JUMPSTART FASHION SHOW 2016: HAND X MACHINE

JUMPSTART FASHION SHOW 2016: HAND X MACHINE Sponsored by Century 21 Department Store Now in its 24th year, the annual Jumpstart Fashion Show always gets the fall season jumping with excitement at Moore College of Art & Design. In the past, Fashion Design students have been charged with conceptualizing, designing and constructing garments in three weeks on themes inspired by everything from ballet tutus to urban camouflage. This year, again in just three weeks, they have constructed pieces by hand and machine inspired by fashions exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's MANUS X MACHINA: Fashion in an Age of Technology. Is the handmade more valuable and the machine-made less so? Andrew Bolton, head curator of the Met’s Costume Institute and curator of MANUS X MACHINA, says that “the mediator between the hand and the machine must be the heart.” Moore’s students traveled to New York City on the fifth day of fall classes to see the exhibition and it is that experience that inspired their Jumpstart 2016 fashions. On October 4, over 500 people attended the show where juniors and seniors’ garments filled the runway and accessories designed by sophomores were on display. There were a number of pieces created using a 3D printer and/or laser cutter, as well as those utilizing feathers, flowers, leather, patchwork, scuba knit and neoprene, embroidery, lacework and more details. “The most inspiring and important thing I learned from the MANUS X MACHINA exhibit at the M