Threads: Complete Wrap Up

Jan 9, 2018
6 min read

So after last semester, I really tried to take a break from school work and especially Threads since it took up so much of my time, but in honor of school starting back up again, I wanted to give a look at what the other designers created for the Threads Fashion Show!!

Designer: Daniel Aiello

Hometown: Raleigh, NC

Email: jdaiello@ncsu.edu

Collection Title: ;Art is Free

Note: Daniel is the winner of Threads this year!!

Bio:

Daniel is a December graduating senior hoping to go into a career aimed at helping others through his passions of design, fashion, and the sustainability. Daniel never imagined that he would be on his way to begin a career in the fashion industry, but he hopes to use his education and future industry experiences better the world around him. Daniel hopes to create practical methods of sustainable garment manufacturing to be used by major companies around the world. His dream is to one day begin a non-profit company aimed at providing work for those in need, as well as implementing sustainable practices and lead as an example for industry.

Collection:

Daniel’s collection, ;Art is Free, is aimed to use ready-to-wear street fashion to send a message promoting the awareness of suicide and depression among millennials. Drawing inspiration from the song “Agnes” by Glass Animals, the collection uses hand printed techniques on vinyl fabics to convey a story the struggle with depression many people endure. Using the lyrics of the song, certain elements and words are highlighted specifically to identify the effects of suicide and depression.

The semi-colon, which is frequently seen in each design, is the symbol of a movement started by Amy Bleuel, which promotes suicide and depression awareness. The semicolon is used by a writer at the end of a thought, but the writer decides that the sentence has not yet ended. Its symbolism relates to those who have attempted to take their life, but decided against it.

Designer: Sara Fallin

Hometown: Goldsboro, NC

Email: smfallin@ncsu.edu Collection Title: Sweet Commotion

Bio:

As a young girl, Sara was drawn to the world of fashion and art design, teaching herself how to sew at the age of 12. Soon after, her hobby developed into a passion. When she entered high school, she started taking fashion design classes to learn proper technique and skill. After school hours, Sara enjoyed assisting in designing and sewing the costumes for her school’s theatre department. During her career at NC State’s College of Textiles, she has shown her work in the 2016 THREADS Preshow and competed as 1 of 6 finalists in the American Heart Association’s “Hemline for Hearts” competition in January of 2017. Apart from school, Sara enjoys practicing yoga, painting, music, and traveling. She is an alumni of Sigma Kappa Sorority and will graduate in the spring of 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Textile Management.

Collection Description:

Inspired by the “Riot Grrrls,” a feminist punk movement by musicians during the 1990’s, “Sweet Commotion” is a ready-to-wear collection designed for the young female who is beginning to establish herself in the world, but still searching for her “place”. The collection is made to display her inner frustrations and fierceness in a mature style. With a cross between sophistication and modern day punk, “Sweet Commotion” is made of interchangeable pieces that can be worn in both casual and formal occasions.

Designer: Bailey Williams

Hometown: Apex, NC

Email: bmwill13@ncsu.edu

Collection Title: S P R I N K L E

Bio:

Bailey plans to graduate in May of 2018 and start her designing career in the fast fashion industry. Bailey was known as the “fashionista” of the family, but never could have pictured herself at the number one textile university! When she was in high school at Middle Creek of Apex, NC, she started a gymnastics team and played soccer for all four years. Not only does she love sports, she enjoys spending time in the great outdoors, playing with her tiny, 5-pound pooch and eating anything that involves chocolate. She is looking forward to designing an entire collection this semester, testing her strengths, growing as a designer and producing fun and functional clothing.

Collection Description:

Bailey’s entire collection is based off America’s one true love; ice cream! Not only does 87% of Americans have ice cream in their refrigerators, but it is Bailey’s all-time favorite food. She loves the bright colors, yummy flavors and all the happiness that comes from eating the sweet treat! “Sprinkle” is a pop culture fashion line that focuses on bold textures that are wearable yet spunky and fun!

Designer: Holland Miller

Hometown: Charlotte, NC

Email: hrmiller@ncsu.edu

Collection Title: The Green Light

Bio:

Holland was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the third and final sibling in her family to attend North Carolina State University after graduating from Ardrey Kell High School in 2014! Holland has been dreaming about being a designer since she was little. At seven years old she was asking for colored pencils and sketchbooks for Christmas. Ever since she has known that she would go into the fashion industry! Her favorite animal is a monkey and she is counting down the days till graduation so she can finally get her own dog!

