Fashion '19 Alchemy (Seniors)

Exhibition Guide

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alchemy Fashion Show Run of G R A D UAT I N G J U N I O R S ( I N O R D E R O F S H OW )

FLOOR 10: JUNIOR & POST BACC INSTALLATIONS

J I N G WA N G , K AT E R I N A A N N U N ZI ATO, YA N W E N , A B I G A I L S H U T E , M I M I B R E V E S , P YO H O N G G R A D UAT I N G S E N I O R S ( I N O R D E R O F S H OW )

Angelina Lee Blurred Existence

Collaborators n/arlet Le (BFA 2018ar: Scarlet Le (BFA 2018) @scarletlex Graphic Design: Austin White (BFA 2018) @austinwhite.info

Nancy Zhu In Between

Collaborator Prints: Ha Eun Chang

FA 2018) @austinwhite.info

Collaborators Footwear (Sneakers): Swar Sahgal Footwear (Boots): Sarwarish Singh

Adreain Guillory Ancestral Prayers

Collaborators Jewelry: Meagan Lee of (iaME) Shoes: Sarwarish Singh Manipulation Assistance: Kendall Schamel

Si Wu Unknown

Shaoyi Jiang Hi, Anxious Me!

Collaborator

Accessories: Boyoung Nam

F LOOR 2 : BODY- B U I LDE R I N STALL ATION

Andrea Montoya

Collaborator Footwear: Li Kang

Ni Una Mas/Not One More

Collaborators Patchwork: Kelsey Denvir, Carrie Ni, Kendall Schamel Knitwear: Heather Morales Accessories: Priscilla Connelly Footwear: Sarwarish Singh Soundscape: Aspen Stanley

Spoken Word: Meli Nava

Chloe Park From the Swimming Pool to the Snow

Collaborators Headwear: Samuel Snodgrass Accessories: Claire Hogan Textile: Naomi Powers

Jung Eun Choi someday the sun will come out

Xinyi Lin Nice to Meet You

F E AT U R E D ARTISTS Eve Adami Sky Bernard Calla Bordie Page Burow Troy Derks Caroline Feyling Tara Froehlich Amanda Germolec Hanna Gibson Ava Grannan Danielle Grouse Meilun He Chess Hendrich Ariana Hocking Jiayi Hu Shaoyi Jiang

Sarah Forêt Grandma’s House

F LOOR 9 : R U NWAY S HOW

Chenxi Feng Born as Summer Flowers

Claire Lyons Wrapped Up

Collaborator Textiles: Gibran Melvina

P O S TB ACC A L AU R E AT E Marina Chen Danielle Grouse Meilun He Mengyi Qin Jue Wang Yiwei Wu

Richard Park EnhancING

Jordan Quant Melissa Sanecki Sofiia Slynko Edna St. Louis Jin Wook Song Valeria Watson Myung Hyun Woo Myra Xu Alyssa Zhan

Justin Wong Diving for Pearls

Myia Esper Madeline Felauer Lisa Gaedike Haley Goldberg L Hawley Catherine Hong Nishka Jiandani Alexa Kudrak Rachel Martini

Grant Karpin Daria Kidd Boowon Kim Chloe Kucirka Alexa Kudrak Victoria Landau Kexin Liu Claire Lyons Daniela Triana Roxy McHaffey Olivia Nash Chloe Park Eun Pyo Hong Adela Ramirez Rose Rodriguez Swar Sahgal Kendall Schamel

Goldie Schmieldeler Jiawei Shao Sarwarish Singh Aaron Sobetski Edna St. Louis Kenna Stark

Katie Isabella Svehla Nate Velazquez Audrea Wah Hayden Wentworth Yiwei Wu Nancy Zhu

Installation designed and built by Capstone course Spatial Habitats, with lecturer Jackey Cave and students: Calla May Bordie Jessica Lin Page Burow Rudradaman Singh Jessica Cevallos Isabel Sola Gaurangi Desai Pratyush Swarup Nick Garcia Juqi Wang Morgan Hill Katie Wittenberg Aichi Hsu Chubin Zhang Li Kang

