F sits down with local designer Anna Fong to discuss fashion design and her collaboration with TOYOTA’S Creative Lounge Chicago
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F Newsmagazine talks with Nick Cave, Professor and Chair of the Department of Fashion Design, as well as with some of the students showcasing their garments.
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Legendary couture milliner Philip Treacy brings his iconic hats to Neiman Marcus.
FASHION 2010 was an incredible runway extravaganza, comprised of a series of shows featuring looks from SAIC students, iconic couturiers, and one of the industry’s most influential new designers.
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Art marries fashion in SAIC’s Department of Fashion Design, and the school’s annual fashion show illustrates that — not only in terms of the show’s locale, but also in the hoards of fashion and art aficionados who pay up to $500 to see the avant-garde work of up-and-coming fashion designers.
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SAIC’s Fashion Design Department produces designers and collections of noteworthy caliber, benefitting from the School’s artistic philosophy of allowing inspiration from other departments to influence the designers’ concepts.
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A conversation with SAIC Fashion Design faculty member Katrin Schnabl, who recently costume designed DanceWorks Chicago’s performance of “The One Hundreds.”
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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…
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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.
Hello. I’m a practical, rational student and today I’m voicing my thoughts against the world of fashion.
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Illustrations by Royleyn Delacruz
May 2005
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.
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.
SAIC students sweat and sew their way to the 71st annual fashion show
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.
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.