“Cherry Skirt” Josh Buck
The Art Institute Fashion Show is both showcase for students, especially graduating seniors who show capsule collections, and fundraiser for the school’s Creative Arts Scholarship Fund. This year, Evolution: The Fine Art of Fashion happens Sunday, June 15 at 7:30 PM at the Portland Art Museum Kridel Grand Ballroom (1219 SW Park Ave). $25 general admission.
AI students invariably graduate with technical skills, and the lure of athletic and sportswear is weighty in the land of Nikadidacolumbiana, so it’s surprising and exciting when the tech prowess is applied in surprising ways. In particular we have our eyes on Jasmine Zamora and her remarkable, organic handknits we’ve written about previously, Erin Glanz and her sculptural colorblocked occasion dresses, and Joshua Buck, whom we’ve been quietly following and who based the design for this piece (below) of groupwork for an AI class called “Foucault” on “psychoanalysis and the the era in which it intitially gained popularity,” so “plays on Japonisme, as well as the conventions of masculine dress from the latter half of the Victorian era.” Interest piqued.
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