{"id":2051,"date":"2016-04-27T13:53:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/2016\/04\/27\/art2wear-2016\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T08:25:07","slug":"art2wear-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/2016\/04\/27\/art2wear-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Art2Wear 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

For 15 years, the annual Art2Wear<\/a> fashion show has been challenging young designers at NC State to create wearable art and put it in front of a passionate audience.<\/p>\n

What was once a boutique campus event \u2014 first held in \u201cThe Pit\u201d at the College of Design<\/a> with a boombox for music and nearly as many models as attendees \u2014 has grown into the premier educational project of its kind<\/strong> in North Carolina and across the wider region, drawing a crowd of 4,000 people annually.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s show took place on April 22 at Talley Student Union. Working alongside the team of nine fashion designers \u2014 and the models who showcased their work \u2014 were student event planners, photographers, videographers, hair and makeup artists, fundraisers and more. Planning and executing Art2Wear demands an ensemble Think and Do performance.<\/p>\n

The value of the show for those students is not lost on Justin LeBlanc, an NC State alumnus and two-time contestant on the reality TV show \u201cProject Runway.\u201d LeBlanc, who initially studied to be an architect, found his love for fashion by entering Art2Wear in 2008. The former Caldwell Fellow<\/a> now works as an assistant professor at the College of Design \u2014 and serves as mentor to most of the show\u2019s designers.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt2Wear is where I got my start,\u201d says LeBlanc. \u201cI did not do fashion until Art2Wear, and it changed my life completely<\/strong>. So as the teacher now, I\u2019m on the other side of the table, and just seeing the students that create this work and seeing their passion and their desire to bring something to the audience \u2026 it\u2019s a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This post was originally published<\/a> in NC State News.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":"For 15 years, the annual Art2Wear<\/a> fashion show has been challenging young designers at NC State to create wearable art and put it in front of a passionate audience.\r\n\r\nWhat was once a boutique campus event \u2014 first held in \u201cThe Pit\u201d at the College of Design<\/a> with a boombox for music and nearly as many models as attendees \u2014 has grown into the premier educational project of its kind<\/strong> in North Carolina and across the wider region, drawing a crowd of 4,000 people annually.\r\n\r\nThis year\u2019s show took place on April 22 at Talley Student Union. Working alongside the team of nine fashion designers \u2014 and the models who showcased their work \u2014 were student event planners, photographers, videographers, hair and makeup artists, fundraisers and more. Planning and executing Art2Wear demands an ensemble Think and Do performance.\r\n\r\nThe value of the show for those students is not lost on Justin LeBlanc, an NC State alumnus and two-time contestant on the reality TV show \u201cProject Runway.\u201d LeBlanc, who initially studied to be an architect, found his love for fashion by entering Art2Wear in 2008. The former Caldwell Fellow<\/a> now works as an assistant professor at the College of Design \u2014 and serves as mentor to most of the show\u2019s designers.\r\n\r\n\u201cArt2Wear is where I got my start,\u201d says LeBlanc. \u201cI did not do fashion until Art2Wear, and it changed my life completely<\/strong>. So as the teacher now, I\u2019m on the other side of the table, and just seeing the students that create this work and seeing their passion and their desire to bring something to the audience \u2026 it\u2019s a beautiful thing.\u201d"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For 15 years, the annual Art2Wear fashion show has been challenging young designers at NC State to create wearable art and put it in front of a passionate audience. Watch how the 2016 show unfolded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"ncstate_wire","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-_from-newswire-collection-363"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/a2w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}