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.
Watch Past Fashion Without Fabric Events
Past Events & Related News
"Welcome to Phenomonie!"
April 12, 2025 | 7:00 p.m.
‘Welcome to Phenomonie!’: Students embody extraordinary ideas in Fashion Without Fabric runway show
Continue Reading"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
Continue Reading"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
Continue Reading"Reimagining the Matrix: Fashion Responses to Systems and Structures"
April 9, 2022 | 7:00 p.m.
"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