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2025 Fashion Week

Marking an inaugural year, NC State Fashion Week 2025 celebrated the creative expression of students from across campus and embodied the university’s interdisciplinary Think and Do spirit. Through signature events such as the AATS Fashion Expose, the Wilson College of Textiles’ Emerging Designers Runway Show and Textiles Showcase, and the College of Design’s Art2Wear, students transformed ideas into wearable art, showing that innovation at NC State takes many forms.

Full Calendar of Events

As part of Fashion Week 2026, over 10 signature and complementary events celebrated the creativity and community of designers across campus.

Emerging Designers Textile Showcase

Textile design students presented collections of woven designs, ready for market products and printed fabrics for their capstone exhibition, the Emerging Designers Textile Showcase. Seniors in the textile design concentration of the fashion and textile design major spent the spring semester working on their projects, which allow them full creative freedom over theme and content. Meet the designers from the Textile Showcase

Student Designer Damien Reed showcases her collection for the Emerging Designers Textile Showcase.
Student Designer Damien Reed showcases her collection for the Emerging Designers Textile Showcase.

Art2Wear 2026: Symbiosis

Meet the designers who contributed to Art2Wear 2026: Symbiosis. Symbiosis works to integrate designers’ understanding of interactions, push and pulls, constraints and appendages. Whether ancient interactions between humanity and nature or emerging engagements with technologies, this year explores polarities in interactions to showcase the impact of forces and the world’s curation when things come together.

A model in a red and white gown walks down a runway at the Gregg Museum during the Art2Wear 2026 fashion show, with other models and spectators in the background.
Students model wearable art in the 2026 Art2Wear show, this year hosted by the Gregg Museum. Photo by Becky Kirkland.

Emerging Designers Runway Show

Seniors in the fashion design concentration of the fashion and textile design major get the opportunity to accumulate their four years of skills and studies in the Emerging Designers Runway Show. After a semester of designing, prototyping and constructing, their collections were presented at the closing event for Fashion Week 2026.

The collections ranged from celebrations of craftsmanship and folk art to avant-garde lines inspired by lampshades and playing cards. Students used techniques they learned in classes, such as hand beading, tailoring and fabric distressing, as well as a variety of technologies, such as CLO 3D CAD, Gerber and Lectra, to create the looks. Meet the designers from the Runway Show

Student designers complete the final runway walkthrough to a standing ovation as part of the Emerging Designers Runway Show.
Student designers complete the final runway walkthrough to a standing ovation as part of the Emerging Designers Runway Show.

AATS Fashion Exposé

From ready-to-wear crochet pieces to Mardi Gras inspired couture gowns, the African American Textile Society’s (AATS) annual fashion show didn’t disappoint. Every year, during NC State’s Pan-African week, the AATS hosts its exposé, platforming emerging and experienced designers within NC State and surrounding colleges. Each year is a different theme and this year’s theme was Culture & Heritage. Read more at the Nubian Message

A model poses on the runway during the 28th annual culture and heritage fashion expose held by the African American Textile Society in the Talley State Ballroom on Monday, April 20, 2026. This model is wearing a piece from Amelia Boys’s “Stone Meets Foliage” collection.
A model poses on the runway during the 28th annual culture and heritage fashion expose held by the African American Textile Society in the Talley State Ballroom on Monday, April 20, 2026. This model is wearing a piece from Amelia Boys’s “Stone Meets Foliage” collection. Photo via Diamond Williams