School of Visual Arts’ Students Have It Their Way With a Box of Designer Clothes
Photo: Kacie Tomita
For our latest installment of Out of the Box, we gave students in School of Visual Arts’ photography program some of spring’s most interesting fashion and accessories and asked them to explore them for a day through their own lens. What came back was an adventurous selection of images, each communicating different ideas and inspirations. Hailun Ma referenced Renaissance art and Chinese royal portraits using Dolce & Gabbana. Mahgameh Parvaneh drew a connection between Iranian women’s rights and identity through a pair of LaCrasia gloves, and Katelyn Kopenhaver updated iconic fashion photography with a Brooks Brothers necklace.
Click through our slideshow to see all these images and more.
*This article appears in the March 21, 2016 issue of New York Magazine.
Hailun Ma “When I saw this dress, I pictured a girl wearing it against a landscape. I wanted her to look like a queen. I’m from mainland China, a...
Hailun Ma “When I saw this dress, I pictured a girl wearing it against a landscape. I wanted her to look like a queen. I’m from mainland China, and I’m influenced by old Chinese royal portraits. I really love this Renaissance oval shape. I like to combine cultural things I found and mix them up together.”
Photo: Hailun Ma
Hailun Ma Photo: Hailun Ma
Fana Feng “If I had to describe my style, I might call it ‘body-based abstraction.’ When I work with abstracted parts of the body, my aim is not ...
Fana Feng “If I had to describe my style, I might call it ‘body-based abstraction.’ When I work with abstracted parts of the body, my aim is not to make something scary, disturbing, or sexualized. For me, the body is a repository of natural forms. I’m thinking about the experience of being human, of trying to make an identity.”
Photo: Fana Feng
Fana Feng Photo: Fana Feng
Fana Feng Photo: Fana Feng
Katelyn Kopenhaver “I have a lot of interest in how and why we give things meaning, especially in the fashion industry. That’s why I took an icon...
Katelyn Kopenhaver “I have a lot of interest in how and why we give things meaning, especially in the fashion industry. That’s why I took an iconic Richard Avedon picture and gave it new meaning. His images have so much fame embedded in them. As for the strawberry, I wanted to throw in a punch of something. The viewer has this weird thing that goes off in their brain, like, ‘Wait, is that 3-D or 2-D?’”
Photo: Katelyn Kopenhaver
Jessica Pettway “My style is a playfully structured mess. I’m really influenced by Surrealism, aliens, space movies, and ideas of ‘truth.’ I also...
Jessica Pettway “My style is a playfully structured mess. I’m really influenced by Surrealism, aliens, space movies, and ideas of ‘truth.’ I also get a lot of inspiration from nature. I keep iPhone photos of different plants that I see in parks and gardens, and the shapes and textures work their way into my photographs. I was inspired by the floral textures of the garments and wanted to create a floral overload.”
Photo: Jessica Pettway
Jessica Pettway Photo: Jessica Pettway
Jessica Pettway Photo: Jessica Pettway
Kacie Tomita “I picked these clothes because the colors were super-eccentric. Crazy pastels — beautiful and fluorescent. The sheerness and transp...
Kacie Tomita “I picked these clothes because the colors were super-eccentric. Crazy pastels — beautiful and fluorescent. The sheerness and transparency of the dress reminded me of releasing the old layers of winter to the renewal of spring.”
Photo: Kacie Tomita/©Kacie Tomita
Mahgameh Parvaneh “I was a photojournalist in Iran, always facing sad scenes, people dying. I didn’t want to just capture reality anymore. So I d...
Mahgameh Parvaneh “I was a photojournalist in Iran, always facing sad scenes, people dying. I didn’t want to just capture reality anymore. So I decided to become an artist. Iranian women have more freedom than before but are still fighting for basic rights. Iranians believe that white and black are modernist colors; that’s why I use white as my background: It signifies progressive life. I picked the gloves because I find them very mysterious and sexy. It’s about covering up parts of your identity, your fingerprints.”
Photo: Manhgameh Parvaneh
Idit Nissenbaum Photo: Idit Nissenbaum
Idit Nissenbaum Photo: Idit Nissenbaum
Idit Nissenbaum Photo: Idit Nissenbaum
Mischelle Moy Photo: Mischelle Moy
Mischelle Moy Photo: Mischelle Moy
Iris Xing Photo: Iris Xing
Mahgameh Parvaneh Photo: Maggie Parvaneh
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