Welcome to In Retrospective Forethought
, the Cornell Fashion Collective’s 39th Annual Spring Runway Show. We invite you to enter into this mindscape of fashion, where you will watch our designers’ creations reminisce of the past while moving forward to forge new ideas. Our first level designers will take you through their revamp of the history of fashion, to the suggestion of its future by our second level designers. The show will end with our third and fourth level designers’ individual collections, which you can read about in the following pages.
About CFC
The Cornell Fashion Collective, formerly the Cornell Design League, is a student-run organization that provides members of the Cornell community with an outlet to express creativity in fashion, management, and event production. Since its founding in 1984, our organization presents a professional runway show each spring, featuring the talent of students who both design apparel and manage the operations of the show. CFC has grown to have over 180 members representing all 7 of Cornell’s undergraduate colleges and 2 graduate colleges.
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Executive Board
Devin Schneider, President
Anna Paaske, Creative Director
Sarah Kim, VP of Finance
Mattie Nguyen, Director of Design
1/2
Angela Lan, Director of Design
3/4
Drew Brown, Assistant Director of Design
Jasmine Chang, Director of PR
Nikolas Martin, Director of Graphics
Julia Roos, Model Coordinator
Executive Board
Chris Jang, Merch Chair
Cardinal Robinson, Merch Chair
Rani Sheth, Secretary Sam Curtis, Director of Photography
Nina Pofcher, Social Graphics Chair
Kimberly Phoenix, Faculty Advisor
Level 1: In Retrospect
Maria Serra Almveida Leite
Maya Abrol
Elliot Lee
Camila Tedesco
Ana Mocklar
Gabriel Wolf-Velarde
Lily Winagle
Mikayla Gutierrez
Mallory Watts
Kylie Gillen
Grace Crowell
Linda Trinh
Ryan Wang
Zoe Alvarez
Amanda Pinto
Nikolas Martin
Charlotte Chapman
Ashley Kim
Grace Downing
Roy Park
Ethan Drake
Isabella Schorn
Alexis McMurray
Marcus McDermott
Level 2: Forethought
Drew Brown
Mattie Nguyen
Sadie Kaufman
Lila Frost
Iasia Henderson
Zada Stuart
Jane Dexter
Jack Dobosh
Mia Bachrack
Cleah Dyer
Raquel Coren
Jianing Zhao
Music by Danel DonaevaLevel 3 Collections
Beckett Fine, Scratch
Ashlyn Lee, Quiddity
Cardinal Robinson, Chris Jang, Vacant
Rani Sheth, Cut Out
Andrea Cheon, A Perpetual State of Introspective Flux
Andy Kim, Curves & Lines
Nancy Wang, Instrument of Illusion
Frey Ranaldo, Androgyny and Anonymity
Level 4 Collections
Mel Harlie Miller, In the Absence of Scarlet
This final year collection accompanies a study on the paradigm of sex and violence throughout classic cinema; and, the relative degrees of femininity. Allow your imagination to roam along themes of curiosity, temptation, subversion, crimes of passion, corruption, distortion… Classic cinema has, since the beginning, glorified patterns surrounding violence, enabling a rather seductive nature and ambience. This is where her research begins.
Maisie McDonald, Convergence by Play
Experimental knitwear designer who plays with color, soft sculpture, and unique textures
Yuchen Jessie Jiang, Recognization
Yuchen Jessie Jiang has interests in couture womenswear and virtual fashion, and hopes to integrate in her American Chinese cultural background, along with her passions in graphic design, photography, and fine art. Her design philosophy is to push people to accept themselves in whatever form that means to them. Through her clothing, she is taking the steps to find and create her own identity, free from societal standards and expectations.
Level 4 Collections
Nadine El Nesr, The Day is a Dream, The Night is Real
Nadine is a high-fashion luxury designer creating innovative pieces that seamlessly blend techniques of sculpting, art-making, draping, and design practices. Her latest collection is inspired by the captivating allure of the night and incorporates a sleek sportswear aesthetic blended with an avant-garde twist. With unwavering attention to detail and a drive to push boundaries, each piece is a stunning representation that reflects her unique perspective and vision, curated to leave a dramatic and lasting impression.
Alli H Park, Second Skin
Inspired by the cyclical relationship between feminine freedom and lingerie, Second Skin aims to re-contextualize the skin through representation of the dynamic struggle for autonomy suffused by love, lust, betrayal, rejection, loneliness, and alienation in the truth.
Those bearing feminine bodies are forced into a narcissistic relationship with society, by society. Those who defy are judged. Those who conform are rewarded with a sickly “love,” consisting of obsession, objectification, violation.
Embrace effortful beauty: the perfect truth is gained by clawing through the dirt and the muck of hypocrisy, control, and social acceptance, the opiate of the masses.
Level 4 Collections
Katherine Hogan, The evolution and distillation of 1950s era fashion: in comparison and contrast of the New Look
Katherine plans to pursue a career in bridal following her graduation this year, so for her final collection She has designed a line of bridal wear. The collection consists of 6 pieces and features hand stitched appliqués, embellishments, and beadwork. The inspiration stems from the 1950s shifts in fashion, and the evolution to modern looks.
Aidan Collins, Gregowicz
His menswear collection—combining American Western motifs with European refinement—is solely composed of leather, silk, and wool. Many of the garments experienced a series of chemical treatments to impart specific aesthetic finishes. Dedicated to Collins’ grandfather.
Creatives
Alexandria Fennell
Ariel Zheng
Daniel Newman
Ellie Park
Erin Choi
Erin Yoon
Grace Myers
Isabella Chung
Kyle Lau
Liam Liao
Olivia Santos Huertas
Omar Leon
Oscar Callamari Abrams
Pat Li
Prisha Singhal
Ruth Kim
Ryan Issa
Sakeef Kibria
Sarah Smith
Shea Kinader
Susan Cook
Tanya Fan
Wen Yu Chen
Will Ritter
Yoona Oh
Business Ops
Aleks Cornforth
Angela Chung
Anjali Kumar
Ashlyn Dumaw
Ben Gleeman
Brianna Lewin
Camille van Seventer
Clarke Hicks
Domenic Varma
Elizabeth Friedberg
Eric Ahn
Felice Cheng
Gabrielle Sorgie
Inah Jung
Inah Jung
Janella Clarke
Jas Kan
Jasmine Chang
Jilian Andreesen
Kallen Paige
Madelyn Yu
Madison Jones
Maria Alexopoulos
Marilyn Ung
Mason Cuza
Michaela Kroll
Mika Cassou-Souvre
Nia Williams
Ramyanee Mukherjee
Rosie George
Ruth Beinhacker
Sid Dahiya
Tabitha Mueller
Thami Hamzane
Zoe Rukowsky
Sponsors
Our show would not be possible without the generous contributions of many; we cannot thank our sponsors enough for providing members of our organization with an outlet to express and share their creativity. We would like to recognize the following sponsors:
Lindsey and Jeff Boyd
The Neborak Family
Joel and Connie Andreesen
Samantha Chang Wykoff
Daniel and Susanne Hogan
Amanda Teitler
Elizabeth O’Neill Otero
Tim and Esther Paaske
Scott Pofcher
Eric Roos
Niccole Siegel Kroll
Stella Chen-Jung Li
Gwen Whiting
Eric Blair-Joannou
Lynn Kroll
Brand and Evan Drake
Michelle Dowling Johnson
Susan Roos
Frances Kozen
Amola Bagri
Michelle and Andrew Schneider
Kimberly Phoenix
Lauren M Sweder
Mary Lynch
Laurine Sieminski
