In Pictures: Parsons Festival celebrates student thesis collections

Parsons Festival is a 3-day annual event open to the public which showcases the graduating fashion students––all 500 of them this year, their work curated by theme over 3 floors of the school. Portfolios sit next to samples of textile development or custom made shoes, jewelry, sunglasses, handbags. The sheer magnitude of the student creativity on display is daunting. Garments hang from the rafters and graphic posters documenting society’s pressing issues of our time, which students regularly seek to address in their thesis collections, swing from walls and even lie across the floor.