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Some background: every year Stanford FashionX puts on a student-produced, student-designed, student-modeled runway show. This year we braved the controversy to again host the show in Memorial Church; see some other designs I loved. Most of the work described took place between February 131 to February 27, 2026. i. the construction ii. broader reflections Many of the show’s designs either had specific concepts (see our opener), or directly reflected (lol) the overall Runway theme (“The Mirror Stage”2). My “creative process” was only loosely guided by concepts, and was instead motivated by the following: First I was drawn to variants of a thin strap slip gown with thin lines of ruffles all over the skirt, and spent a while playing with the shape of the dress and the placement of the ruffles. My original plan was to make the entire dress out of gold satin basted with the blue organza, so the satin would maintain the lustre the organza while also being opaque enough to be wearable3. Once I