Beyond Fashion

Every year the Vignelli Center for Design Studies sponsors an annual and much anticipated event, Beyond Fashion. A celebration of design and community, Beyond Fashion weaves together a diverse collection of garments crafted by select local designers and students from RIT College of Art and Design’s Metal and Jewelry Design and Industrial Design.

2023

Theme: The Grid is Everything

Student Participants

RIT Fabricks
Jacob Yoon
Christopher Rose
Robbie Dyson
Bennett Hu
Sean Lyons
Eddie Elliot
Liam Breakell
Josiah “Jazz” Zehr
Gabrielle Payne
Gail Hooke
Molly Gershon
Dom Schmieder
Kiara Hall
Avani Higuchi
Andrew Lin
Joy Zeng
Kennedy Intihar

RIT Metals
Zixuan Ni
Ruichu Yu
Ruorui Mu
Yixuan Xia
Cece Plympton
Sophia Shufelt
Yuntian Zhou
Nastassia Witte
Kajel Snehalbhai Shah
Kai Forman

RIT Industrial Design
Natalie Faiola
Graham Freer
Bella Lancelotta
Alley Babcock
Josh Gleason
Gates Andrews

Designers
Wendy Marks
Pat Pauly
Andrew Scott
Margaret Manders
Rita DeNicuolo
Kelly Gampietro

Team
Etta Arnold, Producer
Emma Williamson, Producer
Alley Babcock, Content Producer
Maddy Schoenfeld, Executive Producer

RIT New Media Design
Farah Ahamed
Shaun Auriemma
Lauryn Beale
Morgan Best
Bryan Bigham
Chelsea Bishop
Kamy Bitely
Sara Chappel
Alexa Contreras
Ryan Costolnick
Grady Crossland
John Curley
Snigdha Das
JamieLynn Gallagher
Drew Genel
Katelin Griffin
Liana Grosser
Joseph Jimenez
Will Kettell
Lily Kniseley
Morgan Kong
Yohermry Kpodo
Cassidy Kress
Sydney Lewkowicz
Corina Lougie
Braelyn Mcfarland
Alexis Mildren
Patrick Okolo
Jon Orris
Lena Pang
Griffin Paradee
Allison Regnante
Nyasia Revill
Lily Rice
Brandon Riley
Jennifer Saloutenko
Heather Shields
Rachel Sisson
Noa Spanier
Caitlin Tak-Nguyen
Tyler Townley
Jaelin Vernon
Max Wakeling
Annelise Wall
Gwendolyn Williams
Joy Zeng

2022

Theme: The Subway Map

Student Participants

RIT Fabricks
Bennett Hu
Robbie Dyson
Andrew Lin
Eddie Elliott
Jacob Yoon
Joy Zeng

RIT Soft Studio
Nolan Smith
Kevin Zhao
Cole Szczerbacki
Xiaodong Nie
Ginevra Godwin
Daniel Martinez

Team
Massimo Greco, Producer
Sophia Scaravillio, Producer
Maddy Schoenfeld, Executive Producer
Josh Owen, Director, VCDS

RIT Metal
Nastassia Witte
Ruorui Mu
Mingyu Han
Tori Wicksall
Sophia Shufelt
Stella Huang
Hannah Wilson
Kajal Shah
Yayan Zhang
Yixuan Xia
Madeeha Ahmad
Zixuan Ni

Designers
Jenna Gagnier
Abigail Benkovich

2021

Theme: Vignelli

Student Participants

RIT Soft Studio
Robert Deane
Ariella Knight
Shen Liu
Jos Mayo
Evan Murphy
Tayo Oke
Jacqueline Qiu
Zaheer Shujayee
Anqi Zhu
Giacomo Barbero
Evangeline Crouch
Kiley Gallant
Gillian Gallets
Mikey Gambino
Phoebe Huey
Matt Kurkoski
Jake Leonardi
Xiaodong Nie
Lena Ohara
Gwen Riemer
Nathalie Simon

RIT Metal
Seojung Kang
Yuan Yuan Li
Yaoxuan Liu
Zixuan Ni

Designers
Jenna Gagnier
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Team
Julia Abbonizio
Maddy Schoenfeld
Josh Owen