ANNOUNCING
by CHARLOTTE COFFMAN
A Tartan for Clan Cornell
It's official. Cornell is the only Ivy League school to have a tartan registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority.
It's family. FSAD's own Jessie Fair '09 designed the tartan in collaboration with Pendleton Woolen Mills. Mort Bishop III '74, president of Pendleton and a member of the Cornell Board of Trustees, noted, "The Cornell tartan provides a way to celebrate Cornell, and also raise awareness and money for the Cornell Far Above campaign."
It's gorgeous. The pattern is a balanced design of intersecting stripes of three different widths. The colors are predominantly wine red and cream with touches of charcoal grey and light blue-grey. The soft twill fabric is woven in Pendleton's Northwest mill using 100 percent virgin merino wool.
It's just the beginning. Pendleton will use this tartan design to create official Cornell scarves, stadium blankets and other products. The tartan has also been used in Feedbak, an experimental menswear clothing line developed by Mac Bishop '11 and Jeff Aziakou '10 of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Undergraduate Business Program. Garments in the Feedbak line were created and produced by a team of apparel design students in FSAD.
Available now are mufflers measuring 13 inches wide and 62 inches long and finished with twisted fringe. The recommended care is dry cleaning. To purchase a scarf, stop by the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, 208 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, M-F, 9AM – 4PM. You may also mail a check payable to Cornell University ($50/each scarf plus $5 handling/shipping) to the attention of Judy Wiiki at the above address. Sorry, we are not equipped to accept credit cards.
Read more:
Cornell's Official Tartan Plaid
Cornell Tartan
Feedbak
FSAD Student Has Winning Big Idea
FSAD senior Constanza Ontaneda and her business partner Angeline Stuma, a senior in Applied Economics and Management, received $1000 as the second place award in the Social Enterprise category of the Big Idea Competition sponsored by Entrepreneurship@Cornell. Their company Bernales & Goretti will offer premium, custom-made clothing for professional women over 40 who have difficulty finding standard-sized garments that fit well. Sample garments from their unique clothing line are shown in the adjacent photo. The fabric, garments, and ethnic detailing will be made in Peru with the intention to provide meaningful work and economic development to workers in rural villages.
Constanza spent much of her youth in Peru and her family has strong ties to Peruvian artisans and the apparel business. Her pride in Incan designs and Peruvian culture are evident in her FSAD projects and in her designs for Bernales & Goretti. She is also justly proud of another recent award — $10,000 from the national competition 100 Projects for Peace through the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill. She and Angeline are also members of eLab, the Student Agencies and Entrepreneurship@Cornell business accelerator for undergraduates.
Readers may recall that Constanza has authored articles for this newsletter and assisted with several of the FSAD youth programs. We wish her well as she finishes her degree and heads out into the business world.
Read more:
Big Idea Winners
Student Artist Spotlight
Cornell Design League Celebrates Silver Anniversary
The Cornell Design League celebrated its 25th anniversary in style. April 4th found more than 3,000 people enjoying Once Upon a Runway, a fashion show that featured 200 original ensembles from more than 60 student designers. Variety and professionalism were the catchwords. Tailored menswear in black and copper gave way to lacey concoctions and circus-themed garments. Hand-painted silks competed with wool tartans and edgy synthetics. All ensembles represented the individuality and creativity of the designer.
The Cornell Design League (CDL) was formed in 1984 to provide students interested in designing apparel a chance to express their creativity outside of the classroom by producing a fashion show every spring. The show is completely student organized and student run. They do not receive academic credit for their efforts. A majority of CDL fashion designers are FSAD students, but the organization welcomes all full-time Cornell students to participate. FSAD offers the only fashion design program in the Ivy League and the only Ph.D. in apparel design in the United States.
Read more:
Cornell Design League
Cornell Chronicle
Teen Vogue Article
