There’s something about fashion shows that just never gets old. You feel like a kid in a candy shop and sometimes you really don’t know where to look because you’re torn between multiple moments that beckon your attention.
From the team backstage employing their artistry with hair and make up to the outstanding collections the design graduates produced, the show was a smashing success. I agree with Diana Vreeland that “fashion must be the intoxicating release from the banality of the world,” for fashion and style are a duet of inspiration and feeling that certainly distract from the dreary day. Once the runway is before you, you can’t help but be taken over by fashion. The Academy of Art University show was full of this kind of intoxication.
Working with black and ivory, Amy Bond’s intriguing collection was full of complex, sensuous shapes, particularly an ivory silk dress with a bustled hem.
Donghyuk Dan Kim gave military uniforms a wearable twist, combining oilcloth cotton shirts with tailored wool pants that mixed fabrics, most memorably in wool plaid pants and jackets with leather grid-like accents and stripes.
Kate Y. K. Lee’s layered wool and leather pieces, ranging from a luxe quilted leather jacket with a stand-up collar to pants and leggings, were a modern take on suiting.
Jade Juanyu Liu presented lightweight, menswear-inspired pieces crafted from Swiss bonded wool, as well as terrific vests and coast in a fur-like copper fabric that added texture and dimension.
Deanna Pei-Ju Lo worked leather into pleats, and also used two saturation of navy along with black and velvet blocks – a subtle take on color blocking and fabric mixing.
Music has a certain way of setting the tone – for a film, a night out, a road trip – and, of course, a fashion show. Each season, we walk away from fashion week, our heads filled with images of sartorial greatnessand all of the songs that accompanied said greatness down the runway. We are lucky enough to have an amazing DJ, Scott Ewalt, to create our show playlist each season. He has a talent for perfectly matching the mood of a collection to music – bringing together the visual and auditory senses to marvelous effect.
VPL by Victoria Bartlett – the underwear-inpsired label named after a major fashion faux-pas (Visible Panty Lines) – has turned out another stellar collection. There were jersey dresses that draped beautifully across the body, and silky separates that clung to all the right places. The collection also featured some amazing knitwear – and several of the pieces were worked on by one of our amazing students, Heather McDonald. She interned with the company over winter break, and worked on the Fall ’12 collection, which was presented last Saturday during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Take a look at the gorgeous futuristic knits below!
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House of 950. L-R: Alice Spies, Lauren Haut, Eric Holbreich, and Julien Charrier.
On Saturday, February 11th the House of 950 gave an innovative presentation at the Cue Art Foundation gallery in New York during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The House of 950 consists of a group of artists, three of which are designers: Eric Holbreich, Alice Spies and Lauren Haut, who attended Academy of Art University, and Julien Charrier. This wasn’t your typical runway show – instead, you were invited into the House of 950 as a guest.
Here’s a closer look at the hair and make-up from the Academy of Art University Fall ’12 Fashion Show! Our fabulous team from Aveda helped bring the beautiful vision to life. Make-up artists created a subtly smokey eye with soft brown and plum shadows and black liner, finishing the look with a few coats of mascara. And – though the eyes looked gorgeous – the lips truly stole the show. First, a layer of fuschia lipstick was applied, and then topped with an even brighter coat of gloss. And when we say gloss, we mean super gloss – this stuff was practically shellac. The bright lips added the perfect pop of color on the runway.
The hair had a definite ’60s feel. Stylists back-combed the models’ hair to create volume at the crown, and then slicked it back. The ends were tied and tucked under, creating a soft, rounded edge. The whole look was amazing and the girls looked so gorgeous – guess that’s why they’re models!
Jade Juanyu Liu was inspired by the French collage artist Damien Blottiere, known for his unique layering technique that creates shadows and empty space. She layered several fabrics, including wool, jersey and fur, to achieve the same effect.
Jeanette Au was inspired by Sergei Diagliav’sBallet Russe and the paintings of Leon Bakst, both of which influenced the texture, patterns, and color palette of the collection. She incorporated mohair, wool, synthetic yarns, and metallic threads into her knit fabrics.
Xiang Zhang was inspired by Plato’s philosophy that the highest form of beauty can be explained by principles of mathematics. He used Plato’s theory of the golden rectangle, in which the ratio of the long edge to the short edge equals the golden ratio, to determine the proportions of designs, as well as the number of stitches and their orientation within the pattern. He used cashmere, mohair, and silk throughout the collection.
For more from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall ’12, click here.
House of 950. L-R: Alice Spies, Lauren Haut, Eric Holbreich, and Julien Charrier.
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