Written by Hana Hyman
Photographs courtesy of Taylor Krankowski
Taylor Krankowski with model Eleanor, who is wearing one of Krankowski’s designs.
SCAD is buzzing with the news that no childrenswear designs will be featured in the fashion show this year. This is due to the runway’s lengthy and treacherous nature, which poses liability concerns with the child models. Thus, childrenswear designer Taylor Krankowski did not make it in to the fashion show.
The fashion show juror reviews took place last weekend. For Krankowski, her review was Friday. The juror review is the designer’s opportunity to meet with five to six professionals from within the fashion industry. The designers give two presentations of their work to two or three of the jurors at a time. This is a showcase of not only the collection, but also all of the branding materials that supplement it. These materials include hangtags, labels, leave behinds, and business cards.
“[The jurors] mentioned that my collection was of very European silhouettes, and they really liked the colors of everything and the innovative use of puffy paint and other materials that are not traditionally used in childrenswear,” said Krankowski. “They enjoyed my presentation. My leave behind was a party hat that was cone print, so it looks like an ice cream cone. It was flat so it could fit in the folder I gave them, and you could fold it together. My hangtags were ice cream cones. So, they enjoyed that and said it was a very professional presentation of everything. He liked the confidence in which I talked about my collection because I knew exactly the direction I wanted to go in and I achieved it very well.”
Krankowski, though not featured in the jury shows, attended both. “Everyone’s stuff looked awesome. It was a lot of fun too; it’s almost like a big celebration for the end of your work.” SCAD Atlanta fashion seniors arrived for the second jury show. This was the first time Savannah students got to view the Atlanta collections. Atlanta presented “really great outerwear,” according to Krankowski, and two unisex collections, both of which featured two pairs of garments per each sex.
After the jury show, SCAD hosted a “mock mingle” in the SCAD Museum of Art lobby, a chance to mill about and socialize with jurors and fellow designers while sipping on mocktails and munching on treats.
At last, all of the designers were able to take in each other’s work in their full glory. Even for just the Savannah designers, “the classes are separated by two different sides of Eckburg, so I hadn’t even seen over half of the stuff that was made… Even people’s pictures that they had put online that I had seen doesn’t do justice to what you see when you’re in person,” said Krankowski.
While not in the fashion show, Krankowski’s collection will be shown at the static show, which will be at Pei Ling Chan Gallery (322 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd) from 5-7 p.m. on May 15, 12-6 p.m. on May 16 and 12-6 p.m. on May 17.
Read this week’s update on Fashion Show model Tori Dubray.
