Fashion Arts and Business students displayed collections of like pieces for a fashion museum for their Fashion History and Terminology class.
Students curated exhibits, linking them together through similarities. They then highlighted the pieces in the LRC Wednesday morning, styling the pieces with items from the Humber Boutique.
Attendees of the fashion museum could scan a QR code that brings them to a website where students curate pages to list their items with an exhibit overview.
The collection displayed at the entrance of the museum was the passing Threads collection, where students showed off hand-me-down items from their family members.
Aleksa Ritchie showcased a Vashivanya shirt, a traditional Ukranian blouse. She styled the shirt with a long red beaded necklace which is typically styled with the blouse.
In the same exhibition, Mikaella Ageday showed off her favourite clothing item, her letterman jacket gifted to her by her mother.
Ageday received the jacket when she turned 13 from her mom, who also got the jacket when she was 13.
“My mom got it when she was 13 for Christmas and It was very expensive back then in ‘89 ... and it stood the test of time,” she said. “It's very iconic to my look so it's great to have it on display and to have, you know, other people see it,” she said.
Another collection that included items from family members was the evening bags with historical elegance exhibit. The collection showed purses given to the students by their friends and family.
Blaze Gordon displayed a bag she received from her grandma who was gifted the bag from her friend who died.
When Gordon opened the purse to examine it before she displayed it, she even found the pamphlet from her friend’s wedding who gave her the bag.
“It's so funny because I literally, I found a Presto (card), I found a little bus ticket in there, and I found the wedding pamphlet ... so literally the last time she wore it was at her late friend's wedding,” she said.
The fashion museum was the program's first time throwing this event. The museum allows students to apply their learning from this class to this final project, said Jennifer Reitano, the fashion arts and business program coordinator.
Students put together items given the knowledge they learned from class, a common theme being the era of the clothing pieces.
Elizabet Nagy displayed a pink Playboy tracksuit as a part of the Y2K Showcase. She chose to exhibit this suit because she wants to be a 2000s designer post-grad.
“I just really like the 2000s fashion. I think it’s really nice and we should bring it back,” she said.
The students used items from the Humber Boutique to style their pieces in a way they felt matched the categories they chose.
The Humber Boutique also sold items at the entrance of the event where people could purchase clothing pieces as a pop-up.
