fashion graduates from Asia have their time in New York

  There is nothing glamorous about ironing your own collection before a show at New York Fashion Week, but if that's what it takes Jessie Jie Liu from entering the store, they will.

Liu was one of the nine jurors selected by the graduates of control - all women - the San Francisco Academy of Art University Fashion School whose creations on Friday the track reserved type of exposure is usually for top designers.

Five designers, newly created, came from Asia, stressing instead the region as a power of fashion, and well attended parade on Friday was a valuable opportunity for international buyers, explorers discovered talents and journalists.

"This is a way for them to be seen anywhere in the world," said university spokeswoman Edith Mead Barker.

Backstage at Lincoln Center, the zero point for the spring-summer 2013 collection, 32 years, reflects Liu on his long and winding road from his hometown of Penglai City, in the eastern province of Shandong in China, New York.

"I was like most women when I was young. Loved dressing Barbie dolls," she told AFP during a break from the steam to the folds of the silk outfits she created with Belgrade-born textile design Tanja Milutinovic comrades.

"When I grew up, I was always obsessed with fashion ... and do after work as an accountant for three years (in Toronto, Canada, where she obtained a first degree in accounting), I realized that I would like every day . "

Eight modern optics Liu sent Friday, with clean lines and angular forms, which were of the London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor and Beijing "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium excited, she said.

Liu ambition? His own label, as now fixed by experimenting young Asian designers like Alexander Wang and Jason Wu, a firm hand on all aspects from design to distribution established.