Creativity rules the evening at the Art Institute's Spring Show

image:S.Whittle for Style Wylde

With everything from pheasant-feather collars to condom-clad coats, the students showing their work during Saturday night's Art Institute San Francisco Spring Runway Show, displayed their remarkable creativity and innovation with highly conceptual, and well executed collections.

image:S.Whittle for Style WyldeThe largest entirely student-produced show on the West Coast,  the event featured 18 young designers, each of whom brought a unique perspective to their work.  Those perspectives which varied from Safari-inspired sportswear, to urban menswear, to a mash-up of McQueen and Mugler really spoke volumes to the wealth of talent and individuality in the San Francisco Bay Area.

With so much diversity between the collections,  the panel of industry judges, which included  local designers Bacca da Silva, Joseph Domingo, and Angela Medlin had a difficult task in chosing which student collections to award the top prices of the evening,  Best Construction, Best Creativity and Best overall design of the show. 

image: S. Whittle for Style Wyldeimage: S.Whittle for Style WyldeAfter a lengthly deliberation during which the audience was treated to animated shorts created by students in the visual arts program, the judges decision was announced. Overall winners were Dallas Coulter for Construction (work pictured top left), Autumn Carlisle for Creativity (work  pictured left) and Cameron Stewart for Overall Best Design (work pictured right). 

Runners up in the three categories were also announced: Rachel Poulis for Construction, Chad Leal for Creativity, and Justin Jameson for Overall Design. 

For more information on the Art Institute San Francisco please visit the school's  official homepage, and for more images from the Spring 2011 Student show check out The Style Wylde Galleries.