ARTS THREAD Features The Savannah College Of Art And Design Fashion Show 2022
Earlier this summer Savannah College of Art and Design presented SCAD FASHION 2022, the annual showcase of work by senior and graduate students from the SCAD School of Fashion departments including Fashion Design, Accessories, Fibers, Jewellery and Fashion Marketing and Management.
At the event in May, SCAD welcomed international fashion and design luminaries and special guests to Savannah for a first look at the designs from The School of Fashion’s graduating class.”.
The show began with the conceptual film Fashion Run, directed by SCAD alumn Squire Fox, featuring an eclectic range of more than 100 student-created garments.
Taking audiences behind the scenes, the film follows models as they race to The SCAD Museum of Art, and after make-up and hair make-up, parade more than 150 garments down the runway curated from the student collections.
SCAD alumni from a mix of programs collaborated on the film, which also stars more than 100 SCAD student models and actors. The short film and runway show are available for viewing at scad.edu/fashion2022
Fashion Design
E’Naiyah Frazier is a SCAD MFA fashion design graduate with a focus on denim. Her collection ‘IMPERFECT 001’ is inspired by Kintsugi, a Japanese ceramic repairing technique.
‘Using this concept has allowed me to take denim and embrace all the different things that can be done to the fabric. ‘IMPERFECT 001′ was sponsored by ISKO Denim.
Throughout this collection fabric manipulations were implemented using dyeing techniques such as Shibori, various folding patterns, tucking, and re-inserting denim threads back into the garments.’
Ashton Wilkes‘s BFA collection is entitled ‘Life in Monochrome’.
Questioning how people view the world and depressed states, the black and white womenswear collection uses laser-cut circles (over 1,000) to create surface manipulation and includes an artist collaboration with hand-painted dress and accessories.
Esther Hwang‘s BFA collection ‘REBIRTH’ explores combining various types of textures with garments, inspired by burned things and withered flowers to show off an interesting and elegant beauty.
Silhouettes constructed of poplin are very textural with exaggerated tucks, shirring and smocking.
Fibers
Scarlett Thayer‘s BFA work focuses on repetitive mark-making and surface materiality to collage with her observations about the inside and outside world as well as realize the deepest parts of the mind that are often indescribable.
Her studio work explores the light and dark aspects of her personal reality as a way to connect with herself and her surroundings.
As a multimedia textile artist who specializes in telling stories,
Georgie Holbrook’s final project is entitled ‘The Mobbing Birds’.
It is a short fictional story documented across three chapters and three characters – three archetypes of the art world:
The Collector, The Consumer, and The Critic.
BFA graduate L.J. Gomez is a multidisciplinary textile artist specializing in research and material development.
Her work is about objects, both authentic and artificial, and their evolutionary relationships.
Systemic thinking and functionality sit at the core of her work, as she delves into the way materials act as a catalyst across the design fields
