Soo Jung Sung & Ivanka Georgiev fall 2008 Fashion Design & Textile Design

The recent graduates of the School of Fashion at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, have presented their fall 2008 collection during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Saturday, 2 February 2008 in ‘The Promenade’ in Bryant Park, New York.

Like a dragon fly - girl you got to get away!
Music Tipp: Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz youtube.com/watch?v=AAeYTC_uY54

Fashion design major Soo Jung Sung (born in Yeosu, raised in Seoul, Korea) was inspired by the movie Blue Swallow (Cheong-yeon) about Park Kyung-won, the first female aviator in Korea. Based on early 1900s Korean history when conservatism and discrimination against women evokes a heroine that had an independent spirit for her job. Soo Jung Sung reinterprets in this collection Pilot uniforms and Asian influences.

Textile designer Ivanka Georgiev (born and raised in Pernik, Bulgaria) bonded newsprint paper and brown paper to the base fabric, applied pigments using silkscreen techniques and drew patterns that represent the land using a knife to visualize the pilot’s point of view overlooking the land from above. Ivanka Georgiev ignores typical industry standards of textiles to push creativity to its limits.

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The School of Fashion's divisions: Fashion Design for Womenswear, Menswear, and Childrenswear; Textile Design; Knitwear Design; Fashion Journalism; Fashion Merchandising; and Visual Merchandising. Check out the School of Fashion at the Academy of Art University, the largest accredited private art and design school in the U.S. (established in 1929) academyart.edu.

fig.: (from left) Ivanka Georgiev, model Alex Sandor, and Soo Jung Sung. Alex Sandor wears the coated dress. photos: Randy Brooke