From high production, high fashion and high pressure, the FAST models are experiencing it all. The annual Fashion and Student Trends at UCLA show will feature numerous models coming from vastly different backgrounds related to their experience in fashion, and specifically, modeling. Read more...

Photo: (From left to right) Kyle Lee, Quinn Wynacht, Thao Vy Huynh and Robby Wong gaze at the camera. In bringing the designers’ vision to life, models add their own stylistic choices on the runway. (Photo by Shengfeng Chien/Daily Bruin staff. Photo illustration by Isabella Lee/Illustrations director)

This post was updated May 27 at 10:21 a.m. With “Fetale,” Nancy Nan and Ashley Chen are cutting constraints on gender expression. The two designers are joining forces in the “Fetale” collection, which marks their second runway show and first collaboration. Read more...

Photo: Ashley Chen looks at her sketchbook. Chen, a third-year economics and philosophy student, is collaborating with third-year student Nancy Nan to bring their fashion collection, “Fetale,” to the FAST at UCLA runway Friday. (Photo by Myka Fromm. Photo illustration by Isabella Lee/Illustrations director)

Bisola Amudipe and Chizaram Iwuanyanwu are embellishing the present with the future. For their second Fashion and Student Trends at UCLA collaboration, designers Amudipe, a third-year pre-international development studies student, and Iwuanyanwu, a fourth-year psychobiology student, have curated the collection “Haus of Utopia.” Iwuanyanwu said the line revolves around Afrofuturism, an aesthetic that explores utopian theories, the fantastical and the reclamation of African culture. Read more...

Photo: Chizaram Iwuanyanwu (left) and Bisola Amudipe (right) pose in an elevator opening. The two student-designers will be presenting their joint collection, “Haus of Utopia,” on Friday. (Photo courtesy of Bisola Amudipe and Chizaram Iwuanyanwu. Photo illustration by Isabella Lee/Illustrations director)

Ella Schindler and Maxwell Manning are paying homage to the dystopian sci-fi world they love. The annual Fashion and Student Trends runway show is set to kick off Friday at Pauley Pavilion, and designers Schindler, a fourth-year computational and systems biology student, and Manning, a fifth-year aerospace engineering student, have designed a nature-themed dystopian collection, titled “Epilogue,” that they will also model themselves. Read more...

Photo: (From left to right) Yuyi Tzeng, Ella Schindler, Maxwell Manning and Caleb Adefris stand together. Schindler and Manning are collaborating on a collection for the Fashion and Student Trends at UCLA 2023 runway show Friday. (Photo by Jenny Xu/Daily Bruin. Photo illustration by Isabella Lee/Illustrations director)