M E Z Z AN I N E : F RC I N STALL ATION

Collaborators Accessories and Embellishments: Page Burrow Textile Treatments: Grace Wells

Collaborators Accessories: Julia Sells Footwear: Xu Chen

F LOOR 1 : SOPHOMOR E I N STALL ATION

Sarp Akdag Eliana Batsakis Frida Benitez Blaire Brown Julie Chu Cat Derousse Wonho Do Faviola Anaya Esquivel Tara Froehlich

Gianna Gaspar Ava Grannan Elaine Greiner Helen Gu Nicole Holmberg Jiayu Hu Grant Karpin Bora Kim Lia Krilis Yan Li

Fei Lin Yinyi “Effy” Liu Isabella Mao Lorea Roman Matosas Stephanie Nguyen Dawson O’Keefe Sammy Pallat Kat Pitre Adela Ramirez

Brenna Schaefers Kendall Schamel Jiawei Shao Michelle Suh Sisi Tang Janette Torres Hope Vaughan Yiyan Wang Ana Wu Chubin Zhang

alchemy

Yilin She Anatta– (no self)

JUNIORS Kayla Antonevich Alexandra Avery Isabella BlewettRaby Katie Craymer Jacqueline Difilippo Ellis Erisman

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in order to achieve the desired level of beauty.

the coin. In this collection, I am pointing out how much a person must persevere and sacrifice

the potential degradation of human value and individuality. However, that is only one side of

more prevalent. Many denounce the pursuit of enhancing exterior appearance, worrying about

Bodily improvements, including health clubs, gyms and body sculpting surgeries are becoming

plastic surgery and make-up, have emerged as a thriving industry in the present day markets.

My collection is about enhanced beauty and bodily improvement. Beauty enhancements, like

ENHANCING

Richard Park

Si Wu U N K N OW N

The concept behind my collection tells the story of my father and me, expressing my impressions of him in my memory from early childhood up to recently. At the same time, I leave the question to the society and myself. My collection presents my changing attitude about the character “father� in my life.

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Sarah Forêt G R A N D M A' S H O U S E

The sun beams through the window, filtering through lace curtains. Staring up at the ceiling, fan blades whirl in hypnotic synchronicity. The gathered pile of the rug beneath me conforms to my body under its weight. Aromas of supper cooking waft over the air from kitchen. Moments pass as steadily as the grandfather clock’s tick-tocks resound through the hallway.

Time makes these walls feel smaller. At what point does a home become just a house? Grandma’s House is about the history and memories engraved within the furniture and objects in our homes that connect us to the nostalgia of time gone by.

The comfort and solace we find within our own living space transforms into our reflection that bears witness to our most vulnerable moments. Home is a safe haven. This collection reminisces on the mystification of my youth, spent in the cozy sunroom of my grandmother’s home nestled in the Bible Belt of rural Alabama. The state of our nation today compels me to return to the childlike curiosity, wonder, tenderness, and splendor I enjoyed in my grandmother’s home.

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them with joy.

encounter in life, and then accept

me to embrace all the possibilities I

believing that Buddhism is a guide for

feeling of embracing. In the end,

provide warmth, to transcend the

knitted materials and wool applique

through this exploration. All the

and itchy, to convey my struggle

humans and nature, but it also is rough

scent of nature to mark the unity of

yarn weaving in between spreads a

Knitted hemp twine with thick soft

exploring the meaning of my belief.

This collection serves as my process of

matter how hard I chant or meditate.

suffering does not get resolved, no

believing. It seems to me that all my

started to lose faith in this power of

turning point for me. However, I

year. At the time I thought it was a

proclaim myself a Buddhist earlier this

enlightenment. I had the ceremony to

to help people find the way to

Buddha Shakyamuni expressed words

became Buddha. After his awakening,

death with benevolence, the One

believe. Having experienced life and

above all humans, as some may

educator but never a greater being

Shakyamuni has been an extraordinary

at a rather young age. Buddha

what it means to believe in Buddhism

devout Buddhists, I started to question

Growing up with parents who are

A N AT TA ( N O S E L F )

