School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fashion Display Amazes Enthusiasts, Focusses on Social Topics



CHICAGO, May 6: Several hundred fashion enthusiasts, admirers of art, and community members assembled around a hectic runway at Venue Six10 at the Spertus Institute to see art and fashion on show, via the lens of Chicago's evolving designers. Pupils from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) fashion design program highlighted collections stimulated by close private feeling and social topics.

"Eight hundred miles from the ready-to-wear capital of New York City, Chicago offers the freedom to explore fashion without limits," revealed Anke Loh, Sage Foundation Chair of SAIC's Fashion Design department, adding, "That freedom was made especially evident in this year's show in the range of issues represented by student designs, from stories of immigration and displacement to gender roles, identity, and equality."

The unconventional attires varied from gravity resisting and defiant to lanky and fanciful. A crowd favored comprised senior Oscar Chen, whose effort wanted to contest society's gender anticipations.

"Inspiration for this collection came from the playful gayness of performance artist Leigh Bowery and Robert Mapplethorpe's concept of undressing, aiming for a fun, sensual collection that challenges hetero-normative dress codes," stated Chen in a speech about his work.

Only before the runway display, Nick Cave, SAIC's Stephanie and Bill Sick Professor of Fashion, Body and Garment, bestowed Master of Design graduate student Nick Mahshie, who is above 21, the RumChata Foundation $20,000 fellowship to sustain ongoing fashion design work away from graduate studies at SAIC.

Former students of the SAIC fashion design program comprise Cynthia Rowley, Halston, Gary Graham, and Maria Pinto among others. Pinto, who was present at the program, will obtain an honorary doctorate at SAIC's start later this month.

For 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a frontrunner in teaching the globe's most leading artists, designers and academics. Situated in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program steadily positioning among the chief three graduate fine arts programs in the country by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC delivers an interdisciplinary technique to art and design as well as superlative assets, comprising the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries and advanced amenities. SAIC's undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate pupils have the liberty to take chances and generate the courageous thoughts that alter Chicago and the globe —as appreciated through distinguished former students and faculty for example Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, as well as LeRoy Neiman.

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