2016 Designer Spotlight
The Designer Spotlight (held on Jan 28) is an open-house style event, presented a few months before the annual KPU fashion show, as an opportunity for industry and media to connect with graduating designers.
The event gives potential industry employers a chance to meet emerging designers, ahead of their graduation, before they begin to explore employment opportunities.
This year, guests had a unique opportunity to view student portfolios, displays, fabric swatches and colour palettes that conveyed the in-depth research, business planning and design thinking that is going into developing the thesis-level collections that will be presented at the upcoming year-end fashion shows (April 6th & 7th).
Featured collections will include seasonless apparel for those who live a genderless or non-binary lifestyle; clean and effortless eveningwear that encourages considered buying; menswear that combines formal and casual business wear using technical elements for function and comfort; clothing based on the philosophy of slowness and the principals of wabi-sabi; luxurious evening gowns that fuse local art with fashion; and surfing apparel for west coast women utilizing sewfree technology and soft circuitry.
2016 Designer Spotlight
The Designer Spotlight (held on Jan 28) is an open-house style event, presented a few months before the annual KPU fashion show, as an opportunity for industry and media to connect with graduating designers.
The event gives potential industry employers a chance to meet emerging designers, ahead of their graduation, before they begin to explore employment opportunities.
This year, guests had a unique opportunity to view student portfolios, displays, fabric swatches and colour palettes that conveyed the in-depth research, business planning and design thinking that is going into developing the thesis-level collections that will be presented at the upcoming year-end fashion shows (April 6th & 7th).
Featured collections will include seasonless apparel for those who live a genderless or non-binary lifestyle; clean and effortless eveningwear that encourages considered buying; menswear that combines formal and casual business wear using technical elements for function and comfort; clothing based on the philosophy of slowness and the principals of wabi-sabi; luxurious evening gowns that fuse local art with fashion; and surfing apparel for west coast women utilizing sewfree technology and soft circuitry.