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SAIC fashion show to make its Modern Wing debut
The fashion program at SAIC remains something of a hidden gem at the school, perhaps because it exists within an artistic surfeit. But despite being unofficially classified as a…
February 7th, 2010
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Fashion Focus Chicago ‘09
F Newsmagazine attends Fashion Focus Chicago to see Dress Code 2009. The runway debut of top students from Chicago’s fashion design schools: The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, The Illinois Institute of Art–Chicago and The International Academy of Design & Technology Chicago.
November 23rd, 2009
Advice from a practical rational mindset
Hello. I’m a practical, rational student and today I’m voicing my thoughts against the world of fashion.
July 18th, 2005
Arts & Culture · fashion · Student Art
F Gallery
Illustrations by Royleyn Delacruz
May 2005
July 18th, 2005
Curiosity Cabinet: Inside the Fashion Resource Center
Many times, in mythmaking as well as commonly used contemporary idioms such as “curiosity killed the cat,” the knowledge factor gets overshadowed with negative consequences. Recent visits to SAIC’s Fashion Resource Center (FRC), sparked my quest into the roots and reputation of inquisitiveness.
July 18th, 2005
SAIC Awards and Achievements
Student wins Chicago Theatre Design.
July 18th, 2005
Field guide to the moustache
Today’s fashionable moustache is an individual look, dependent on the nature of the growth of the hair above your lip in terms of both texture and quantity. After at least three weeks of growth, you are ready to asses how you look and what style will make you look your best.
July 18th, 2005
So haute it hurts
SAIC students sweat and sew their way to the 71st annual fashion show
July 18th, 2005
Fashion Cover Illustrations by Shellie Fiiocca
May 2005
July 18th, 2005
Professor’s Pick
Jackie Kennedy at the Field Museum
December 26th, 2004
The Fashion of ‘Fusion Project’
There is something about performance, the wait for it to begin, the anticipation of the climactic event, and the audience interaction, all of which cannot be replicated in the environment of the still visual art exhibit. The same thing is true of fashion shows. When the music started at Fusion Project’s fashion show, Modification, the audience huddled around the catwalk, feeling the excitement from behind the curtain before it exploded on to the stage.
December 26th, 2004
Wicker Park Hipsters
The hipsters live in Wicker Park–everybody says so. You see the signs of them, the boutiques selling zoot suits in the window and the coffee shops that people go to late at night when they have a bohemian urge. It’s not essential that you be a hipster if you want to purchase the attire. In fact, most hipsters probably don’t shop in Wicker Park, and plenty of the customers at Filter wear J.Crew outfits; they go there because the coffee’s good and they probably have a crush on one or another of the hipster employees. I’m pretty sure they’re legitimate, but I suspect that they don’t live in Wicker Park.
November 26th, 2004
