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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