The talent and vision of a group of BFA Design students and their mentors will be on full display during New York Fashion Week 2016 through a public art exhibition on Madison Avenue, curated by Linda Fargo, Senior Vice President and Fashion Director of Bergdorf Goodman, hosted by Madison Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) and directed by Yelena Deyneko, Co-Founder of Spirit & Flesh magazine.

Entitled "The Language of Fashion," the project was originally an assignment created by BFA Design faculty member Olga Mezhibovskaya for her second year type design students. Mezhibovskaya asked them to create textile designs using solely typography and subsequently, to create paper dress models from their designs. The students presented their designs to SVA instructors Chris Austopchuk and Yelena Deyneko of Spirit & Flesh, who pitched the idea for expanded exposure of these designs into realized dresses. Linda Fargo then asked a group of some of the fashion industry's top designers to mentor the students and to help transform their typography graphic illustrations into wearable fashion.

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