CREATING and preserving FASHION as an ART stretches the arc of time, asserting its freedom from historical “trend” justification. There is power through AUTONOMY, through independence of a materialistic fashion system. We never tire of GREAT fashion; it can SUSTAIN time. We quickly tire of trendy, frivolous, unmeaningful pieces.
-RP Hill
Museum Crawl: MUST See 2022 FASHION Exhibits – Africa Fashion, Virgil Abloh, McQueen, Pei, and more
When we start to see how fashion serves a purpose in our culture and history, we begin to dismiss the frivolous segment of it and assimilate a more responsible and ecosystem-protective conduct. Fashion needs to be seen and not just a 20-minute catwalk or shopping spree. Museums are a cure for cultural curiosity. The old […]
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Museum Destiny: The Case for Contemporary Fashion
Curating the body, creating around bodies, is not a typical conversation or exploration in fashion.
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In the AGE of CREATIVE INTENTIONALITY, Laura Petzke takes on the ELEMENTS
HOROSCOPE? Believe or not to believe is a personal choice, but in looking at various angles in showcasing this body of work, I chose to examine a designer’s creative intent around the topic of astrological signs, which have social, cultural, and technical implications. Fashion is about conviction, Petzke unfolds fashion as a deeper conversation on […]
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“Map of the SOUL”: a transformation of BICULTURAL IDENTITY thru fashion
INDIVIDUALISM, INDEPENDENCE, please, NO LABELS! When you are of mixed culture, how do you define and identify yourself without the input of society?
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Dressed in COSTUME: The VISUAL Communication of Performance ART
LIGHTS, CAMERA, COSTUMES! Welcome to the stage. That’s the feeling I got when I stepped into the exhibit Wearable Art/Costume Design. I didn’t know what to expect of an exhibit located at Chapel Theatre, a performance arts space near Portland, Oregon. Just like it sounds, Chapel Theatre, was a Chapel now converted as a performing […]
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“Open Borders”: A Look at designs by Dennis Sanders
“My Haters Are Like Stars. . .”: A Look at designs by Larissa Pascale Binder
“It’s your world for a moment”: A Look at designs by Felicitas Volk
“Generation Chance”: A Look at designs by Sophia Mazenauer
“On The Mend”: A Look at designs by Sirima Ehmke
“Bondo”: A Look at designs by Damian Ohl
“Sorry” in sync with Sinnfluencers: A Look at designs by Eva Viola Emmermann
“Encore”: A Look at designs by Toni Eisold
“exi (s) t realism”: A Look at designs by Cecilia Finking
“Instant Fashion”: A Look at designs by Pepe Jo Kaul
“Y / N SELECT”: A Look at designs by Sarah Broecker
“SYS-OFF”: A Look at designs by Jan Hartmann
“Hylemorph”: A Look at designs by Aylin Tomta
“Value”: A Look at designs by Flora Taubner
“Aftermath”- a utopia of no war: A Look at designs by Philip Kofi Wagner
Neo.Fashion.: The Vanguard of Fashion Emerges from Germany
When it comes to composition, storytelling, or pure emotional grit, designer graduates are unhinged in their creativity. A “Look at EDGE” presents Neo.Fashion.’s showcase of emerging talent from Germany university graduates. They dream (and execute) the improbable, the impossible, feeding our desires of want, although more clothes we don’t need, the visual consumption of the […]
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Museum Crawl: Must See Fashion Exhibits 2021/22
When we start to see how fashion serves a purpose in our culture and history, we begin to dismiss the frivolous segment of it and assimilate a more responsible and protective conduct. Fashion needs to be seen and not just a 20-minute catwalk or shopping spree. Museums are a cure for cultural curiosity. The old […]
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Who’s On Point? Ukrainian Fashion Week. What’s on Point? Circular Fashion.