Yilin She

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happy - yet inside, I still feel as if I fall short.

person. I feel like a wrapped-up present that excites the people around me, making them

intricate and extravagant clothing to go out every weekend, I feel like a brand new

my surroundings. In my head and mind I am not enough, but when I dress myself in

I always felt that I needed more in order to be grounded, and at the least, equivalent to

WRAPPED UP

Claire Lyons

Xinyi Lin N I C E TO M E E T YO U

“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” — The Little Prince Everyone once experienced a sense of wonder and childishness, but at the time when we reach our adulthood, we lost beautiful qualities like innocence and rawness when we face hundreds of social rules and massive living pressures. Adults tend to always forget how to enjoy themselves and listen to their own voice. In this collection, I try to bring myself back to the fearless little girl who was always appreciative to life and always have a pure heart. I combine process like knitting and weaving to bring more playful textures and intuitively play with various colors and materials.

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journey, regardless of gender.

collection is unbounded by gender, as we are all on this

prejudices of what is considered “normal.” As such, my

feeling intimidated by the notion of rejection due to societal

belonging and to exist before the eyes of the world while

vulnerable yet conflicting emotions that signal our desire for

the finish line. I designed this collection to evoke a series of

incidents, and ever-changing emotions, we all strive to reach

become who you truly are. Through the combination of time,

yourself – the bravery it takes to accept oneself and to

woman, my collection focuses on the concept of finding

process it took for Lilli Elbe to become the first transgender

history. Although the novel is about the significance of the

novel that tells the story of the first transgender woman in

The starting point for my collection was The Danish Girl, a

BLURRED EXISTENCE

Angelina Lee

Chenxi Feng B O R N A S S U M M E R F L OW E R S

My collection, Born as Summer Flowers, reflects the “Wang Hong” phenomenon that has evolved and permeated into social media, commercial products and daily life throughout the past five years in China. Lavishly displaying their beauty and luxurious lifestyle has become a daily routine for certain Internet “celebrities.” This message is being conveyed to younger generations, who may not recognize what is valuable in themselves, and what is real or not real behind the 2-D images of luxury. Repeating ruffles and the pink and purple hues represent stereotypical images of what is “considered” beautiful. The imagery of flowers is influenced by a Chinese proverb, “Every child is a flower to their motherland.” This collection represents my hopeful aspiration for all of us to live within the true image of ourselves.

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speaking out against what is allowed in this world.

blame those in charge, but we must take responsibility for not

not objects and women need protection now. It is easy to

older and disposable. My collection proclaims that humans are

reflects a heartbreaking transition from young and pure to

occasions, like first communions. Combining the two narratives

and killed. I also incorporate elements of religion and special

specifically because they are among those most often targeted

commenting on the lack of laws to protect factory women,

genocidal act of terrorizing and murdering women. I am

movement in Juarez, Mexico that exposes and opposes the

Ni Una Mas means not one more, the name of a powerful

N I U N A M A S/ N O T O N E M O R E

Andrea Montoya

Chloe Park F R O M T H E S W I M M I N G P O O L TO T H E S N OW

From the Swimming Pool to the Snow brings together the memories I have of Singapore and Chicago, two places I identify as home.

I remember Singapore as a humid place of eternal summer, with swimming pools and beaches, as well as the torrential rains of monsoon season. Chicago, on the other hand, has always been cold and dry in winter, with the wind, the snow, the lake that freezes, and the salt on the streets that always leaves white stains on your shoes. Travelling back and forth between the two throughout my four years in college, and adjusting between the drastic weather differences, became the main inspiration for my collection. I attempt to be prepared for both, but ultimately am prepared for neither, balanced uncomfortably in the grey area. It is an investigation into my identity, and in creating my collection I hope to come to terms with the hybrid of different weathers and places that I must call home.

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“Hi, anxious me! I accept and embrace you!”

to recognize myself. Instead of fleeing away, I would like to say,

up inside me. My anxiety opens a window that I peer through

my anxiety returns, I don’t want to ignore the feelings tangled

my love for fashion coexists with uncertainty and fear. Yet as

crossroads of my ideals and the reality of the fashion industry,

I feared the profit-oriented relationships that prevail. At the

expense of clean water, air, and fundamental human rights.

