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PAPER - "The Best Looks From This Year's Graduating Fashion Students"

Springtime in New York means many things to many different people. For fashion school graduates, it means an end to countless hours in their school workshops (or shoebox apartment kitchens) etching away fabric on a garment as part of their school's senior showcase. It's an honored tradition, one that famous alumni have done before them. Only this time, it's virtual.


Zoom waiting rooms and YouTube chat livestreams, filled with supportive friends and family, are the runways for this year's Class of 2021 — must like those of last year graduating within the midst of a global pandemic.


Many elite institutions have gotten the hang of digital connections over the last few months Parsons School of Design's student festival is digital only for the second time while Rhode Island School of Design's graduate-led show premiered on YouTube. For these Gen-Z graduates, mixing technology and garments with forward thinking approaches to fashion is just another day at school.


Presenting the Class of 2021, hailing from the nation's top design programs, including Fashion Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute, College of Creative Studies and FIDM, among others. From hauntingly beautiful collections mirroring society and rebirth to bedazzled club kid dresses Paris Hilton would be jealous of, here's the rising student graduates you need to watch.


Hector Diaz, SCAD


An ode to the deep introspective nature of dreams, Diaz's graduate collection, "'Deep Redux' focuses on the subconscious ways we express ourselves through clothing. "I came up with a process I call 'Dream Weaving'," Diaz told PAPER. "It is the idea of taking secondhand clothing and garments, cutting them down to strips, using these strips to weave on a hedge loom, and creating a new textile out of it in the process."


Written by Ana Escalante from "PAPER" Magazine

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