It wasn’t that long ago when Project Runway judges went bananas for Erin Robertson’s offbeat signature styles featuring vibrant colors and fruit patterns. The season 15 winner and Cantabrigian keeps the genius coming with an MIT Media Lab collaboration—for which she tapped researcher Jifei Ou—and collections at her South End studio, including plexiglass-bedazzled wrap dresses and hand-painted slips at heftier price tags and more affordable items like T-shirts, bags and scarves.
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Clothing Designer
2016 Winner: Joelle Jean-Fontaine
The granddaughter of a seamstress and a leather worker, designer Joelle Jean-Fontaine draws upon her Haitian heritage as inspiration for her Kréyol clothing line...