Ukraine’s BE SUSTAINABLE! Fashion Summit is in its third year of presenting an international event aimed at increasing the level of expertise of Ukrainian professionals working in the field of design and production of clothing. The Summit took place during Ukrainian Fashion Week No Season 2021 [UFWNS]. Did you notice “no season”? One of the […]
Read moreThese people give a shit about how things are made, and why they are made; and if things are going to be made, they need to be meaningful and beautiful.
Simon Doonan, Creative Ambassador, Barney’s New York; Selby, Todd, Fashionable Selby
Metamorphosis: A Look at DZHUS
Cycle: A Look at POSTUSHNA Re-Fashion for DHL
Eternity: A Look at LITKOVSKAYA
Tactile: A Look at CHERESHNIVSKA
Fashion Week – digital, in-person, new approach, or not at all?
Against the backdrop of unprecedented store closures, bankruptcy, and excessive inventory throughout the supply chain, is fashion week necessary? Mckinsey & Company suggest the global industry’s economic profit will fall by 93 percent in 2020 after rising 4 percent in 2019. In a worst case scenario, the industry won’t get back to 2019 levels until […]
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All Power to the Imagination. On|Off presents a Surrealistic cat walk
Art as fashion. Fashion as art. Get on board to a movement that counters the out-of-control ‘cut and sew’ robotic-produced fashion thrown our way with no artistic and sustainable values. London Fashion Week’s On|Off runway show sent a message to shake up the status quo.
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Ukraine’s BE SUSTAINABLE! – a platform making noise
Fashion is universally cited as being one of the most polluting industries in the world. Thank you to conscious consumers and to environmental activists such as Greta Thunberg for their demands on attacking the environmental crisis. Putting sustainability at the forefront of business models, strategic plans, supply chain infrastructure, etc., is long overdue.
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Alena Kalana | Tibetan Transplant
Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art, [far left] Alena Kalana and Hera Zhou, designers
Hera Zhou | The Wave
Tingyue Jiang | Erik ReeL paintings
Tingyue Jiang | Erik ReeL paintings
Tingyue Jiang | painting by Erik ReeL | photo Charlene Broudy | GraySpace Gallery
Alena Kalana | Tibetan Transplant
Alena Kalana, Tibetan Transplant
Alena Kalana
Opening Reception
The Art of Fashion | Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art
Fashion exhibitions at art galleries are the new black – Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art exhibit.
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Fashion as an Art | Central Saint Martins’ Design Students Present Fashion in Motion
Fashion is an art form. Performance art – live mannequin presentation – at it’s best.
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Portland’s FashioNxt Week – is it truly What’s Next?
FashioNxt Week, Portland, Oregon’s version of Fashion Week with an emphasis on the Pacific Northwest, showcases designers from around the world.
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Launch Pad | a runway event fuses an iconic American brand and an emerging design force
Crystal chandeliers, embroidered tapestries, carved marble fountains and columns, and frescoes and murals were the backdrop to Woodbury University’s popular fashion runway event. The fashion design students shared the runway with famed fashion duo Badgley Mischka at the historic landmark, Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.
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A Message from the Editor to FIDM graduates and all emerging designers
. . . And to Those Still Trying to Break Through the ‘Noise’. There are no impossibilities. In a world where we are taught to conform, we must be diligent in using our creative power for change.
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High Fashion in the Alley – a behind-the-scene look
The experience of a fashion showcase doesn’t always come in a neat package of theatrical runway drama, museum exhibitions, or retail display windows. Fashion in the alley has a personality, energy, and engagement all of its own when witnessed in “the alley” as the behind-the-scene back stage to a fashion show.
