FIDM DEBUT.....FIDM DEBUT 2024 Runway Show - The Final Show Collection Photos Recap!

 FIDM DEBUT 2024--Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduates Cameron Wilson, Joanne Yeung, Joselito "Nezumi" San Juan, Ashot "Ash" Markosyan, and Ronald Harris Jr. --FIDM DEBUT 2024 Show, Cooper Design Space Downtown Los Angeles

Photos courtesy of ABImages, Alex Berliner and Ben Shmikler

FIDM Fashion Design and Advanced Fashion Design Program Co-Chairs Nick Verreos and David Paul--Hosting the FIDM DEBUT 2024 Runway Show, Cooper Design Space Los Angeles

At the end of March, we had our final FIDM DEBUT Show at the Cooper Design Space in Downtown Los Angeles. The DEBUT SHOW is the final graduation fashion show for our Advanced Fashion Design Program graduates from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. As Co-Chairs of the FIDM Fashion Design and Advanced Fashion Design Programs, David and I are not only the Chairpersons of the Programs but in regards to the DEBUT Show, we are also the Creative Directors of the show. 

The FIDM DEBUT Show originated back in 1980, and it features the capsule collections of the program's graduates...it's the college's version of the "Fashion School Graduation Fashion Show".  Typically for many years, the DEBUT Show and Advanced Fashion Design Program only accepted 10-12 students for the 9-month program, where the students get to create their first collection, from ideation to finished garments, spending the time working on their inspiration, doing research, mood boards...to draping, making the patterns, creating muslin samples, having fittings on live models, and ultimately sewing the finished garments to be shown at the DEBUT Show. As a side note: I was one of those Advanced Fashion Design students when I attended FIDM and got to present my first collection at the FIDM DEBUT Show over 30 years ago (!).

View of the audience at this year's FIDM DEBUT Show, Cooper Design Space, Downtown Los Angeles

Model in look from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Ashot "Ash" Markosyan--FIDM DEBUT 2024, Cooper Design Space Los Angeles

For this year's program, we accepted 21 students, as a result of having such outstanding applicants! Also, after FIDM's campus and its fashion program merged with ASU, part of the sale involved a dissolution of our FIDM Fashion Design Programs so therefore, this became our final FIDM DEBUT Show...and we ended it with a STYLISH BANG!

FIDM Fashion Design Co-Chairs Nick Verreos and David Paul--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Here are photos from the FIDM DEBUT 2024 Show featuring the capsule collections from some of our 21 graduates:

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Ashot "Ash" Markosyan--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Cameron Wilson--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Joanne Yeung--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Jonah Pugmire--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Morgan Laboure--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Olivia Ronayne--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Raiah Chavah Young--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Andrea Urdaneta Ranaldi--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Ronald Harris Jr.--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Joselito "Nezumi" San Juan--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Kevin Sayari--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Designs from FIDM Advanced Fashion Design Program graduate Viola Wan--FIDM DEBUT 2024

Congratulations to ALL of our 21 graduates and their fabulous collections! Many THANK YOU'S to everyone who was involved in making our final DEBUT Show and our time as Co-Chairs come to a stylish end...

FIDM Fashion Design and Advanced Fashion Design Co-Chairs Nick Verreos and David Paul MC'ing the FIDM DEBUT 2024 Show from the Cooper Design Space in Downton Los Angeles

Post-Show--FIDM DEBUT 2024

The End! 

We were so EXCITED to see the nice press of the show on WWD and FashionUnited.UK:

TO WATCH THE FULL DEBUT 2024 SHOW, click HERE!