Hasta La Ideas

San Francisco’s Academy Of Art University fashion students have been graced with the unparalleled opportunity to showcase their pieces at Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week since 2005, and this year, the recent graduates’ designs were no less impressive! This year’s collaboration between SF’s Britex Fabrics and fifteen students proved to be a great success, yielding a number of stylistically and colorfully cohesive looks that seemed to channel the current gray, gloomy weather and spit it out in the form of shimmering striped dresses, cloud-fluffy mohair coats, and dusky printed sweaters. While student design duo Emily Melville and Ivanka Georgieva are said to have stolen the show by closing it off with their series of fluid dresses and wool coats, many of the show’s other hobo-chic layered pieces reminded me of a high fashion rendition of Oliver Twist! If only all vagabonds could look this good…

Colors:black, white, creamy tan, charcoal grays & blues
Silhouettes: draped dresses, bulky coats, sheer shimmery tunics, long over-sized sweaters
Celeb Sighting: Nia Long

Check the slideshow for a selection of some of the runway’s most interesting looks!
Photo Credit: Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week