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The capstone runway show is once more taking over the historic Ballroom at the School of the Art Institute. Our heartfelt thanks go to the many individuals and teams at the School without whom this presentation would not be possible, and to the partners that lend their expertise for tonights’ presentation. A special acknowledgement goes to faculty members Anke Loh and Pam Vanderlinde, who have led the collection development in the Advanced Fashion Studio in the past year, and to the guest artists and designers who further enhanced the senior curriculum: Maria Beniaris, Mariana Espinosa, Johnny Diamandis, Jen Plumridge, Gerry Quinton, and Don Yoshida. 

Last fall we welcomed into our studios fashion illustrator Guiller Huerta, who gave workshops on the potential of exploring AI in illustration, and couturier Jerome Dillinger, who presented items of exquisite tactile craftsmanship, shaping and embellishing couture garments exclusively done by hand. Central to fashion is exploring and innovating through technology and materiality, and their potential to capture the feeling of the time. The collections you will see tonight present a rich tapestry of themes revolving around the transformative nature of materials and narratives, water, explorations of deliberately repurposed materiality, and resilience and adaptation in the face of external pressures. Each collection takes you on its passage. Congratulations to the fashion capstone class of 2024! 

A warm welcome to our guests: enjoy tonight’s runway presentation!

Katrin Schnabl,
Sage-Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Fashion Design

Student Work

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STUDENT WORK
PROGRAM circle-add
  • Fashion Body Builder Pathway
  • Fashion Design & Construction Pathway
  • Fashion History & Critical Writing
  • Master in Fashion, Body and Garment
  • Post-baccalaureate Program in Fashion, Body and Garment
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  • 3D Embellishment
  • Accessory Design
  • Advanced Costume Design for Film and TV
  • Advanced Fashion Studio 2
  • Advanced Finishings and Detail Seminar
  • Advanced Footwear Design
  • Advanced Materials and Fabrication Studio
  • Advanced Shape and Theory in Garments
  • Advanced Virtual Flat to Form
  • Artist/Stylist – Fashion in Art
  • Beginning Fashion Illustration
  • Computer Imaging for Fashion Design
  • Costume Design in Film and TV
  • Critical Perspectives in Fash/Body/Grm
  • Defining Contemporary Dress
  • Design Studio II & III
  • Dress and Society
  • Fabrication for Fashion
  • Fashion Construction and Design V
  • Fashion Construction I, II, & III
  • Fashion Design I, Fashion Design II, Fashion Design III
  • Fashion Intensive Portfolio
  • Fashion Photography
  • Footwear Design
  • Form in Fabric
  • Graduate Fashion Design Studio
  • Hand Knitwear Design
  • Head Space – Advanced Millinery
  • History of Dress
  • Illustration – Objects of Fashion and Lifestyle
  • Intermediate Fashion Studio
  • Introduction to Fashion, Body, and Garment
  • Manipulated Stitches
  • Masks and Mantles
  • Multi-Level Illustration
  • Multi-Level Knitwear
  • Multi-Level Knitwear – Machine Structures
  • Objects/Artifacts and No Nonsense
  • Production Design for Theater and Film
  • Redefining Edges
  • Sculptural Headwear
  • Seminar – Professional Practice I & II
  • Shape And Theory In Garments
  • Sophomore Seminar – Interdisciplinary
  • Supply and Surplus
  • The Hook – Anatomy of a Comic Book Cover
  • The Illustrated Poster
  • The Shape of Contemporary Dress
  • The Shaping Of The Female Form
  • Transformation and Spectacle
  • Virtual Flat to Form

Scholarships and Awards

SAIC Fashion 2023

Bodybuilder Award for Accessories/Headwear/Footwear
Cherin Kim

Tied for second:
Possum Yang
Xiaowen Bao

Bodybuilder Award for Garment and Wearables
Coby Dean Skjerven

Tied for second:
Giovanna Maria Randazzo
Kit Elizabeth Jones

Bodybuilder Award for 2D Illustration/Photography/Digital Media
Terry Luo
Sam Hayosh

Bodybuilder Award for Sculpture/Installation
Kai Elijah McAliley / MechaLilly

Bodybuilder Award for Time-based and Performance
No submissions

Award for Fashion Writing
No submissions

Millinery Awards (live judging)

