What is A2W?
Mission
Art2WearTM (A2W) is an educational event where students gain experience by coordinating and producing an annual show. Young designers are challenged to imagine, create, and inspire by expressing their point of view through wearable art. This highly anticipated show fuses the talents of several departments in the College of Design and beyond, exposing student designers to the broader field of fashion and wearable art. A2W attracts approximately 1,000 attendees in addition to encouraging participation by engaging the student body, the Raleigh community, and the broader design industry.
Vision
A2W’s vision is to challenge our audience and designers to question the boundaries and conventional definitions of “fashion.” We seek to explore new fashion ground and create new design pathways by encouraging our students to blend their technical skill with innovative technology.
Wearable Art
A product or sculptural piece that interacts with the body and serves as either a cultural artifact, an artistic expression, a reflector of society, outward illustration of a person’s identity (including but not limited to social class, religion, and ethnicity), starter of revolutions, economic building block, basic human need, or body covering.
Look at those details! Our designers really went all out back in 2019 for Circularity.
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Our models were killing these looks for Caesura 2018!!
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Jumping back all the way to 2017’s collection The Art of Deja Vu! In 2017 we presented a photo booth to take photos at for the show. Looks like our designers had a lot of fun! Would you guys like a photobooth this year?
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It's time for Throwback Thursday! Today we jump back all the way to The Virtue of Obsession in 2016. Enjoy these behind the scenes photos from the show. What’s your favorite A2W memory?
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It’s what we’ve all been waiting for! Time for our interest meeting announcement. Join us September 8th & 9th, 6-7pm in Burns Auditorium to learn how you can get involved.
We need students of all talents and experience to help make this years production bigger than ever.
We wants designers who are willing to experiment with fabric, VR/AR, and materials of all kinds to tell their story.
We can’t wait to see you there!
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We think its about time to re-introduce ourselves to our audience! We are Art2Wear, a student-led design organization at NC State. We give students from all majors a chance to participate in planning a full-scale runway show from the brand, to marketing, stage management, fundraising, designing a collection, and more.
We are more than just fashion designers, we are leaders, photographers, event planners, engineers, and more. We believe that everyone has the capacity to be a designer. And while we host a great runway show, we are more than the looks that walk across the stage every spring.
We are Art2Wear.
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