Academy of Art University Graduation Fashion Show 2015

Student designers presented their final collections at the annual Academy of Art University Graduation Fashion Show on May 14, 2015, in San Francisco. The show included 21 collaborative menswear and womenswear collections created by students who studied fashion design, knitwear design, menswear design, technical design, textile design and jewelry/metal arts. Additionally, 12 fashion design and textile design students presented a 15-look capsule collection for Hervé Léger to celebrate the 30th anniversary of BCBG Max Azria brand. All in, 39 students presented collections at the show.

Meet the Designers

12 Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts students created a capsule collection for Hervé Léger, BCBG Max Azria Group:

M.F.A Fashion Designers: Geu Mi Lee, Melissa Kheng, Dora Li, Fei Li, Lindsey Trueman, Yibin Xu, Li Lai and Nina Hui (Nina Hui was selected by BCBG to participate in an internship with Hervé Léger)
B.F.A. Fashion Designers: Emma Xueling Cui, Novi Utami, Nomin Gantulga and Lauren Lusby.

Capsule collection for Hervé Léger:

A collaboration for Herve Leger by Academy of Art University Fashion Designers Emma Xueling Cui, Li Lai, Nomin Gantulga, Nina Hui, Melissa Kheng, Geu Mi Lee, Dora Li, Fei Li, Lauren Lusby, Lindsey Trueman, Novi Utami and Yibin Xu

Keith Gunning, B.F.A. Fashion Design presented a collection made entirely of neoprene, inspired by flamboyant designs of the late legendary London-based artist Leigh Bowery
Gyuwon Jeong, B.F.A. Menswear Design collaborated with B.F.A. Textile Design student Jimin A Kim; their collection was inspired by the Mexican Cholombian and South African Ndebele tribes
Yunseon Kim, B.F.A. Fashion Design collaborated with Carmen X Liu, B.F.A. Jewelry & Metal Arts; Kim drew inspiration from the shape and silhouettes of traditional Korean dress, hanbok, and Liu created a collection of elegant and brightly colored costume jewelry pieces
Livia Bianda, B.F.A. Menswear Design, her collection, constructed from lycra, mesh, and wool suiting material, was inspired by the uniforms and exaggerated silhouettes seen on football players
Gisel Ko, B.F.A. Knitwear Design, a painting of a girl skiing clad in traditional Korean dress sparked the inspiration for Ko’s graduation collection

Keith Gunning, B.F.A. Fashion Design

Gyuwon Jeong, B.F.A. Menswear Design and B.F.A. Textile Design student Jimin A Kim

Yunseon Kim, B.F.A. Fashion Design collaborated with Carmen X Liu, B.F.A. Jewelry & Metal Arts

Livia Bianda, B.F.A. Menswear Design

Gisel Ko, B.F.A. Knitwear Design

Linka Rowland, B.F.A. Fashion Design, reimagined fringe, adorning her wool, leather and neoprene garments with hundreds of white, pink, orange, yellow and black rabbit foot key chains
Dominic Tan, B.F.A. Menswear Design, collection is his interpretation of a Singaporean uniform, and is constructed from ice-dyed cotton blends in shades of pink
Eleonore L. Santos, B.F.A. Fashion Design, collaborated with B.F.A. Textile Designer Anna Metzel on a collection inspired by the work of figurative painter Francis Bacon
Gaia Giladi, B.F.A. Fashion Design, played with viewer’s perceptions of depth and movement by using unique fabrics, including 3D lenticular printed materials and a textile created by seaming together a variety of black and white striped fabrics
Damien Chandra, B.F.A. Fashion Design, was inspired by the work of figurative sculptor Willy Verginer

Linka Rowland, B.F.A. Fashion Design

Dominic Tan, B.F.A. Menswear Design

Eleonore L. Santos, B.F.A. Fashion Design, collaborated with B.F.A. Textile Designer Anna Metzel

Gaia Giladi, B.F.A. Fashion Design

Damien Chandra, B.F.A. Fashion Design

Cherng-Hann Lee, B.F.A. Menswear Design, collection was inspired by a Medieval suit of arms
Patricia Wijaya, B.F.A. Fashion Design, her family history of scoliosis was a source of inspiration for her collection; the center-curved seams on each garment mirror the shapes of scoliosis back braces
Xun Li, B.F.A. Menswear Design used translucent and buff-rubber silicone fabrics as overlays on black shirts and pants made from cotton twill, and accented collars, cuffs and fastenings with blue Thermoplastic Polyurethane
Karina Garcia, B.F.A. Fashion Design and B.F.A. Fine Arts double major, collaborated with Mariana Pazos, B.F.A. Textile Design, they were inspired by Georgia O’Keefe, Pearl Harbor and World War II uniforms
Amanda Manashi, B.F.A. Fashion Design, was inspired by Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard

Cherng-Hann Lee, B.F.A. Menswear Design

Patricia Wijaya, B.F.A. Fashion Design

Xun Li, B.F.A. Menswear Design

Karina Garcia, B.F.A. Fashion Design and B.F.A. Fine Arts double major, collaborated with Mariana Pazos, B.F.A. Textile Design

Amanda Manashi, B.F.A. Fashion Design

Jeremy Vu, B.F.A. Menswear Design, collaborated with B.F.A Knitwear Designer Lupita Ramirez, and Justin Lei Wang, A.A. Jewelry & Metal Arts, their collection, “Truly Outrageous,” takes a stylistic page from the 1980’s film Heathers and the animated television show Jem and the Holograms
Ye Kuang, B.F.A. Fashion Design collaborated with M.F.A. Jewelry & Metal Arts Designer Candy Hsinyu Chu; Kuang took inspiration from Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat’s sculpture “Incineration Line in Roskilde.” Chu constructed jewelry from vinyl tubing in a color palette inspired by Nordic summers
JC Munoz, B.F.A. Fashion Design & Textile Design, was inspired by aviation, specifically the fluidity of fighter jets
Ruone Yan, B.F.A. Menswear Design created her graduation collection with canvas that she dyed with oolong tea
Shuman Yao, B.F.A. Fashion Design constructed from rubber polyvinyl chloride (PVC), wool cashmere, polyester and denim, inspired by the sci-fi video game Anachronox