Phoebe Dragseth
Phoebe began experimenting with fashion at the age of four when her grandmother taught her how first to use a sewing machine. Since then, her love for fashion and design has grown exponentially. After graduating from Brown University with degrees in pure mathematics and political science, Phoebe is now completing an MSc in International Fashion and Luxury Management at the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, France.
Phoebe seeks to inspire women through daring and sometimes unconventional designs that promote femininity and strength. She takes great pride in the meaning behind all of her pieces, placing thematic development over purely following trends. She loves the juxtaposition between tailored, structured silhouettes and free-flowing, whimsical elements.
Phoebe Dragseth is an emerging fashion designer who studies at the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, France.
“I’ve really fallen in love with connecting my math major with my love of fashion and using design as a way to bring lots of different people into the math community ... Taking these equations and these shapes that usually only exist in math and bringing them into something that most people can wrap their minds around, like fashion, is a really great way to bridge those gaps.”
— Brown Daily Herald
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Director of Fashion@Brown’s Design Team
2023-2024 School Year
2022-2023 School Year
Awarded the Student Leadership Award for Brown University Student Groups (2023)
Intern in Couture Production/Atelier with DAWID TOMASZEWSKI in Berlin, Germany
Summer 2023
Fashion Design Intern at Muehleder Label in New York, NY
Summer 2022
Fashion Design Intern at Geoffrey Mac in Brooklyn, NY
Summer 2022
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Rhode Island Fashion Week - May 4th, 2024 - Collection Title “Blanc / Noir”
Brown Fashion Week - March 15th, 2024 - Collection Title “Blanc / Noir”
NYFW - February 8th, 2024 - Collection Title “Topologi”
Rhode Island Fashion Week – April 2nd, 2023 - Collection Title: “Topologi”,
Brown University Fashion Week - March 2023– Collection Title: “Topologi”
Rhode Island StyleWeek - Thursday, October 13th 2022 – Collection Title: “Fleeting Fragility”
Brown University Fashion Week – March 2022 – Collection Title: “Fleeting Fragility”
Brown University Fashion Week – April 2021 – Collection Title: “Spiritual Serenity”
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Linda J. Cook Award for Outstanding Senior Political Science Honors Thesis in Comparative Politics for Thesis “Weaving Histories: Unraveling the Diverging Textile Political Economies of India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam Through Colonization and Globalization”
Brown Arts Institute (BAI) Grant 2023 - Awarded for cross-disciplinary research on textiles and international state development
LINK AWARD 2023 - Awarded to intern under DAWID TOMASZEWSKI in Berlin, Germany, Summer 2023
Brown Arts Institute (BAI) Grant 2022- Awarded for cross-disciplinary research on Topology and Fashion Design
LINK AWARD 2022- Awarded to intern under Larissa Muehleder in New York, Summer 2022
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Political Science Honors Thesis
“Weaving Histories: Unraveling the Diverging Textile Political Economies of India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam Through Colonization and Globalization”
Defended and Accepted by Brown University Department of Political Science May 2024
“Topologi”
Topologi is the culmination of semesters of interdisciplinary research into the relationship between mathematics and fashion design. Cloaked in soft hues of white and blue, and wrapped in textiles commonly used in bedding, Phoebe seeks to invoke feelings of calm and peace, sentiments not often attributed to the study of mathematics. By pulling shapes that exist only in the fourth or higher dimension down into dimensions visible by the human eye, voluminous and whimsical silhouettes are created, reminding the viewer that a field as scientific and intimidating as math can indeed inspire imagination and create true beauty.
Funded by BAI Grant
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ESMOD “Fashion Design” Paris July, 2019:
Skills Learned: how to create a cohesive brand, techniques in figure drawing and illustration, the importance of taking the time to plan and develop a concept before beginning a project, and how to distinguish between different weaves and makes of fabrics.
SAIC “Fashion Construction” Summer Early Education Course 2017:
Skills Learned: pattern making and tailoring, new construction techniques, such as French seam, and slip stitches.
Culminated in a fashion show, displaying the garments created over the course of the summer.
Mount Mary “Fashion Boot Camp” 2016, 2015:
Course exploring the many aspects of fashion design. Included an introduction to fashion illustration, textiling, accessories, and of course fashion construction.
Culminated in a fashion show displaying pieces made over the course of the summer with textiles hand dyed and printed.
Awards: Mount Mary University Scholarship for Fashion Boot Camp, 2016
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Brown University ENGN 1530 Art and Fluid Mechanics: Spring 2023
Brown University VISA 0100: Summer 2021
Whitefish Bay High School “Painting”: 2018-2019
Whitefish Bay High School “Drawing”: 2017-2018