Kenzie Alberts
Fashion – Design / Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
School of Fashion
I’m an artist of many mediums. Growing up, pencil and paper were my main tools, but my grandma taught me to sew at a young age too and I fell in love with the process of creating in any form I could. I also love singing and sang in every choir I could through my adolescence, which led me to study Vocal Performance for two years at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music before transferring to the Academy of Art in 2022. Fashion has always been the main way I express myself, and since working with my hands has always been my biggest coping mechanism throughout my life, I guess it was only natural that I would study Fashion Design. I hope that no matter where my life leads after school, I continue to create and craft in whichever way suits my emotional expression best.
The Path of Persephone
My inspiration is the Greek Goddess of Spring, Persephone, who becomes Queen of the Underworld. Born to Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest, Persephone was raised to tend to the Earth alongside her mother, until Hades ripped her from the Overworld and brought her to the Underworld. After feeding upon the pomegranate seeds, she is permanently tied to the Underworld and must return every six months; she now must split her time between the two dimensions. She becomes trapped in an infinite cycle, during her time in the Underworld, when fall and winter occur, life shrivels away in her absence until she can return in the Spring and bring with her a new chance at life. My collection is a visual representation of the journey from childhood to adulthood, through the lens of Persephone and how I personally relate to her story. She’s a representation of divine femininity and the innate juxtaposition that comes alongside it. Through my clothes, I want to show how to retain a soft, nurturing touch while still having a strong determination for independence and following your own intuition.
Faculty Gary Miller, Yuko Fujishima, Neil Gilks, Iliana Ricketts
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