Fashion Without Fabric

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Unexpected Couture Returns to the Runway

April 11, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.

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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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"Welcome to Phenomonie!" (2025)

"Welcome to Phenomonie!"
April 12, 2025 | 7:00 p.m.

‘Welcome to Phenomonie!’: Students embody extraordinary ideas in Fashion Without Fabric runway show

Sold-out fashion show brings natural and human-made phenomena to life
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"Philias & Phobias" (2024)

"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)  

Runway to imagination: UW-Stout’s sold-out Fashion Without Fabric unfolds fears with theme of Philias and Phobias

‘Love of Books’ named scholarship winner; ‘The Prime Divine’ proves number 13 can be lucky
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PHOTO ESSAY: Behind the Curtain

We all fear and we all love...something. Take a peek behind the scenes of a legendary art school project: Fashion Without Fabric.
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"Innovations & Inventions" (2023)

"Innovations & Inventions"
April 15, 2023 | 7:00 p.m.

On April 15, 2023, Fashion Without Fabric returned to the runway with more than 120 unconventional outfits that showcased "Innovations & Inventions" throughout history.

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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"Reimagining the Matrix" (2022)

"Reimagining the Matrix: Fashion Responses to Systems and Structures"
April 9, 2022 | 7:00 p.m.

Fashion Without Fabric, ‘Big Fish’ musical anchor Family Weekend

Two major student productions, a fashion show and a musical, will highlight UW-Stout’s Family Weekend Friday, April 6, to Sunday, April 8.
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"Bodies of Work" (2018)

"Bodies of Work"
April 7, 2018 | 7:00 p.m.

2018 Runway Judges
  • Sherri Marnel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  • Sherry Pecha, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  • David Richter-O'Connell, University of Wisconsin-Stout
  • Darren Tesar, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Fashion Without Fabric, ‘Big Fish’ musical anchor Family Weekend

Two major student productions, a fashion show and a musical, will highlight UW-Stout’s Family Weekend Friday, April 6, to Sunday, April 8.
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Bodies of Work

Backstage and behind the scenes of Fashion Without Fabric
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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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