Description
Under the theme Fashioning Belonging, Year 3 BFA Fashion Design students in the Fashion Product pathway set out to investigate how design can give voice to communities, honor diverse identities, and challenge systems of exclusion, with D&A Group's edge paint and surface-finishing systems as core tools of expression.
A masterclass led by the D&A team opened the collaboration, sharing professional craft standards and expert material application. In their Design and Specialized Studio courses, students moved from design inquiry, material research and prototyping through to a refined body of fully realized fashion products. D&A returned for the mid-process critique to contribute industry perspectives and help select work for final realization.
D&A Group's finishing systems, edge polymers, primers, fillers, color layers, and topcoats, functioned not merely as technical resources but as a conceptual medium, allowing students to articulate ideas around belonging, memory, and cultural sensitivity, producing work that is at once technically ambitious and socially engaged.
Learn more about our BFA Fashion Design program at: https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/bfa-fashion-design/
PARTICIPATING STUDENTS:
Chris Chan
Thomas (Yutao) Chen
Nova (Junyi) Cheng
Kiona Fisher
Emerson Fleurant
Chiweng Gan
Finn Hackney
Karen (Silok) Lei
Capri Lico
Zeri Lopez
Ellie Odle
Grace Park
Xintong Pei
Robert Price
Sophia Rocco
Kunye Shen
Diaxi Sun
Hannah Sun
Maria-Luna Vallejo Jimenez
You Wu
Jiayi Zeng
Ruojun Zhang
Yuan Zhang
Diane Zhao
PROJECT LEADS, PARSONS:
Deshon Varnado, Director of Curriculum & Partnerships, Assistant Professor of Design & Justice
Stone Hubbard, Part Time Assistant Professor
WITH SUPPORT FROM:
Charlie Morris, Program Administrator
FACULTY, FASHION PRODUCT AND PRODUCT/COLLECTION:
Aneta Genova, Stone Hubbard, Yici Zhao, and Miguel Villalobos
THANK YOU:
The BFA Fashion Design program is grateful for D&A Group's support through product donations, scholarships, awards, and as an official partner for the 2027 BFA Runway Showcase.