I noticed the pursuit of profit, success, and beauty at the

conspire to challenge the purity of my own fashion ideals.

I began to realize how the realities of the fashion industry

through design, colors and materials became my pure voice.

class three years ago. In the process of communicating

quietly. I didn’t try to speak up until I entered my first fashion

others, I’d observe my surroundings and other human beings

As a timid person who often feels a bit more anxiety than

HI, ANXIOUS ME!

Shaoyi Jiang

Adreain Guillory A N C E S T R A L P R AY E R S

In the African American community, when we worship, it is otherworldly and can feel like a call back to our roots. An outer body experience or actually an inner body experience connecting us to our self, to our ancestors.

Transporting us across the sea of time. Gospel music lifts me up and I feel the need to worship even when there's stillness. I find my body unable to stand still. Moving and swaying as if it was trying to tell me something. Ancestral Prayers is rooted in connection and explores what it means to be tied to something unknown to us. The unknown could be familiar.

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there is always a handful of cheer ready to shine its light.

But no worries,

garment wet and heavy.

The wind is shifting the fabric, the rain is making the

but to stand in the middle of the heavy rain.

rainstorm and had no other choice,

This collection represents a person, who happen to meet a

One day the sun will come out.

But however long the rain pours it doesn’t matter.

Damp, Wet, Humid.

Sometimes it would rain for the entire week.

You will never know until tomorrow comes.

but it might suddenly change into a rainy, cloudy weather.

The weather forecast predicts tomorrow will be sunny,

Life works like the weather.

S O M E DAY T H E S U N W I L L CO M E O U T

Jung Eun Choi

Justin Wong DIVING FOR PEARLS

Concerned with the loss of collective memory and anxious about the imminent disappearance of Hong Kong identity, a nostalgic office worker attempts to travel back in time to Hong Kong’s nomadic fishing village. While diving through time portals to various points in the city’s history, his wardrobe is disfigured, and he finds himself lost in a wet market. “Diving for Pearls” hyperbolizes the act of nostalgia through this imagined narrative of the sentimental office worker. The tailored wardrobe is warped through time, and through a whirlwind bricolage, fuses with materials from the wet market and the fishing village.

The collection is a series of double exposures, where encapsulated spaces (both real and imagined) develop a new hybrid language of dressing. Simultaneously, the collection poses the question to locate and re-evaluate where this postcolonial symptom of nostalgia comes from. Through strategic cutting and draping around the contours of the body, images of conventional garments are superimposed on one another. Garments start to lose their expected functions and morph into new meanings, yet by maintaining certain details, the pieces retain the memory of what they used to be, echoing the fundamental nature of sentimentality. A curved slash on a trouser leg transforms it into a raglan silhouette. Deconstructed trompe l’oeil garments emerge from seams and wrap around the body, providing alternative methods of wearing. The visuals of spatial synthesis are evoked through the clash of traditionally masculine fabrics—wool gabardine and twills, with the artifice and irreverence of latex, resin, and rubber. Through techniques of hand dyeing and silkscreen printing, corporate browns and greys are jolted with shades of electric yellow, neon red, sage green, and pale lilac. Lush silk velvets are given ombré and devoré treatments, encapsulating a phantom image of the imagined home.

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the flow between certain and uncertain.

my collection, I aim to capture a sense of slowness in life and

relationship between the wearer and the clothes. Throughout

changeable interactions help to build up the personal

each piece provides certain security for the wearer and the

my intuition. By giving space to both the body and garments,

unexpected surprise during the making process by following

predetermined outcomes, I cherish ephemeral moments and

currents energy to create mood. Rather than focusing on

believe something flows in between certain and uncertain

and space, and the sense of intuition and imperfection. I

artist, Toko Shinoda, I’m exploring the in-between moments

the Butoh dancer, Kazuo Ohno, and Japanese ink painting

Life is a flow and everything changes all the time. Inspired by

IN BETWEEN

Nancy Zhu