Saturday, March 11 was the 39th annual Cornell Fashion Collective Fashion Show. The Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) is a student-run group that puts on a fashion show every spring. This runway show gives students an opportunity to get experience with putting on a fashion show, both with making the items and with the behind-the-scenes parts, like management and finances. This year, the runway show was in Barton hall, once again. The theme of this year’s runway show was In Retrospective Forethought. Level one’s creations incorporated elements of past fashion, while the pieces level two created focused on what they thought the future of fashion would look like. Levels three and four made their own collections, ranging from three to ten pieces.
One of my favorite collections was in level three: Cut Out by Rani Sheth. Sheth used bronze and white fabric to make a skirt, dress, and a couple of shirts. These outfits all incorporated small cut-out ovals. I really enjoyed the colors—the shiny bronze and white together reminded me of a sunset. Nancy Wang incorporated similar colors in some of her pieces as part of her collection, Instrument of Illusion. One of the ensembles in her collection that I especially liked was a mini jacket and pants with the same white and bronze fabric. Another outfit that stood out to me was part of Nadine El Nesr’s collection: The Day is a Dream, The Night is Real. It was a sparkly black catsuit, with long sleeves and long pants. Nesr paired the catsuit with a black hat, black heels, and a cigarette holder. Especially with the hat and cigarette holder, Nasr’s ensemble reminded me of 1920s fashion.
The Cornell Fashion Collective is an incredible program. It gives students the chance to get familiar with the field of fashion, and know what it takes to put on a fashion show. You can view some of the behind-the-scenes action on CFC’s Instagram @cornellfashioncollective.
Nadine El Nesr’s The Day is a Dream the Night is Real, courtesy of Hannah Shapiro
Nancy Wang’s Instrument Of Illusion, courtesy of Hannah Shapiro
Randy Sheth’s Cut Out, courtesy of Hannah Shapiro