Carolina Ramirez is a student at the Illinois Institute of Art–Schaumburg. She is a U.S.A. ReMix International Fur Design Competition Winner 2017/18; a U.S.A. ReMix In-ternational Fur Design Competition Winner 2016/17; and an Illinois Institute of Art–Schaumburg: “Passion for Fashion” Scholarship Winner.

The Design: For the 2016/17 ReMix Competition, Ramirez worked with the York Furrier Design Team to realize her sketch into a completed fur garment, a fur-trimmed dress, and a fur-trimmed handbag. Her fur gar-ment, a fitted walking coat with a flouncy skirt hemline, was created using feathered Finnish raccoon and intri-cate woven Italian lamb leather.

This summer: Carolina again partnered with the York Furrier Design Team to create a new design: an elegant white mink walking coat with silver fox adornment.

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danielle grouse is a 2017 Graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She earned a Raymond Hudd Millinery Award (SAIC 2016); a U.S.A. ReMix International Fur Design Competition Winner 2016/17, and was a SAGA Design Centre in Copenhagen (Denmark) Week Long Seminar Scholarship Winner in 2016.

the design: For the 2016/17 ReMix Competition, Grouse created a three-piece look using a Natural Red fox cape lined with a burgundy twill paired with a matching detachable vest, and shorts cre-ated from black wool and trimmed with natural brown beaver applique.

Modeled By darBy Hills

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Anna loosli is a student at The School of the Art In-stitute of Chicago. She is a graduate from the Fashion Design Program at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn. Her accolades include: Candidate for the Fur Summer School in Kastoria, Greece 2017 Scholarship; Winner of the 16th Annual Richard Driehaus Awards for Fash-ion Excellence 2017; Paris American Academy-Fashion Workshop Scholarship Winner, July 2014; Semi-finalist Chicago Next Fashion Design Challenge COD 2nd Year Student Designer of the Year Award 2013; and the grand prize winner for the “uROCKit” competition sponsored by Simplicity & Jo-Ann Fabric & Craft Stores (2013).

the design: Midnight sculptural dress created from Nor-wegian black fox, textured and patterned leather, and braided neoprene accessorized with embellished black leather boots and detailed leather bracelet and collar.

the design: Norwegian black fox trimmed neoprene and leather structured cape with Swarovski crystal detail over a matching neo-prene dress accessorized with a black fox-trimmed envelope clutch.

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designer Anna loosli

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Quintessential Barrington spoke with the three student designers who expressed their gratitude for the opportunities, and excellent training and support generously provided by Kathy Rezny and her De-sign Team.

Each year, the International Fur Federation and Vogue Talent part-ner on a global student fur design competition—the IFF ReMix Inter-national Student Fur Design Competition. In the United States, the Fur Information Council of America (FICA) solicits applications and fur de-sign sketches from students attending or recently graduated from design schools throughout the country. With 100s of applications submitted, the FICA ReMix Committee selects three students to represent the U.S.A. in the global competition.

These three talented students will then partner with a furrier to have their sketch realized into a fur garment. Pelts, linings, trimmings, shop time, and instruction are all gifted to the students (they also keep the fin-ished garment). Once their garment is completed, photographs are taken and a new application is submitted for the global competition held in Milan, Italy, in early spring. From across the globe, 10–12 students will receive a paid trip to Milan where their garment will be included in a run-way fashion show attended by fashion industry designers, manufacturers, buyers, and media (including “Vogue” magazine judges).

Kathy Rezny and her staff have played a key role in the contest. “In my role as chairperson of the Fur Information Council of America’s ReMix Committee, I have had the pleasure of working with some very creative and ambitious student fur designers from across the United States. Many of these students attend design schools in the Chicagoland area allowing them access to the York Furrier workshop and Design Team. Working with the students is truly inspiring and I am happy to share their suc-cesses,” Rezny said. “In the past several decades, the U.S. has sent many students onto the global competition, and I’m thrilled that quite a few that York Furrier has worked with were global winners or runners-up in the competition.”

Kathy Rezny of York Fur and Jodie Barbera. Special thanks to Ten Friends Blow Dry &

Style at Deer Park Town Center for hair styling and make-up.

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