Tag: fashion student

  • Yaxuan Xu’s “Too Seen” Questions Who Has the Authority to Look

    Yaxuan Xu’s “Too Seen” Questions Who Has the Authority to Look

    Parsons knitwear designer Yaxuan Xu on Too Seen, a collection built from fur-like machine knits, vintage silks and elastic yarns that questions how Eastern women are seen.

  • Zoe Green Turns Self-Criticism Into Armour

    Zoe Green Turns Self-Criticism Into Armour

    Shenkar student Zoe Green on a cowhide and snakeskin garment that uses structure and flowing sleeves to show how self-criticism can protect and restrict.

  • Blending Realms: Phillipa Signorelli’s PERCEPTION Collection

    Blending Realms: Phillipa Signorelli’s PERCEPTION Collection

    Emerging Sydney-based fashion designer Phillipa Signorelli is quietly establishing herself in the Australian fashion scene with a thoughtful approach to design that merges imaginative concepts with innovative technologies. Her latest collection, PERCEPTION, presented as part of her Honours graduation from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), explores an evocative blend of dream-like states and digital aesthetics.…

  • Evelina Epp: How Chance and Choice Shaped Her Latest Collection

    Evelina Epp: How Chance and Choice Shaped Her Latest Collection

    When Evelina Epp talks about Destiny Lock, her MFA thesis collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology, she doesn’t describe it as just clothing. It’s a way of making sense of heartbreak, chance encounters, and the idea that there’s really no such thing as “bad timing.” Born in Kazakhstan to a family rooted in business,…

  • Runtan Du: Fashion as Storytelling and Worldbuilding

    Runtan Du: Fashion as Storytelling and Worldbuilding

    Fashion, at its core, is about storytelling, connecting human experiences, cultural histories, and personal identities through fabric and form. Emerging designer Runtan Du embodies this vision powerfully with his latest collection, “Undefined Deity.” A recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Du sees fashion not simply as clothing, but as a tool to explore complex, universal narratives of human…

  • FIT Designer Dian Jin Transforms Cosmic Themes into Sculptural Fashion

    FIT Designer Dian Jin Transforms Cosmic Themes into Sculptural Fashion

    At the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), emerging designer Dian Jin has unveiled a graduate collection titled Pale Blue Dot. This is an exploration of cosmic wonder, environmental fragility, and wearable sculpture. Inspired by NASA’s photograph taken at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan in 1990, the image shows Earth as a tiny pixel floating…