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Chair Letter

Intrinsic Being

Dear Students, Families, Faculty, Friends, and our SAIC and Fashion Communities,

Welcome to Fashion 2023: Intrinsic Being. The collections you will see tonight showcase the unique sensibilities and individual point-of-views of our advanced senior fashion design students. They are informed by active care and deeply engaged sustainability, and through collaborations across disciplines; they explore shifting identity, celebrate the domestic, probe the sensory, and each is a profound example of creating expression to navigate challenges. Each collection offers an invitation to imagine new ways of stepping into the world with a more delicate and nuanced journey forward. There is so much consideration and tenderness, offered as fashion, and as an opportunity to wear one’s fragility in celebration.

Our capstone runway show is taking over the historic Ballroom at the School of the Art Institute, and we want to thank the many individuals and teams at the school who are making this presentation possible. In addition, we are grateful for the support of the Driehaus Design Initiative, and for faculty Anke Loh and full-time visiting artist Carlo Gibson, who have led the Advanced Fashion Studio in the past year. Congratulations to the class of 2023, and welcome to our guests: enjoy!

Student Work

Intrinsic Being

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STUDENT WORK
PROGRAM circle-add
  • Fashion Body Builder Pathway
  • Fashion Design & Construction Pathway
  • Master in Fashion, Body and Garment
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  • 3D Embellishment
  • Accessory Design
  • Advanced Finishing
  • Capstone Fashion Studio; Senior Level Spine
  • Computer Imaging for Fashion Design
  • Costume Design Film & TV, Beginning or Advanced
  • Draping, Beginning, Multilevel, or Advanced
  • Fabrication For Fashion
  • Fashion Construction I/ Construction II
  • Fashion Intensive Portfolio
  • Fashion Photography
  • Footwear Design, Beginning or Advanced
  • Form in Fabric
  • Graduate Fashion Studio
  • Illustrated Poster / The Hook
  • Illustration – Objects of Fashion & Lifestyle
  • Illustration, Beginning, Multilevel or Advanced
  • Integral Fashion Studio; Sophomore Level Spine
  • Intermediate Fashion Studio; Junior Level Spine
  • Introduction to Fashion, Body, and Garments
  • Knitwear, Hand- & Machine
  • Manipulated Stitch
  • Masks & Mantles
  • Object, Artifact, No-nonsense
  • Runway Meets Runway
  • Sculptural Headwear / Advanced Millinery
  • Shape & Theory, Beginning or Advanced
  • Shaping of the Female Form / Next to Skin
  • Virtual Flat to Form, Beginning or Advanced

Scholarships and Awards

SAIC Fashion 2023

Bodybuilder Awards

Bodybuilder Award for Accessories/Headwear/Footwear
Owen Tate

Bodybuilder Award for Garment and Wearables
Mariana Espinosa

Bodybuilder Award for 2D Illustration/Photography/Digital Media
Cam Armstrong Smith

Bodybuilder Award for Sculpture/Installation
Phoebe Heng
HaoJun Li

Bodybuilder Award for Time-based and Performance
Ali Kushner

Bodybuilder Honorable Mentions:
Alexander LaValley/Pentabyte
Hannah Kim
Eric Lu

Millinery Awards

Raymond Hudd Millinery Award
Hannah Kim
Summer Han Wu
Ira Xinyu Zhang

DAKOtravail Worker Award
Lia Schnacke

M&S Schmalberg Award
Sarah Mahnke-Baum

JudithM. Millinery Supply Award
Coraline Liu

The Hat Magazine Award
Dave King

Sophomore Awards

Fashion Council Sophomore Scholarship
Arushi Mittal

The Marcia and Lester Novy Memorial Scholarship
Parker Keith Smith

The Morris & Rose Goldman Foundation Scholarship
Qian Peng

Gloria Omi Tsien Scholarship in Fashion Design
Giana Digaetano

Leora Comer Pogue Scholarship
Sixuan Li

Honorable Mentions
Isabel Talia Weiss
Qinjing Wang
Wuraola Omowumi Adeniji
Yu Gan

Junior Awards

Fashion Council Junior Award
Adrienne Joy Powell

Perry Ellis Scholarship
Alisia Medina

Ungaro Scholarship
Kaine Reese Bautista

The William Mollihan Scholarship
Tae Min Jeong

Portfolio Award
Adrienne Joy Powell
Tae Min Jeong
Alisia Medina

Fashion Jury Award
Mireya Barrientes
Ophelia Tucker
Maxine Wint

Honorable Mentions
Io Quincy Anderson
Jules Gourley
Tristan Scott Riggs

Senior Awards

Fashion Council Senior Award
Sky Shi

Cornelia Steckl Fashion Fellowship
Mariana Espinosa

The Shirley Schnackenberg Student Grant
Tianjian Xiao

Fashion Council FCDI (Diversity & Inclusion) Award
Caeli Harris

Post-Baccalaureate Award

Fashion Council Post-Baccalaureate Award
Kevin Brown

Graduate Awards

NicNac X Facility Award
Hai-Wen Lin

Fashion Council Graduate Fellowship
Seonyoung Lee
Minmin Han

Luminarts Graduate Fellowship
Rojae Li

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  • Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
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  • New Arts Journalism
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  • Built Environment
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  • Chicago
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  • Diaspora
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  • Dream
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  • Family
  • Gender
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  • Home
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  • Migration
  • Mundane
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  • Objects
  • Personal Narratives
  • Place
  • Play
  • Process
  • Queer
  • Representation
  • Ritual
  • Self
  • Social Engagement
  • Space
  • Speculative Futures
  • Systems
  • Time
  • Trauma
  • Truth
  • Alexander LaValley / Pentabyte
  • Ali Kushner
  • Alyssa Teal
  • Anaya Engineer
  • Sunny Gandy
  • Bingru Zhang
  • Caeli Harris
  • Cam Armstrong Smith
  • césar benavente
  • Cherin Kim
  • Florencia Cruz
  • Eric Garcia
  • Hannah Kim
  • Vienne Molinaro
  • HaoJun Li 李大牛
  • Haoze Zhou
  • Lenny Alves
  • Roy Zhu
  • Isabel Weiss
  • Jacqueline Schmidt
  • Jake Wobig
  • Unusua Lee
  • Juleda
  • kae kim
  • Kening Song
  • Kealia-Catherine Elemide
  • Kenny Nguyen
  • Lorielle Sinclair
  • Lucy Hsiao
  • Mads Reardon
  • Maria Jaxiry Aguilar
  • Mariana Espinosa
  • Mila Sall
  • Minmin Han
  • Owen Tate
  • Peicen Jiang
  • Peicen Jiang
  • Phoebe Heng
  • Baldwin Design
  • Rhea Singh
  • Ro Jae Li
  • Rever Li
  • Sammy Pallat
  • Sarah Mahnke-Baum
  • Sofi
  • Taemin Jeong
  • Tobias Lee
  • Tianjian Xiao
  • Tianyuan(Sky) Shi
  • Terry Luo
  • Eric Lu
  • Bonnie Xiaowen Bao
  • Ira Zhang
  • Xuan Zheng
  • Lainy Ya Liu
  • Chicago
  • Yilu Zhang
  • yuanhu
  • Yuanhao Zhang
  • Milo Zhao
  • Yukun Wang
  • YOYO Zheng
  • Yutian Deng
  • ZJ Pan
  • Zirou Zhang
  • Zo Roze

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