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Calling all fashion design students at The Art Institute of Phoenix!

Imagine having the opportunity to create your own take on a classic staple that has invigorated and inspired fashion all over the world: the iconic White Shirt!

The Institute is providing all fashion design students with this opportunity that will coincide with the fabulous exhibition titled “The White Shirt According To Me. Gianfranco Ferre” happening at the Phoenix Art Museum! If you are interested in applying, please see student instructors Gerre Heron or Helen Nosova to find out more information.

Here is a bio taken from the Phoenix Art Museum regarding the exhibition happening on November 4th, 2015 to March 6, 2016. Hurry! Time is moving quickly and the exhibition is nearly a month away!

Known as the “architect of fashion” and the purveyor of “power dressing,” Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferré never ceased to view the white shirt as the archetypal expression of his approach to design and style.

Repeatedly reconstructed and redefined in a ceaseless quest for new cultural and formal interpretations, Ferré’s white shirt was simultaneously a magnificent obsession, a creative diversion, a symbol of ideal beauty and a personal means of communicating the infinite possibilities of fashion and design. A constant presence and major theme throughout Ferré’s 30-year career, the white shirt became the designer’s “hallmark of style” and a “lexicon of contemporary elegance.”

A graduate of Milan Polytechnic Institute in architecture, Ferré began his own label in 1978 by launching a woman’s prêt-à-porter collection and later a men’s clothing, a wide range of accessories and his own Alta Moda line in Rome. From 1989-1997, Gianfranco Ferré was appointed Artistic Director of Christian Dior. Known for his classic but powerful clothes constructed in the highest quality materials, Ferré’s designs represent the elegance and cache of “made in Italy.”

The White Shirt According to Me. Gianfranco Ferré includes a selection of 27 of Ferré’s most significant white shirts created over the course of his career (1982-2006). Sketches, technical designs, photographs and videos from the archives of the Gianfranco Ferré Foundation will offer visitors the chance to go beyond the confines of fashion and examine the methods, techniques and precision Ferré applied to each of his designs.

This exhibition is designed, produced and curated by the Gianfranco Ferré Foundation and by the Prato Textile Museum Foundation.