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Tour the Gallery | Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art
Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art fashion exhibit, curated by Rhonda P. Hill
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Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art | Exhibiting Culture Through Fashion
The power of fashion lies in its ability to transform identity and culture. GraySpace Gallery presents Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art fashion exhibit. As creator of this exhibition, it uniquely spotlights the process and output of selected work of fashion designers Tingyue Jiang, Alena Kalana, Susan Tancer and Hera Zhou who blur the distinction between […]
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Mass Production: The Imperfection of the Art | EDGE Talks to Tíngyuè Jǐang
There are economic, ethical, cultural, and design issues around mass production, particularly mass produced fashion. Aside from its social issues, fashion that is mass produced can be very expected, uninspiring, conforming, and blasé, you get the picture, and tends to be of lower-quality. Do we ever think of the actual makers of these mass produced […]
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Unconventional Is the Norm | EDGE Talks to Alena Kalana
One thing I want to do is figure out a better way to leave less of a footprint. I am not at all interested in mass production. What I create is art. – Alena Kalana A high school fashion course led Alena Kalana to give fashion design a serious thought. This award winning designer’s passion […]
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The Mastering of Fashion Design | EDGE Talks to Hera Zhou
This was an experience that you can’t get in school; it is like a master teaching their apprentice. – Hera Zhou “Being in Paris is a dream city for a fashion designer”, says Hera Zhou, and she seized the opportunity with no hesitation. Imagine working at the Louvre Museum, looking at sketches from famed couture […]
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Creative Power Disrupts the System | EDGE Talks to Peivand Mirzaie
Breaking the rules, disrupting the fashion system is easier than you think. Fashion designer, Peivand Mirzaie has made a mark on breaking the rules, disrupting the system, while embracing the power of fashion. She has gone beyond the ‘system’ in her designs, pushing concept over saleability; in her choice of education, wanting more freedom and […]
Read moreFashion, like art, embodies the time we live in and society bears witness to the interpretation of its historical and cultural significance.
Rhonda P. Hill
Ten Minute Catwalk – Costly, Waste of Time, Once You See It, Forgotten!
A ten minute catwalk? How about a ten month campaign of exposure! Why not leverage this very short window of exposure to maximize your business long-term. Here are 10 steps of keeping your brand prominent in the eyes and buying power of your audience: Tell your story – document your design and development stages by […]
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Tools to Sew is Not Enough | EDGE Talks to Bishme Cromartie, Bč
Fashion design is my diary. I always can mark a collection around a devastating or exciting time in my life. Designing helps me express my feelings and emotions all while telling a story. – Bishme R. Cromartie
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“2+2=5”- A Denial of What is Evident? Francesco Rasola at Milan Fashion Week
Francesco Rasola is on the EDGE Radar for a very good reason. He thinks, he makes you think, he uses fashion as messaging – as an art of language. Our last connection with Francesco was from his collection, “It’s Just Matter of Time” [please reference our Stop! In Front of Time interview with him]. Here, […]
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A Harmonious Union – Fashion, Earth, and Tradition | EDGE Talks to Purvi Doshi
The Fashion industry has contributed to the earth’s pollution, and my endeavor is to show the world that we can have high-fashion in co-existence with nature and other living beings. – Purvi Doshi
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Emerging Designers ‘Step Out of Bounds’ | Nolcha Shows New York Fashion Week
Emerging designers get exposed [E D G E]! With the thousands of fashion shows worldwide, very few expose up and coming designers with the prominent and consistent platform that Nolcha Shows at New York Fashion Week does. Nolcha Shows is an award winning event, held during New York Fashion Week, for independent fashion designers to […]
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EDGE Top Picks – Style Fashion Week NY | Gregorio Sánchez
Gregorio Sánchez showcases his colorful México heritage through his use of handmade embroidery and an artistic bent on simplicity through design. Of the 27 featured designers, Gregorio Sánchez is one of a handful of emerging designers/brands EDGE selected from Style Fashion Week New York runway that exhibits timeless elegant and pragmatic pieces. Investing in clothing […]
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EDGE Top Picks – Style Fashion Week NY | Brittany Nicole
