UNBOUND 2013 will be a night to remember

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On April 12 at 7 p.m., third-year Fashion students will stage the annual UNBOUND Fashion Show at Museum London. This year celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Fashion Design Program at Fanshawe College, and the theme of the show will be N.D.A — New Digital Aesthetic, an edgy theme that celebrates a computer's inability to decipher between traditional views of beauty, therefore allowing designers more creative freedom and redefining beauty and aesthetic in an unbiased way.

The show will feature a fivelook collection from each student, with styles ranging from casual street fashion to glamorous evening wear. Each student designed a collection around their inspirations based on of the trends Neo-Geo, Next Nature and N.D.A. As a whole, students took the approach of putting a twist on classics with trendy details. Expect lots of new textures, fabric manipulation and different approaches to cutting, such as ‘subtraction,' a cutting technique where fabric is draped and the armhole and neck is cut directly on the dress form, creating a rawer, fabric manipulation that creates more texture. Another technique that the skilled students are doing is smocking, where thread is hand sewn on the fabric and then pulled to create a new texture. The collections are also using the highest end and highest quality of fabrics from New York.

Every year, the show welcomes a distinguished panel of judges from the industry and this year, the emcees are Glen Baxter, one of the top 10 most influential people in Canadian fashion, and Jennifer Wells, a distinguished Fanshawe alumni who has her own line of knitwear. The judges are Sherry Browne, Post It brand manager; Sue Glass, owner of local stores Frilly Lizard and Lolita; stylist Tracy Richards; designers Franco Mirabelli and David Dixon; program mentor Leesa Butler; Erin O'Brien, market editor for Flare magazine; and more will be attending. Theresa Vander Hoeven, founder of the Fashion Design program at Fanshawe College will also be on the panel of judges alongside the President of the school, Dr. Howard Rundle.

Not only will the show be an extravagant display of our Fashion Design program's talent, a magazine of looks from their collections will be bundled with the October issue of Canadian Flare Magazine. The event will also have a DJ and an area to mingle, so come out on April 12 to Museum London and support our third year Fashion Design students' talent! For more information, check out facebook.com/Unbound2013 and grab your tickets through the Grand Theatre website at grandtheatre.com.