Seniors feature original 2-D and 3-D designs

Strut down to Rachael’s Cafe  on Friday to be awed by the funky fashion show organized by senior fashion design certificate students.

The fashion design senior exhibition will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer will be served alongside the menu at the cafe. Guests should bring their dancing shoes because the cafe is holding a party with a live DJ after the fashion show. 

Unlike a runway, the fashionable outfits will be displayed on mannequins as well as by models walking through the exhibition. 

“This way you can notice the details and you can touch the clothes,” said senior Florentina Urrusty, a designer and public relations co-chair involved in the exhibition.

Urrusty said to think 1970s futuristic style with a hint of avant-garde. She added that the fashion is not similar to Judy Jetson, but might lean toward the creativity of Lady GaGa.

The original 80 percent handsewn pieces will have an array of chrome, silver, gray and black colors, said Urrusty.

The texture will consist of mostly synthetic and inexpensive fabrics such as polyester and cotton. However, design students said they would prefer to use silk. Real ingenuity will be applied to the designs in 2-D and 3-D format, for students’ portfolios and for the show, respectively.

The design students took three classes to help prepare the fashion patterns made for the show: draping, pattern development and tailoring. Draping is working with the body before the actual structure is drawn. This method is similar to Bravo’s reality television series, “Project Runway.”  Pattern development is an experimental class for designers to manipulate a pattern into an imagined finished product. Tailoring is exact measurement and precise fitting of an outfit to flatter a body. 

Urrusty said besides the classes attributing to the exhibition, the design students hope to represent their hard work over their past two years.

The process and the final product will be shown. About 30 students will have prepared two garments each and will be presenting their portfolios as well. 

“The fashion design certificate faculty is proud of the designs that the fashion design students have done during their two years in the program and wish them well in their future endeavors,” said Theresa Winge, a professor of fashion design presentation and draping courses.

Rachael Jones, owner of the cafe, said, “It should be an exciting, eclectic, glad-you-came event.”