Five years ago, Katie Hogan ’23 was a high school junior at Moravian Academy in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and her interest in fashion design brought her to the annual Spring Runway Show, in Barton Hall.
The lights, the music, the runway – it all resonated deeply, and a few months later she applied early-admission to Cornell, to major in fashion design. She looked forward to the day when she could see her designs strutting haughtily down the Barton runway.
But the pandemic struck midway through her freshman year, and that spring’s runway show was scrapped. The show took a couple of different forms the last two years, but on March 11, Hogan – and approximately 90 other designers, from beginning to advanced – will finally get to see their creations under the Barton Hall lights.
Mattie Nguyen ’25, director of design for levels 1/2 for the CFC, works on designs in a Human Ecology apparel studio ahead of the Cornell Fashion Collective Spring Runway Show on March 11.
