Fashion Students Set a Pattern of Winning Ways

University of Cincinnati fashion design juniors Jay Ott, 22, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Dong Eun Kim, of Daegu, Korea, were just named winners in a national scholarship competition sponsored by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Each won by designing a fashion collection, sketching their concepts and detailing how – technically – the garments would be produced.  It’s not the first time that Kim’s work has received national attention.  In 2003, he was one of a handful of fashion students chosen to represent the U.S. at Paris’

International Competition of Young Fashion Designers

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“The awards are indeed prestigious because the Council of Fashion Designers of America includes the country’s top designers judging the work of students,” explained Margie Voelker-Ferrier, coordinator of UC’s fashion design program, part of the top-ranked College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.

The UC students were two of ten winners nationally, all of whom will be able to use their winnings for senior-year tuition.  The schools represented among the top-ten winners were

• University of Cincinnati
• Academy of Art University, San Francisco
• Otis College of Art & Design, Pasadena
• Parsons School of Design, New York City

Others invited to participate in the competition included

• California College of the Arts, San Francisco
• Drexel University, Philadelphia
• Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City
• Kent State University, Kent, Oh.
• Philadelphia University
• Pratt Institute, New York City
• Rhode Island School of Design, Provident, R.I.
• Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga.
• Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.