Donghyuk Dan Kim is originally from Incheon, South Korea where he attended Kongju National University and graduated with a B.A. in Chemical Engineering. He earned his M.F.A. in Men’s Wear Design from the Academy of Art University and honed his skills as an assistant pattern maker with local designer Bacca da Silva. Donghyuk looked to vintage military uniforms and clothing from the American West for inspiration. He constructed his garments using wool, cotton, and leather in shades of olive green and dark brown.

Ashley Jung

Ashley Jung, B.F.A. Menswear Design, has interned at Garen Ford and speaks four languages. She created her menswear collection made of suede, leather, cotton twill, waterproof rain wear nylon and linen that she hand dyed.

Fayrouz Abi Assi

Fayrouz Abi Assi, M.F.A. Fashion Design, has a B.S. in Graphic Design, worked as a senior graphic designer at Phenicis in Lebanon, and interned with Gr.dano. She created her menswear collection using tweed, cashmere wool, wool suiting, wool flannel, selvedge chambray, suede, and goatskin.

Tell us about your inspiration?

Ashley: My inspiration started with human’s body muscle structure from an anatomy book. I was interested by so many beautiful shapes of muscles layering inside of our body, and it functions very differently for every single movement. This inspired me to think of playing with classic menswear details. My color inspiration is from a random black and white street picture of raining night of the city, and Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park paintings. I wanted to present my collection as a mix of dark and fresh, and soft and manly.

Fayrouz: Inspired by the American depression era and the shades, tones, and layers of Arab desert dwellers.

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Louie Greaves, MFA Menswear Design student has been chosen to be part of the judging panel for the Snapshot Scholar photo contest.

Greaves (who will be showing his first menswear collection this September at Fashion Week) will use his eye for style to help choose a winner from the top 20 finalists of the contest. Students and alumni of UC Berkeley and Stanford University photos in the five week contest which allowed them to vote on each other’s photos. After five rounds of voting, the panel of judges will choose a winner from the final 20. The winner will get $5,000 and a $2,000 endowment for their favorite department at their school.

It’s kind of like American Idol but without the singing…or a record deal…actually, it’s not really like that show.

Nonetheless, congrats Louie!

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Photos by Randy Brooke

Kenneth Ning, Menswear Design – The modern soccer thug attracted to fame inspired Kenneth, specifically the Champion Italian Soccer Team, Forza Azzurri. Patent leather from a soccer ball. Shiny fabric to repel the rowdy lifestyle. He was born in China and raised in Oakland, CA.

Kenneth is presently in New York working with Michael Kors.

Photos by Randy Brooke.

BFA Menswear Designer Kenneth Ning created a collection inspired by the modern soccer thug. The collection is a mix of sports and leisure for a lifestyle that is carefree and all about the World Champion Italian Soccer Team, Forza Azzurri. Kenneth used the build of a well-trained soccer player for his body shapes and the cunning attitude of the player comes through his collection. The colors are loud for the rowdy fan who causes a ruckus after the game, win or lose. The leather is shiny like a patent-leather soccer ball. Coated fabrics are incorporated to repel the harshness of the environment that this soccer thug is drawn to. Kenneth is from Oakland, California. MFA Fashion and Knitwear Designer Daniel Emir Armosilla created the knitwear for Kenneth’s collection.

Photos by Randy Brooke.

BFA Menswear Designer Chelsea Rae Snyder was inspired by the fusion of industrial and organic. She used architecture and nature in sourcing colors, textures and moods. Her collection is an example of sustainability as she combines technical, organic and eco-fibers throughout such as Alpaca from a local farm in Vacaville. She uses fabric that is hand-worked by spinning, weaving and felting, as well as hand-dyed using natural dye. Raised in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, Chelsea will be going to Antwerp, Belgium to work with designer Veronique Branquinho.

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.

Photos by Randy Brooke.

Stephanie Sauceda’s sharply tailored menswear collection was included in the Forbes.com menswear trend report and noted as having a “film noir impression” by Edge New York. Stephanie visited her Spanish roots drawing inspiration from armor and military. She based each look on a Spanish conquistador and hopes to return to Spain to pursue her fashion career.

Photos by Randy Brooke.

Pablo Fernandez, a native of Uruguay, had a two-page spread in the Spanish newspaper El Diario La Prensa who interviewed Pablo backstage before the show. They also put one of his looks on the cover of their Sunday, September 10th edition.

Pablo incorporated his fashion and knitwear design focus into an avant-garde collection inspired by the early-80s, vintage cartoons and WWI paraphernalia. Pablo was a 2004 CFDA Scholarship Award recipient. In May 2006, Pablo was awarded an internship at Louis Vuitton in Paris for 2007 after Christophe Girard, Deputy Mayor of Paris Responsible for Culture and Director of Fashion Strategy of the LVMH Fashion Group, met Pablo and viewed his portfolio. Pablo’s collection was showcased on the runway of the 24th Annual Macy’s Passport 2006 in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He accepted a position with Nice Collective here in San Francisco before moving to New York to work on a collection with his twin brother Ernesto who graduated from the School of Fashion two years earlier.