Fashion's Next Wave: San Francisco Academy of Art College
Classic silhouettes walked next to more raging styles during the recent San Francisco Academy of Art College’s Fashion 2001 show for graduating students in San Francisco, where internships provided by Burberry’s were on the line. Company CEO Rose Marie Bravo, formerly of I. Magnin fame, returned to her Bay Area stomping grounds to provide internships to Reginald Richard, Caroline Yak and Lucia Alvarez de Toledo. Richard, who was noted for his knitted menswear, will work for the company in London, while merchandising grad Yak will head to the company’s U.S. headquarters in New York and design student de Toledo will work at Burberry’s in Barcelona.
The show was highlighted by a reception and exhibit of the Ford Focus Project, a collection of student works in fashion, textile design and merchandising. Among the exhibitors were Oakland’s Sara Burchett, who showed apparel made from vintage bed mattress fabrics, and Los Angeles’ Desanka Fasiska, who displayed apparel designs that she described as an “abstraction of misguided childhood fantasies.” —Robert McAllister
