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This week’s Good Eye caught up with some of the student designers participating in the UT Spectrum Fashion Show, which launches Austin Fashion Week. Only moments before their senior critique, some of them – like Mercedes Contreras, pictured here – were still hard at work on the finishing touches.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Natalie Poche, president of the University Fashion Group, designed her minimalist collection around Bauhaus influences.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
With the show’s focus on high-tech and performance fabrics, many students took advantage of vinyls pressed to look like quilted or embossed leather. Poche used a quilted black version for her jumpsuit.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Poche’s torpedo-shaped vinyl capelet top with matching skirt is a striking take on evening wear.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Ronit Joselevitz designed her collection around Mexico City, where her parents used to live. Simple, mod shapes and knits embellished with hand embroidery reflect her interpretation of Mexico City style.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Anh Nguyen’s stunning floor-length evening jacket in floral-embossed vinyl contrasts with the soft pleats of the cut-away gown beneath.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Flying ice-cream cakes lend a dreamy quality to the sporty minimalism of Tilde Snyder’s collection. She designed her unique collage prints using vintage recipe cards.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Snyder’s collection plays with transparency and stiff, molded shapes in sherbet colors.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Derly Gonzalez’s “angel-witch” outift is romantic enough for an enchantress, but with a splash of Jackie O thanks to that mod cocoon cape in sparkly tweed.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Haley Rowal presses the skirt of a satin evening gown right before the critique.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Another of Rowal’s evening designs, a luxe tailored suit with Eastern influences in gold satin jacquard.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Anna Lawson’s structured, flounced shirt in goldenrod evokes a Regency-era tailcoat.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Ellese Castillo (L) stands between two of her “concealed carry” creations, whose oversized bows and ruffles in mint chiffon hide holsters and ammo belts. Don’t worry, campus conceal hasn’t passed, so that mannequin isn’t packing.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Designer Molly Empey with her disaster-themed sportswear collection.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column. -
Satin-lined hoodie and high-waisted shorts in shades of smog.Follow our coverage of Austin Fashion Week, featuring daily event recommendations online at Chronique.Back to column.
The Good Eye: Spectrum Designers
