfilled all the other five collections. Such as nomads, Japanese underground culture, Victoria era style and so on. Another interesting things was that all the designers chose to use the natural, organic and comfortable drapery to make their design, like wool, cotton and voile. Overall, the style for this show was diversity and pursuing human comfort. We could catch some very excellent elements through this show.

The clipping of some pieces are simple but multi-layering. Such as one of Minha Yoon’s design, silk twill and chiffon dress with silk twill draped corset, which makes people elegant and lively. Jonathan David Baker’s style is not the simple one, but also impressive, especially the cotton voile pleated dress with shibori knit jacket. This piece really shines my eyes when the model comes out. It’s really a good example for showing the mix of thick knit coat with voile dress. Otherwise, the white color makes more sense of Japanese cute style. The wool gabardine pant with leather top and wool leather vest also is one of my favorites of this show. Designer Aura Taylor chooses the wool fabric to present the popular element light tan, then the clipping of this piece is really fantastic but low-key, which can make people elegant and fashionable, but not too much.

It also have some disadvantages, such as the designers are timid and afraid of trying more, which means most of the garments are too normal, no enough passion. The color-using has the same problem. Black is classic, because it’s safe enough. But if too much, it will be boring. We need some bright and energy colors!

In all, for a student’s fashion show, there’s no doubt that it’s successful. But how to attract more people to pay attention, young designers need more release, brave and just do it.
<photoed by Academy of Art University, Fashion Department>