Two SAIC Community Members Featured in CFDA Fashion Future Grad Showcase

On the left, a girl with shoulder-length black ruffled fabric fashioned into a dress. Underneath the dress is a bodysuit made of green transparent fabric. hair wears a sleveless yellow top, a high-low green skirt, and white lace-up boots. The shirt and the skirt are loose fitting. On the right, a person lays on a reflective floow wearing

Looks from Lot-Us (left) and An Exploration of Self (right). Images courtesy of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Looks from Lot-Us (left) and An Exploration of Self (right). Images courtesy of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Alum Iyomi Ho Ken (BFA 2022) and student Michelle Sumin Suh were recently featured in the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA) 2021 Fashion Future Graduate Showcase. As part of the annual event, Ken and Suh’s collections, Lot-Us and An Exploration of Self respectively, were displayed in the physical and digital hybrid showcase and recognized by CFDA for their ability to “apply ingenuity to the impactful design of product, process, and ideas with meaning and purpose.” The pieces in Suh’s Lot-Us, which resemble the various stages in the life cycle of a bud, draw inspiration from the lotus flower, a symbol of eternal life in Buddhism. Ken’s An Exploration of Self includes bodysuits that change colors over time, which convey Ken’s “feelings, thoughts, and various emotions that go through [her] mind.”

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