Raymond Hudd Millinery Award
Laleh Schaeffer
Parker Smith
Madeline Dittmer

DAKOtravail Worker Award
Cj Poku

M&S Schmalberg Award
Dave King

Judith M. Millinery Supply Award
Tina Tong

The Hat Magazine Award
Safo-Orah Agoro

Sophomore Awards

Fashion Council Sophomore Scholarship
Thea Andersen
Emeline Turner

The Marcia and Lester Novy Memorial Scholarship
Madden Pilkerton

The Morris & Rose Goldman Foundation Scholarship
Maicah Cabello

Gloria Omi Tsien Scholarship in Fashion Design
Vincent Kung

Leora Comer Pogue Scholarship
Presley Grace Baldwin

Honorable Mentions
Zeyang (Ada) Xu
Isabelle Howard
Jun Chen
Sofia Salinas
Yoyo Zheng
Owen Tate

Junior Awards

Fashion Council Junior Award
Raola Adeniji
Isaiah Allen

Perry Ellis Scholarship
Parker Smith

Ungaro Scholarship
Jake Wobig

The William Mollihan Scholarship
Isabelle Weiss

Portfolio Award
Parker Smith

Fashion Jury Award
Kiki Peng
Donnie Laux

Portfolio Award Honorable Mentions
Raola Adeniji
Donnie Laux
Isabel Weiss

Senior Awards

Fashion Council Senior Award
Tristan Riggs

Cornelia Steckl Fashion Fellowship
Maxine Wint

The Shirley Schnackenberg Student Grant
Jules Gourley

Fashion Council FCDI (Diversity & Inclusion) Award
Shuwen Yang

Post-Baccalaureate Award

Fashion Council Post-Baccalaureate Award
June Kim

Graduate Awards

NicNac Award
Shu Wang

Facility Award
Zj Pan

Luminarts Graduate Fellowship
Peicen Jiang

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DEGREE circle-add
  • Master of Architecture
  • Master of Arts
  • Master of Design
  • Master of Fine Art
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  • Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
  • Art and Technology Studies
  • Art Education
  • Art Therapy and Counseling
  • Ceramics
  • Design for Emerging Technologies
  • Fashion, Body and Garment
  • Fiber and Material Studies
  • Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
  • Low-Residency
  • New Arts Journalism
  • Painting and Drawing
  • Performance
  • Photography
  • Printmedia
  • Sculpture
  • Sound
  • Visual and Critical Studies
  • Visual Communication Design (Graphic Design)
  • Writing
MEDIUM circle-add
  • Academic Essays
  • Animation
  • Architecture
  • Case Studies
  • Ceramics
  • Coding
  • Curriculum
  • Design
  • Fiber
  • Film/Video
  • Garment
  • Installation
  • Journalism
  • New Media
  • Painting
  • Performance
  • Photography
  • Print/Multiples
  • Programs/Public Projects
  • Research
  • Sculpture
  • Site Specific Work
  • Social Practice
  • Sound
  • Text-based Work
  • Textile
  • Virtual/Augmented Reality
  • Web-based Work
  • Works on Paper
  • Writing
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  • Absurdity
  • Archive
  • Belonging
  • Body
  • Borders
  • Built Environment
  • Capitalism
  • Chicago
  • Craft
  • Diaspora
  • Digital Culture
  • Dream
  • Ecology
  • Family
  • Gender
  • Histories
  • Home
  • Identities
  • Intimacy
  • Justice
  • Language
  • Materiality
  • Memory
  • Migration
  • Mundane
  • Nature
  • Objects
  • Personal Narratives
  • Place
  • Play
  • Process
  • Queer
  • Representation
  • Ritual
  • Self
  • Social Engagement
  • Space
  • Speculative Futures
  • Systems
  • Time
  • Trauma
  • Truth
  • Alex Lee
  • Alexandra Seward
  • Alisia Medina
  • Anastasia elektra
  • Anika Sharma
  • AZUL JADE GUTIERREZ
  • Cherin Kim
  • Chicago
  • Chicago
  • Dongyun Liu
  • Chicago
  • Dasia Yoo
  • gia
  • Io Quincy Anderson
  • Jules Gourley
  • Kevin Bae
  • Kit Jones
  • Lily Lee
  • Lily Lee
  • Max Gene Ho
  • Max Rhodes
  • MECHAlily
  • Mireya Barrientes
  • Phoenix Yang
  • Possum Yang
  • Sam Hayosh
  • Shijie He
  • Shuwen Yang
  • TERRYLUO
  • Tristan World
  • Vincent Kung
  • Xiaowen Bao
  • Xtrah by Coby
  • Yilu Zhang
  • YOYO Zheng

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