eCREATIVE
more jobs at fair and competitive rates, and
the quality of the work increases, advertisers
start to pay attention.”
EMME is also collaborating for the third year
with the Fashion Design Program at Syracuse
University to launch Fashion Without Limits,
(#FWL #SUFWL), an initiative created
for junior year students to teach young
designers how to create fashion for a variety
of women to include size 16, 18, 20 and 22
dress forms along with the standard size 4, 6,
and 8 forms found in fashion design schools
around the world.
The end goal: to increase the availability of
only work with size 8 and 10 dress
forms,” Del Hunton, head of sales at
Wolf Form Company noted on EMME’s
website. “We were happy to donate the
forms to help the fashion design program
become a founding father of size 12+
design.”
“We want to have #FWL ambassadors
in design schools around the country
who embrace inclusive fashion, teach
proper garment grading, and open the
doors to new and innovative ways
to represent curvy bodies in fashion not
currently available in the marketplace,”
said EMME, a 1985 Syracuse University
Nicole Wezowicz, (left) a junior fashion design
major at Syracuse designed the winning gown
for the inaugural Fashion Without Limits 12+
EMME Award™. Emme selected Wezowicz’s
gown during the VPA/Newhouse Fashion and
Beauty Communications Milestone fashion
show in April 2015. Wezowicz will receive
$500 and Emme will wear her winning design
at a red carpet event.
plus-size designers throughout all levels of
the fashion industry, starting at the very
beginning of their fashion careers.
Wolf Form Company donated forms for the
program representing sizes 16, 18, 20, and
22. “EMME’s passion made us aware that
many college fashion design students can’t
even try on their own designs because they
graduate. “There are many different
fits in the curvy industry and it will take
time for manufacturers and buyers to
understand and embrace them.”
Syracuse University plans to integrate
Fashion Without Limits into all four
years of the department’s program.
“Thanks to EMME’s passion and