Press Features
CFDA Fashion Future Graduate Showcase
“The CFDA Fashion Future Graduate Showcase 2019 is a hybrid physical and digital showcase spotlighting exemplary talents to the industry. Through the review of school-endorsed applications, the CFDA selects up to 50 graduates to participate in the two-day showcase from June 17-18, and give them the opportunity to present their thesis collection and portfolio to the industry, talent acquisition/HR, editors, and influencers.”
Fashionista Magazine: This Year’s Parsons Grads Plan to Harness All Things Digital
“Each year in May, Parsons School of Design in New York City hosts its annual benefit and runway show featuring select talent from the graduating fashion design class… Here, five standouts talk about using the internet to propel their fashion concepts forward, how they're implementing different aspects of sustainability and what's next for them.”
Office Magazine: The People’s Runway
“Every year Parsons School of Design at The New School stages a student runway show to celebrate the graduating class. However, this year’s BFA designers sent their models down 5th Avenue instead of a traditional catwalk. Aptly (colloquially) titled, “The People’s Runway” welcomed any, and all, surveyors. The fashion industry is notorious for elitism, and inaccessibility… Witnessing over a hundred standout pieces up close, it wasn’t easy to decipher the best of the best.”
The New York Times: The Hospital Gown Gets a Modest Redesign
“In partnership with students from Parsons School of Design, Care and Wear, a “healthwear company” (it specializes in medical wearables), has created a new kimono-inspired hospital gown that opens in the front, has a shielding pleat in the back, replaces five types of gowns with one, and allows for partial exposure through the use of ties and snaps.”
Dezeen: Parsons Students Partner with Care + Wear to Redesign the Hospital Gown
“Students from the Parsons School of Design have worked with hospital clothing company Care+Wear to create a patient gown that provides coverage, while also allowing doctors necessary access to the body.”