Fashionable Friday: SAIC's Annual Fashion Show
By Carrie McGath in Arts & Entertainment on May 7, 2015 9:15PM
This Friday, fashion students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) get to show off their wares during four runway shows throughout the course of the day. One of the biggest art events of the spring, tickets are still available for all three daytime shows, crescendoing into the main event of the day, The Walk 2015. This premium event begins with a cocktail reception and a performance called The Dolls by SAIC faculty member, Claudia Hart. Tickets for The Walk begin at $500, making it an essential part of the Fashion Department's ongoing success, with proceeds from ticket purchases going straight back into the department so they can carry on their stellar reputation as one of the best schools to study art and design in the world.
The evening event helps to inspire and train the next generation of influential fashion designers but it is also essential to individual students. In addition to supporting SAIC Fashion, proceeds from tickets also go toward merit-based scholarships for students to continue their pioneering design work. This year, students Heather Rhee (BFA 2016) and Noe Loewald Hu (BFA 2016) have earned illustrious scholarships from Geoffrey Beene and Liz Claiborne, respectively, and they are two of many students to keep an eye on in the future of fashion.
Paris-based fashion contributor and founder of the famed and groundbreaking blog, A Shaded View on Fashion (ASVOF) will be honored with the 2015 Legend of Fashion Award during the lush festivities at The Walk. She will be showing selections from her traveling film festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center on Sunday if you are still craving more fashion-related fare. Tickets are still available for this viewing at the Siskel and the event begins at 1:00 p.m.
This event is a truly unique and opulent way to celebrate the School while helping it continue its mission in training the innovative artists, designers and thinkers of the future.