Fashion Show 27 April to showcase avant-garde designs

  Matthew Gottesman '13 sees fashion design as a "creative experience", starting with sketches and original knitwear machines, transformed - through intensive testing and error - in appearance, their models fit without fault for 27 Cornell Fashion Collective spring runway show in April .

Citing a "interplanetary expedition into a jungle planet," his collection of pants, shorts, dresses, sweaters and parkas - with the name "Io" after one of the moons of Jupiter - is based on these influences, such as science fiction films " Prometheus "and" Star Wars "and the spacey sounds of the electronic band M83. To develop their aesthetic, he experimented with plastic and nylon parachute and even worked with paper No. 9, a company that specializes in Brooklyn sustainable textiles to create an original, that the obligations of white tissue paper green denim.

Gottesman and more than 40 other student designers - especially the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design (FSAD) in the College of Human Ecology, and some colleges of Arts and Sciences and Architecture, Art and Planning - are busy cutting, sewing and assembly the finishing touches on their pieces for this year's show, scheduled for 07.30 clock in Barton Hall. Each of them to create a look with respect to a common theme, "The Seven Deadly Sins" - - designer in the first year for seniors, which is eight to 10 sets message on the track, the annual show an opportunity for students to showcase their finest examples of haute couture.

"This is a great time and a labor of love, but it is also an intensely rewarding" work, Gottesman said.

Show organizers worked around the clock, too. Susan Freeman '13, the group's president, said the planning of this year's event began shortly after the show last year. She leads a board of eight students to monitor every element of the show - the installation of the track, promotion, casts models, ticket sales and more - making the event one of the only completely out of fashion Cornell students. Freeman, who relies on student volunteers from across campus to stage the show, expects about 2,000 people to attend the show.

"I'm excited to see everything come together," she said. "Almost all the work is done outside the classroom, so that our designers and members of the Executive Council gave so much to the success of the event."

For the first time the show will be broadcast set for the former Cornell and friends through an online platform by the Office of Alumni and Development.

Further experimental pieces Gottesman, designer Caroline Delson '13, who is also a member of the board to a line of men's clothing, the stretch denim, velvet, satin, vinyl, neoprene and contains Japanese cotton to create - often used in combination. Katelyn Ridgeway '13 developed a landline number outerwear that combines the classic wool with modern waterproof and abrasion-resistant materials.

"Very few students have designed their own fabric and create digital prints for them, and many students have taken advantage of laser cutting of this semester," said Delson equipment, high-tech design in building human ecology. "He brought the visual impact of exposure to a new level."

Around 150 are original looks on the runway, modeled by Cornell and even some students. Sophomores show pieces under the motto "Reinstalling the button-down" shirt and team awards Pendleton, a group of designers and FSAD management and business students created, co-molded on a boy scout influenced young male line with fabrics of Pendleton Wool Mills, an iconic American brand of Mort Bishop III '74 led donated.

"The show is a major event - we see it as the culmination of four years of learning, discovery and creative expression," Delson said. "This is not just an opportunity to show our work ... but to celebrate my friends and colleagues in their talents and hard work."