Runway 3.0 Wearable Art Award Winner

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The winner of the $500 Wearable Art Award sponsored by Elaine Polvinen [see: Runway 3.0 Wearable Art Design Award] is Diane Meyer. Diane is an exceptionally talented student that has cross trained in apparel design, fashion & design technologies from the FTT program and fiber design w/Jozef Bajus from the fiber program.

Diane states that her primary creative inspiration for the Technology: Obsession Progression theme has been,

“The construction and destruction of technologically advanced structures through the ages.”

Kuddos Diane!

Runway 3.0 Nancy Belfer Senior Collection Award Winner

Photo by Bruce Fox

The winner of the $1000 Nancy Belfer Senior Collection Award for Runway 3.0 is Tess Hinterbichler. Congratulations Tess on an outstanding collection!

Tess is an FTT Apparel Design Major whose interests lie within fashion illustration, computer aided design programs and garment construction.

According to Tess, she:

“was inspired by the architecture of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which is both modern and traditional. Functionality and innovation are two key terms that come to my mind when dealing with technology. The function or purpose of my technology is transformation. I incorporated wire into certain seam-lines of my garments so that they can be morphed into a different look. That is what technology is meant for, to make life a little bit easier, a little more fun and a little more carefree!

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Related posts:

• GUEST JUDGES FOR RUNWAY 3.0!
• Runway 3.0: Nancy Belfer Senior Collection Award
• CURRENT CULTURAL TASTE-MAKER AS JUDGE FOR RUNWAY 3.0!

Runway 3.0 Evening Show @ 9PM

I did not think it would be possible for the evening show to outdo the afternoon show but the sold out evening show was absolutely enchanting. The ambiance of the historical Pierce arrow building was a perfect setting to the Technology: Obsession Progression Runway 3.0 theme. The students from Erin Habes fashion show production class handled everything very professionally and I received multiple compliments about the production staff. All of the student designers shined as well as the models. I received many positive comments about the models and the quality and originality of the students designs.
Stephen Burgeson’s  hospitality students did an excellent job on the pre-event VIP reception as well as the post event dessert reception. Jozef Bajus and Carol Townsend’s student exhibit reflected a totally distinctive and eclectic exhibition of fiber accessories, wearable art and the Cinderella Show Project. Everyone loved it!

Overall this was an exceptionally positive experience. David Brinson’s senior project students [profiles above] developed some really creative and unique collections.  Erin Habes did a marvelous job with the production class this year. The Runway 3.0 production was especially big challenge this year because it represented the very first totally stand-alone independently funded production by the Fashion Program.

A special thank you to all community and campus supporters, FTT Advisory Board members, students and volunteers.  Without your support Runway 3.0 would not have been possible.

Below is a gallery of the VIP reception before the event and the Fiber Accessories and Wearable Art and Cinderella Project installations. All other evening raw photos are on this FLICKR link.

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More information and photos of the Cinderella Project exhibit at this post:  The Cinderella Project @ Runway 3.0

Runway 3.0 Fiber Design Accessories & Wearable Art

A very special new element has been added to Runway 3.0 from the  Fiber Design program in the Design Department at Buffalo State College. In addition to a new Jozef Bajus student created mini-exhibit titled,  “Fiber Design: Fashion Accessory Project,” the Fiber Program will have a special wearable art section in the Runway event.

A recent post titled Runway 3.0 Wearable Art Design Award details the new award sponsored by Elaine Polvinen and the judge for the award, Ginny O’Brien.

Professor Bajus details the fiber design student participation in Runway 3.0 below:

Fiber/Design Program display: while exploring the traditional and non traditional forms of the fan and telling a story connected with our past, family or friends were essential during the creative process.

Surprising combinations of different materials – paper, wood, cloth, threads, wire, plastic and everyday material, and exploring ranges of techniques such as felting, embroidery, shibori, papermaking and mixed media was an exciting part of the creative process. 

“Wearable Art” – garments and accessories at the show are specifically related to the Runway3.0 Technology: Obsession Progression theme.  Our main focus was on concepts, aesthetics, searching for final form and presentation of the artworks. Part of the wearable art collection will be also included in a special category of the fashion show. The process trail of the fan and the wearable art assignment was documented in a journals which contains research, inspirations, concepts, sketches, and photo images of the final artworks.

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 Here is a link to the RUNWAY 2.0 Hats Exhibit from Runway 2.0.

Stephanie Abelson, a fiber design major, one of the many talented students that is participating in the Runway 3.0 fiber design mini exhibit and wearable art on the runway will be holding a solo gallery exhibit to showcase her skillful, creative work.  Stephanie’s exhibit, warped works, will debut this Friday at 464 Art Gallery on Amherst Street. Here is a link to an article about her exhibit in Buffalo Rising titled, warped works.

Runway 3.0: Working Hard for Fashion!

The countdown is ON!  2 days left!  Last week I took my fashion show production students to the Pierce Arrow Building to help with the cleanup for Runway 3.0.  Some photos are posted below, broom in hand let’s do this !

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Limited Edition Runway 3.0 Tote Bags

We have worked to create a very limited edition small run of Runway 3.0 tote bags. The tote bags are of 100% 10 oz natural cotton canvas, 18″W x 19″H with 4.5″ Bottom Gusset, Handles: 25″L. They are a nice sturdy bag and they look great with the Runway 3.0 logo on them.

We only had time to make a very small number of them so if you like them snap them up quickly for a mere $20.00 donation per bag. All proceeds from the sale will go into the FTT students scholarship fund.

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RUNWAY 3.0 FIRST REVIEW: Video Clips I

When the Runway 3.0 canidates presented their submissions last Thursday, they each spoke for about 1-2 minutes about their creations. Here are a few of the senior collection video clips. I will upload more is a few days.

Brittany

Diane

Tess
 

Lyudmila

Anthony

More to come…..

Runway 3.0: Nancy Belfer Senior Collection Award

Nancy Belfer is sponsoring the Nancy Belfer Senior Collection Award for Runway 3.0.

She is a retired professor from the Design Department at Buffalo State College, where her teaching responsibilities were in the areas of textile weaving and related fiber techniques.  Her MFA is from the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Her work, in both textiles and mixed-media, has been included in numerous  regional and national exhibitions, including the Burchfield Penney Art Center where she had a solo exhibition  in the Sylvia Rosen Gallery and is in the museum collection.  She has been in group shows at the UB Anderson Gallery, the Carnegie Center of the Arts, the Albright Knox Collectors Gallery, Hallwalls, and the Indigo Gallery.

She is a Crafts Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and, as part of the US State Department Arts in Embassies Program, one of her  large tapestries was included in the two-year exhibition at the American Institute in Taiwan.

TECHNOLOGY: PROGRESSION/OBSESSION

The theme of Runway 3.0 is Technology: progression/obsession. In
the words of sociologist Beppe Di Donna: “Our society has
become more difficult to stimulate and therefore everything is
resorting to extremes to be noticed, experimented, and
selected.” Runway’s participating designers will be applying this
concept to the creation of a collection that combines design,
technology, and culture. Their designs will play with the ideas of
extremes in fashion, the role of technology in our culture, and the
revolutionary speed of progress in both fashion and the world
around us.

PRESENTING RUNWAY 3.0