Oh, snap, SCAD Fashion Show day!! I totally love fashion student work – students are still excited about being experimental, before they get out in the real world and have to start taking clients, customers, and sales into consideration. Student work is full of life and possibility, and I’m so glad SCAD webcasts their end of the year fashion show live for folks who can’t be there in person!

Waiting, Waiting, Waiting

This year, I thought it’d be awesome for people to be able to hear Phil’s 3 yr old take on the fashions coming down the runway, so we were all set with a Google Hangout that coincided with the show’s 8pm start time… problem is, the show didn’t start live streaming until around 8:30. But our Hangout was good for a laugh… if you like watching a muhmuh try to keep her cool while her two kids are getting super antsy about getting the fashion show on the road.

On With the Show

And then, wouldn’t you know it – pretty much the second I couldn’t take it any more, that moment when Joy had gotten fairly coocoopants over the fact that I wouldn’t feed her on the webcast and we had signed off… That’s when the webcast started. Boom.

I was so excited to see the change of venue when the live stream of the SCAD Fashion Show came online! This year they had it at the SCAD Museum of Art, which made for a much more unique runway experience than what I saw for 2013. All of the cuts to different cameras throughout the museum made the show so much more dynamic to watch!

Loved this gold party dress with a kind of pleated basket weave texture down the front of it – this is totally something I would wear!

Phil and I started talking about the fashions that were coming down the runway, and we mentioned that you could see shapes where the fabric crossed over the front of this piece.

Even more so on this one! There was another look that came down the runway with this one that was very geometric, too. Phil liked the rectangles.

I’m a big fan of bold color, and these pieces that paired bright orange with more neutral creams were great. Love the full skirt on the gown on the left!

Looking at this piece again I like it even more than I did the first time it came down the runway – is that a close up of a crown graphic? I see a crown! I dig it!

I loved the textural feel of these pieces, and I’m pretty sure they’re either hand painted, or the textures and patterns on the fabric were at some point created by hand… A lot of work went into not only the clothing but the fabric that made the clothing, and I was really into that.

“That one has a heart on it,” Phil said the second that look on the right walked out onto the runway. These pieces were super fun, and I LOVE the hard graphic lines of the black and white print with the pops of color in it.

This is what I’m talking about with the change of venue for this year’s fashion show – I totally dug when they’d cut to this camera angle and you could see a bunch of the looks from above.

This collection was great – I’m digging the dark blue / lime green combo, and I love how the green just peeked out from the pleats on that black and white print skirt. Not sure I’m feeling how heavy the fur felt around the neck of the coat on the right, but overall this group was cool.

Here’s another look from that group – I don’t know if I’d wear this outfit per se, but the colors and the repeat pattern together are rad.

Ok I’ll be honest I didn’t know what to make of this bright patchwork group. If I had to pick one I liked better, I’d go with the one on the right. Even though she was dressed like some kind of futuristic scarecrow, she rocked it.

Props to this designer for including a graffiti-inspired t shirt graphic that felt high end.

A tiny Edwardian collar is still an Edwardian collar, guys… I’m almost 100% positive I could not pull this look off without looking like a jackrear. I’m sure someone else could wear it and look serious. Just not me.

I made a point to tell Phil that this gal needed to put another shirt on when she came walking out.

There was a little bit of menswear on the runway tonight, and maybe I’m just a chick… But I don’t get it. But Phil sure did love their boots.

That number 27 is fur, guys. That number 27 is fur.

More gold dresses on the runway (remember the show opened with gold) – is that gonna be a hot color in the coming year? These looks were both really interesting to me – I loved the gladiator skirt reference on the left, and the cage skirt on the right. But I really dug the antlers.

Even more metallic looks, obviously from a different designer – I smell a trend, folks! Get your gold on!

Great silhouettes on these black dresses, I only wish I could’ve seen em in person to catch more of the details that didn’t translate to watching the fashion show via livestream! The shorter dress on the far right I think had a fur or a fringe fabric on the skirt; it had AWESOME movement to it!

Do you think it’s tough being the only bathing suit in a runway show? Like would you as a model feel way underdressed for the occasion? If this is a tank and shorts, and not vintage inspired swimwear, then disregard that question.

Oh hey, guess what? GOLD. And also, take note – armor’s on its way back in for fall 2014.

Phil and I loved this one, because it looked like flowers going around the model’s face.

And that’s a wrap on another SCAD Fashion Show – I had a blast watching this year’s show with my little boy Phil – maybe next year we’ll get tickets in time and actually go see it in person!