Pratt Honors Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia

Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia know what it’s like to hustle. “We knocked on everyone’s door in fashion, even people we had never met before. We found them on LinkedIn and Google and asked for advice and support,” said Kim on Thursday evening, accepting Pratt’s 2017 Fashion Visionary Award at her alma mater’s 118th annual graduate fashion show and awards. She and Garcia are still going door to door, but now people are soliciting them: A half hour before the Pratt show began, the co-creative directors of Monse and Oscar de la Renta were at The New School’s Parsons School of Design for a panel discussion with their fellow 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards Swarovski nominees and Kenneth Cole. Garcia made the Pratt show just under the buzzer. This is what living the dream looks like, kids. And it’s why Pratt president Thomas Schutte chose Lim, who graduated with a BFA from Pratt in 2004, and Garcia, who attended Notre Dame, as the recipient of this year’s award. “They truly represent all that Pratt students can accomplish,” Schutte said. Of the 45 students in the graduating class, 14 were selected to present looks from their collections, many of which reflected a major deconstructed, street influence.

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