Non-conforming, fun, whimsical, graphically bold, socially charged, playful, colorful, daring. This is not your usual stuff, hmm . . . this potpourri collection stimulates conversation. Fashion should be a little lighthearted and make you take a pause. Brittany Allen, CEO and Creative Director of Brittany Nicole, who holds an MFA from Savannah College of Art […]
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EDGE Top Picks – Style Fashion Week NY | Grace Moon
The Korean American designer, Grace Moon, brings artistry to her designs with striking color block combinations, unconventional layering, and architectural cuts. A work of art! Her designs reflect her Korean heritage and are based from the Korean traditional clothing, Hanbok. Of the 27 featured designers, Grace Moon is 1 out of a handful of emerging designers […]
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GAiETY uP | EDGE Talks to Patrick Kevin Francisco
If there’s a word to describe “GAiETY uP” it would be EXUBERANT – Patrick Kevin Francisco Patrick Kevin Francisco has been on the EDGE Radar for some time and is definitely an up and coming designer to watch. A fashion show award winner and recent graduate from the Art Institute of California – Hollywood, he […]
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31 Designers and the Art of Transformation Defined by Them
31 fashion designers showcased their collection at The Art of Transformation Defined by You fashion show presented by the Art Institute of California [Ai]. For the first time, four southern Ai California campuses [of Argosy University] joined forces to produce one phenomenal show featuring final collections from graduating and recently graduated students. Claudine Papillon, CA […]
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Designers Speak Out | Alternatives to Fashion Runway with Commercial Viability
In ten minutes the past few months of working on something is presented to the world. The show itself is over so fast, and for myself, I only see it on a playback video after it’s over. – Brendan M Combs, designer. With each show available for the viewing public, digitally, designers question where is the […]
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The Fashion Runway – Are the Costs Worth It? Designers Tell All!
Fashion shows have become a media spectator sport at a high cost of entry for the designer. Is the 10 – 20 minute catwalk worth the investment in exposing their work, but more importantly getting that order from buyers? Read what emerging designers think of fashion shows. A mixed blessing?
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Next Up! The Best Designer Showcases of Art Hearts Fashion
EDGE’s selection of the best of Arts Hearts Fashion designer showcase are Patrick Kevin Francisco, Alena Sablan, Jovani, and Jessie Liu. Out of 38 designers, these 4 meet the EDGE criteria of design excellence. Photo Credit: BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MARCH 17, Arun Nevader/Getty Images, Courtesy of Art Hearts Fashion More of Look at EDGE, click here. […]
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The EDGE Lookbook | David Tupaz, From the Runway of Style Fashion Week
David Tupaz, the Hollywood based Filipino designer, is a true example of one who channels his passion through art, culture, and design. He speaks the EDGE philosophy.
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The EDGE Lookbook | Commatteo at Style Fashion Week
Antonella Commatteo labels her brand as a “fashion disruptor – fashion that lets you be who you want to be”. The look of her prior collections have been disruptive, undisciplined with no continuity as a collection. With this collection, there was discipline and a cohesive vision. She took a simpler approach by mixing a primary color palette […]
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The EDGE Lookbook | Richard Hallmarq at Style Fashion Week
The acclaimed designer, Richard Hallmarq, known for his star-making fame on Project Runway Season 11, presents his F/W 2017 collection at Style Fashion Week LA.
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The EDGE Lookbook | Malan Breton, From the Runway of Style Fashion Week
Originality can be expressed in a designer’s artistic approach and/or in the brand’s cultural message. It can be as subtle as in the cut/make, color, and fabric. Creative originality and innovation start with the story, the concept, the purpose, and the “why” of the collection. Why should we be engaged?
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Building a Brand: 100,000 + FB Followers and more – EDGE Talks To LeGrand Leseur
It’s really amazing to present something to the world of fashion and share the stage with people who have been doing this longer or have more notoriety. – LeGrand Leseur
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Fashion Unknown Fact – Fashion Week Designer Costs
Well established big brands can start at $100,000, which can include venue, models, styling, hair and makeup, production, public relations, and livestreaming. Pay to play celebrities are in addition.
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Fashion Week, A Call To Action. 13 ‘Must Consider’ Tips
Don’t let Fashion Week play you.
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