COD Fashion Students Earn Honors During Annual Fashion Show

Posted May 28, 2015 11:00 pm

Seven Fashion Studies students at College of DuPage earned honors during the standing-room-only fashion show "Elements." Click here for photos.

Joshua Yung (Wheaton) earned a $5,000 scholarship from Fashion Group International of Chicago and was named Most Outstanding First-Year Student. For the second consecutive year, Taylor Armstrong (Ottawa) received the Most Marketable Designs award, and she also was named Most Outstanding Second-Year Student.

Other award winners are as follows: Alison Amidei (Chicago), Judge's Choice for Outstanding Construction; Sarah Bhaidani (Aurora), Judge's Choice for Outstanding Creativity; Charity Lennox (Roselle), Judge's Choice for Outstanding Attention to Detail; Shivangi Kudeshia (Aurora), First-Year Runner-Up; and Daniela Pantazi (Bolingbrook), Second-Year Runner-Up.

"Everything about 'Elements' was about the students, from the fashions to the design and promotion of the show itself," said Fashion Studies Lecturer Melissa Heischberg, who coordinated this year's event. "And the students delivered in a big way! This was one of our most successful shows yet."

For more information about the Fashion Studies program at College of DuPage, visit www.cod.edu/programs/fashion.

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