Just off the heels of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, the Ai New York City fashion department has yet another faux feather to add to their cap! Ai New York City Fashion Design student Joshuan Aponte has been selected as a finalist in the eighth annual Cool vs. Cruel Fashion Design Competition. Joshuan is one of 19 finalists from across North America who will compete in the fur-free design competition sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States. The competition challenges Art Institutes' fashion students to creatively reinterpret and replace animal fur on runway designs by Marc Jacobs, J. Mendel, BCBGMAXAZARIA and Jean-Paul Gaultier. Joshuan's design is inspired by a Jean-Paul Gaultier cocktail dress with a fur bottom. He replaced the fur with fraying the bottom of the dress with a wire brush. Click on the link below to see photos of Joshuan and his design https://www.facebook.com/HSUSFurFree.
If selected as a national grand prize winner, Joshuan will receive an all expense-paid, week-long internship in New York City with a celebrated designer from the panel of judges.
Congratulations to Joshuan, Amanda Lovell, Fashion Department Chair, Vikki Nulman, Assistant Fashion Department Chair and all of our fabulous fashion faculty!
All of our best wishes go with Joshuan ... good luck!
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