Winner of the UNDERFASHION CLUB SCHOLARSHIP
DASH student ANNA MORENO
For the first time, The Underfashion Club worked with Parsons School of Design to hold an intimate apparel design contest! Students competed over the theme “Modern Allure,” which prompted them to design lingerie that speaks to today’s woman. The Underfashion Club awarded cash prizes to the top two designers. On May 17th, 2016, five gorgeous garments, designed by Parsons School of Design seniors, were displayed at The Gallery in The Prince George Ballroom in Manhattan for the club to witness and vote for.
Design #1: Chicago Collection by Tianyang Li read more
As promised, here’s more about the 2015 FEMMY Gala’s Annual Student Design Contest!
The annual Femmy Gala honors leading intimate apparel industry retailers, manufacturers, suppliers, innovators and individuals recognized for outstanding lifetime achievement, and raises funds in support of its mission, “Education today for a better industry tomorrow.” The 2015 Gala, hosted by actress/producer Vivica A. Fox was held at Cipriani 42nd Street on February 3rd, and featured the organization’s 12th Annual Student Design Contest whose winners, chosen that night, received cash awards. read more
The three winners of the Femmy 2014 student design contest, “Shaping The Future”, have been featured in INTIMA Magazine‘s August 2014 issue!
1st: Cristina Ramos with “Beauty is Vein”
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SAIG committee announced that the new theme for this year’s Femmy awards will be “Shaping the Future”. Work with FIT students is already under way on this exciting new vision with support and mentoring from Professor Alexandra Armillas.
The committee has reviewed 12 original concept boards and voted on their 9 favorites.
”According to Suzanne Beck of the Saig Committee, the concepts ranged from very embellished, to strappy & sexy, to clean minimalist but all with a fresh new young twist. This year’s contestants have been asked to focus on the more practical side of design. read more
Each of the contestants in the “Midnight Garden” Student Design Contest told us a little bit about their pieces and the inspiration behind them in their interviews!
Tiffany Spagnuolo with Dark Bloom
1st Prize
Tessa Saccone with Moonlit Azaleas
2nd Prize
Sara Shanahan with Nocturnal Blossom
3rd Prize
Erin Brennan with Fleur de Rave
Judy Yang with Midnight Petals
Alina Kulik with Wilting Dream
The Student Design Contest of this year’s Femmy Gala was a huge success! This time around, the theme was “Midnight Garden”. The designs created by the talented FIT students were all incredibly beautiful, but only three of them could be named winners! Here are the previews of the most popular entries. More information about the pieces and the designers behind them will be available very soon, so keep an eye out!
#1 by Tiffany Spagnuolo #2 by Tessa Saccone #3 by Sara ShanahanOn February 1, at the Underfashion Club’s Femmy Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, six intimate apparel students from the Fashion Institute of Technology competed in the 8th annual student design contest. The contest is an integral part of the Underfashion Club’s mission to help educate, influence and attract new talent for the industry.
The six garments were displayed throughout the evening, and the 600+ gala attendees representing all facets of the international intimate apparel community cast their votes, as follows: read more
We at Underfashion Club would like to send out a big thank you to everybody who attended the Femmy Awards last week! For those of you who didn’t attend, fear not! You can view pictures from this years (as well as the previous years) awards ceremony and dinner on our Picasa account which is accessible by clicking the following link. FEMMY AWARDS 2010
Congrats to award winners:
-Ecka Andersson with a First Place prize of $4,000
-Kristen Racanati with a 2nd Place prize of $3,000 and
-Alana Bauer with a 3rd Place prize of $2,100 read more