Fashion Without Fabric

Be a part of the magic, excitement and creativity when innovative fashion--without a stitch of fabric--hits the runway.
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Unexpected Couture Returns to the Runway

April 12, 2025 | 7:00 p.m.

Show details and ticket information are right around the corner. Stay tuned! 

Fashion Without Fabric Scholarship

In collaboration with industry partners and alumni, the School of Art & Design will award two $1,000 scholarships to the winners of the highly competitive and exciting Fashion Without Fabric Show. Your gifts will ensure that our students continue to be exposed to academic excellence combined with the challenge of real world simulations and be acknowledged for their achievements.

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Revisit 2024 Fashion Without Fabric

"Philias & Phobias"
April 6, 2024 | 7:00 p.m.

On April 6, 2024, more than 250 students presented unconventional fashion designs themed around "Philias and Phobias" to a sold out crowd. By the night of the big show, our student teams had selected a word that functions as a prefix to both theme concepts (e.g. technophilia/technophobia or bibliophilia/bibliophobia) and spent weeks giving life to form culminating in an electric walk down the runway.

2024 Runway Judges
  • Katherine Frank, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  • Steve Marsh, Senior Writer, Mpls. St. Paul Magazine 
  • Molly Uravitch, Assistant Professor of Art, Augustana University (Sioux Falls, SD)   

Past Events & Related News

Invitation to innovation: Supporters, community celebrate students’ creative, scholarly and athletic activities

Destination Weekend, April 14-15, features Fashion Without Fabric, polytechnic exhibition and more
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Scholarships awarded for top design in Fashion Without Fabric

An entry built for the runway was named the grand prize winner in the annual Fashion Without Fabric student show at UW-Stout.
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Bodies of Work

Backstage and behind the scenes of Fashion Without Fabric
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A look inside Fashion Without Fabric 2013 / UW-Stout