Collection Description:

Holland’s collection, The Green Light, is inspired by the classic novel The Great Gatsby. The collection focuses on the symbolism of the green light—Jay Gatsby’s symbol of hope throughout the tragic love story. The collection starts out with the use of bright green fabrics to portray the gleaming hope Gatsby has. As the collection continues every garment will being to have more and more black elements added to it until the final piece is all black, symbolizing Gatsby’s hope coming to an end. All the silhouettes and details are inspired by the roaring twenties fashion filled with simple silhouettes paired with immense details!

Designer: Ziwen Qiu

Hometown: Shanghai, China

Email: zqiu3@ncsu.edu

Collection Title: Oriental New Blood

Bio:

Ziwen Qiu is a Graduate student in College of Textile, whose background is fashion design and engineering. She works hard in professional study, completing her knowledge learning of Bachelor degree in Shanghai Donghua University within 3 years. She spent her childhood in Shanghai where she grew her curiosity to the world. She has traveled to European and Asian countries for several times. Being engaged in fashion design is a way to present her understanding from her experience.

Collection Description:

Oriental New Blood is an East Asian street style women’s collection for SS18. It targets the group of generation Z, the young women born between 1995 and the early 2000s. The loose look, with oversized items and details, have been trendy in recent years, presenting the love of leisure and sports styles, the feeling of insecurity and the eagerness for self-expression among the post-Millennials. The color palette and the motifs are inspired by Japanese tattoos, hitting the trend of eastern culture broadcasting. The woven fabric used consists of printed charmeuse silk and cotton twill to obtain most draping shape and some stiff outline. The pure colored knit looks are produced by the whole garment knitting machine.

Designer: Caitlin McCall

Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Email: mccallcaitlin@mac.com

Collection Title: QMCAT

Bio:

Caitlin obtained her BSc in Fashion Design at DAAP (University of Cincinnati) in 2015. She is currently earning her MSc in Textile and Apparel Technology and Management, pursuing a deep interest in sustainability in the fashion apparel sector.

Collection:

This concept is derived from the equation q=mcΔT, which is used to determine the heat energy gained or lost by a substance as it is heated or cooled. QMCAT reinterprets this equation in terms of human consumption: how much change is needed to restore the health of our oceans and mitigate the effects of climate change, ensuring a fair quality of life for future people? What expectations are realistic and inclusive?

QMCAT considers effective, circular fashion to encourage consumer recycling through either current behaviors or convenient alternatives. Using nonwoven textiles*, soft notions, and material-homogenous designs, this Fast-Fashion oriented collection is optimized for rapid Closed Loop Recycling and improving the environmental footprint of the most voraciously consumed apparel sector.

*Nonwoven Textiles for this collection were generously supplied by NatureWorks LLC, Berry Plastics, Fitesa, and Uniquetex.

Designer: Wei Peng

Hometown: Changsha, China

Email: wpeng2@ncsu.edu

Collection Title: Lethal

Bio:

Wei born and grown up in Changsha, an ancient city famous for its embroidery and spicy chilies in China. In his childhood, his mother is a traditional Chinese Xiang embroidery craftswomen and stimulated his interest in textile design. After studying 4 years in Textile Design and Engineering at Donghua University, Shanghai. He has been touched by the fashion of this city. At the last academic year, He was invited by Seazon textile to prepare a show for 2016 Shanghai Fashion Week as an assistant designer. He loves Music and keep writing songs with his favorite guitar. He believes in music and design will be an integral part of his life. Now Wei is a graduate student in NCSU, trying to accumulate strength for becoming a good Fashion designer, and will graduate in the Summer of 2018 with a master’s degree in Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management.

Collection Description:

Inspiration came from those dangerous creatures like centipede, fire ant and poisonous plants. This design collection would be a young men’s line including whole garment knitting, machine embroidery and digital printing design by using nature fabric like silk, cotton twill and denim. This collection is trying to present the attractive and dangerous side of men with casual to close-fitting silhouette.