Paramus, N.J. student heading to Cornell to see fashion dream come to life after winning national competition

ITHACA, NY (04/12/2012)(readMedia)-- Alyssa Kim of Paramus, N.J., is headed to Cornell University to see her wild fashion creation hit the runway April 28 at the Cornell Fashion Collective's 28th Annual Fashion Show – one of the largest student-run fashion shows in the country – after winning first place in Cornell's national Fashion Design Award competition.

Kim's design was selected among 150 entries submitted to judges from Cornell's Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, which issued a nationwide call for students to design an outfit under the theme "Our Dichotomous World." Her entry features a dress constructed entirely of electrical cables, with portions of the garment revealing copper threads and insulation.

The sketch is being fabricated into a real dress, which will be modeled before Kim and thousands of other spectators during this year's Cornell Fashion Collective show. The competition's second and third-place finishers will also be in attendance.

This year's top Cornell Design Award finishers are:

First place - Alyssa Kim from Paramus, N.J., Paramus High School

See sketch: http://bit.ly/HBCG20

Second place - Alex Yarally, New York, N.Y., High School of Art and Design

See sketch: http://bit.ly/IzmVeE

Third place – Yea Weon Kim, Washington, Conn., The Gunnery School

See sketch: http://bit.ly/ICedb0

The next Cornell Design Award competition will open to high school students in the fall. Interested students will be able to apply here: http://fsad-cda.human.cornell.edu

NOTE TO EDITORS: Photographs of the first-place outfit being test fitted are available. Still images and b-roll of the student designers at the April 28 fashion show on Cornell's campus in Ithaca, N.Y., can be made available upon request.

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