ASU FIDM faculty present designs at LA Fashion in the Park event
ASU FIDM faculty member Galina Mihaleva presents her designs at the Fashion in the Park event in downtown Los Angeles. Photo by FJ Gaylor.
ASU FIDM recently hosted Fashion in the Park, an informal evening gathering for members of both the Arizona State University community and the FIDM community in Los Angeles.
Held in Grand Hope Park in downtown Los Angeles, the event showcased designs by ASU FIDM faculty, worn by professional models who mingled with the attendees.
Steven Tepper, dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, offered a welcome, followed by Melita Belgrave, associate dean for culture and access in the Herberger Institute, and Dennita Sewell, director of ASU FIDM. Faculty designers were on hand during the evening to talk about their work, and DJ Peezy provided the music.
“It was absolutely wonderful to see students so directly engaged with the work of ASU FIDM faculty, seeing firsthand the diverse wealth of knowledge and experience from which they will be learning,” said Remington Reble, program manager for ASU FIDM.
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Miguel Barragán, former director of the product development program with FIDM and now assistant director of student success and curriculum for ASU FIDM, and students (left to right) Luna Miranda from La Habra, California, Isabella Koppenhafer from Loma, Colorado, Lindsay Carbajal from Moreno Valley, California, and Taylor Craig from Seal Beach, California, admire a model wearing a design by ASU FIDM faculty member Galina Mihaleva at the Fashion in the Park event at Grand Hope Park in downtown Los Angeles.
Photo by FJ Gaylor
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Miguel Barragán talks with students and ASU FIDM faculty member Shaun Samson (wearing a lanyard), whose work is featured on the model at the right. The look on the model is one that has been worn by A$AP Rocky. Other ASU FIDM faculty who showed work during the informal modeling were Cullanete Bloom, who showcased couture lingerie, and Marina Leight, who shared looks from her spring/summer ’24 collection.
Photo by FJ Gaylor
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Steven J. Tepper (left), dean of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, and Melita Belgrave, Herberger Institute associate dean for culture and access, talk with students at the Fashion in the Park event in downtown Los Angeles.
Photo by FJ Gaylor
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Models wearing designs by ASU FIDM faculty members Galina Mihaleva and Irina Tevzadze line up in front of the audience at the ASU FIDM Fashion in the Park event in downtown Los Angeles.
Photo by FJ Gaylor
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Students examine designs by ASU FIDM faculty member Galina Mihaleva at the Fashion in the Park event in downtown Los Angeles.
Photo by FJ Gaylor
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ASU FIDM faculty member Vanessa Newsome, an expert in computer-aided design and fashion technical design who has taught at FIDM for 18 years, talks with students at the Fashion in the Park event in downtown Los Angeles.
Photo by FJ Gaylor
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Models showcase designs by ASU FIDM faculty at the Fashion in the Park event at Grand Hope Park in downtown L.A. on Aug. 31.
Photo by Marisa Benincasa
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