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Students
making fashion statements
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outed by Texas Monthly magazine
in December as students who seem
likely to add an innovative mark
to the high fashion world, Randy
Carrell and Nicole Paetzel are ex-
citing examples of the students at
work in NT's Center for Marketing
and Design.
Both were winners in last year's Artwear show in
Dallas, and both are students of Dr. Azam Gancci, who
is beginning to make a name for herself as a designer of
maternity clothes for executives and socialites.
Carrell's creation, which he modeled himself for Texas
Monthly, is a highly untraditional wool suit that was
part of the Artwear collection. The suit won him the
Brass Button Award for best senior collection. The suit
also was his entry in a national competition for wool
menswear, and his portfolio even now is being circulated
among major manufacturers.
Both Carrell and Ms. Paetzel, Houston residents, grew
up daydreaming what clothing really ought to look like.
Carell would mentally re-design the clothes he saw in
department store windows. Ms. Paetzel would think up
new outfits for her Barbie doll, which she would describe
for her mother to make.
Ms. Paetzel's innovations sometimes are achieved with
the use of thin wire to shape her fashion silhouettes.
Also a senior, she already has caught attention for her
new ideas in high fashion.
Dr. Gancci was contacted by Texas Monthly during
the summer and was able to contact a number of students
to make presentations to the magazine staff, she said.
"I think the quality of talent in my classes is very
high—the students are a pleasure to work with," she
said. "In the summer, the students were scattered, so I
was only able to contact a few. These two were selected
for publication, but I think the students realize the response
was enthusiastic, favorable, to all of them who had the
opportunity to show their work."
Carol Mitchell, assistant director of the center, said
the high quality of the students' work is being noted in
the fashion industry.
"We are in an ideal location, so close to the Dallas
market, and the industry has been increasingly sup-
portive," she said. "In addition, I think we have built
a very strong Center for Marketing and Design."
The interdisciplinary center now includes the design
program in the art department, fashion merchandising
in the School of Human Resource Management, marketing
in the College of Business Administration, and industrial
technology in the College of Education. Students can
study varied aspects of the fashion business, and students
studying fashion design learn not only the steps of haute
couture design, but also study the physical properties of
the fabrics, how to cut them, sew them and finish them.
The results have been outstanding, and in Artwear
'88, those results will once more be displayed for the
industry to look at, Mrs. Mitchell said. Artwear, which
will be held May 12 in Dallas, has been underwritten
with a $20,000 grant from Foley's.
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