As the countdown to Fashion and Student Trends at UCLA’s annual runway ticks down, Kristi Le’s collection has all the time in the world. The first-time designer and fourth-year computational and systems biology student said her collection will walk FAST’s annual runway Friday at Pauley Pavilion while conveying a message of sustainability. Read more...

Photo: Kristi Le (left) and a model (right) pose together in white. “Encore” is Le’s first collection. (Photo by Anika Chakrabarti/Photo editor. Photo illustration by Isabella Lee/Illustrations director)

Cole Mueller is taking the World Wide Web to the runway. For his Fashion and Student Trends at UCLA runway debut, the third-year mechanical engineering student said his 2023 collection, “Antenna,” tells the tale of how technology changed communication over the past three decades, drawing stylistic influences from the ’90s and early 2000s. Read more...

Photo: (From left to right) Amber Zeng, Cole Mueller and Karen Park pose in brightly colored outfits. Mueller, a third-year mechanical engineering student, will be making his Fashion and Student Trends at UCLA runway debut Friday with his collection, entitled “Antenna.” Zeng and Park will model some of Mueller’s designs. (Photo by Halinda Yu. Photo illustration by Isabella Lee/Illustrations director)

Rafael Larrañaga’s designs are bringing Inglewood to Westwood on the FAST runway. The first-year design media arts student will showcase his first collection, entitled “Epitaph,” at the annual Fashion and Student Trends at UCLA’s 2023 runway show Friday. Read more...

Photo: (From left to right) Albert Acosta, Rafael Larrañaga and Leian Mulatre sit on a staircase. Larrañaga’s collection “Epitaph” is centered around Inglewood and Chicano culture. (Photo by Shengfeng Chien/Daily Bruin staff. Photo illustration by Isabella Lee/Illustrations director)