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词条 Diana Eng
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Project Runway

  3. Work

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Infobox person
| name = Diana Eng
| image = Diana Eng, Fairytale Fashion, Eyebeam Open Studios- Fall 2009, 20091023.10D.55465.P1.L1.SQ.BW, SML.jpg
| caption = Eng in 2009
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|5|24}}
| birth_place = Jacksonville, Florida
| residence = Living in New York City
| occupation = fashion designer
| education = Rhode Island School of Design
| television = Project Runway Season 2 (9th)
}}Diana Eng (born May 24, 1983 in Jacksonville, Florida) is a Chinese-American fashion designer, author and fashion technologist based in New York. She is best known as contestant on the second season of the reality television program Project Runway. Eng is a co-founder of an art/electronic group called NYC Resistor, and authored a book called "Fashion Geek".[1]

Early life

She attended Stanton College Preparatory School and later the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She graduated with a BFA from RISD in Apparel Design in 2005.[2][3] In 2005, prior to graduation she participated in Seamless: Computational Couture, a fashion show hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with fellow RISD grad Emily Albinski, together they designed a dress that with the push of a button would inflate into a ball gown shape.[4][3] Shortly after the Seamless: Computational Couture show, she appeared on Project Runway.

Project Runway

During the on the second season of the reality television program Project Runway, in the fifth episode, in which designers had to create a party dress for Nicky Hilton, contestant Daniel Vosovic referred to her as "Dirty Diana" because of the way she danced at the party.

Eng was eliminated in the sixth episode, during the Banana Republic challenge, along with fellow contestant Marla Duran.

In the finale, Chloe Dao picked Diana to help with the final challenge of designing an additional garment. Chloe was selected as the winner of Project Runway Season 2.

Eng's work has been featured on the cover of i-D magazine and in The Boston Globe. Eng held a major fashion show after the success of Project Runway and had model Diana Georgie as the opening catwalker.

Work

Diana, who helped popularize the term "Fashion Nerd," earned top honors at Yahoo!'s 2006 "Hack Day".[5]

{{quote|"The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures. The device was created by Diana Eng, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy, pictured to the right along with the device."| Michael Arrington

[6]}}

Eng authored a book in 2009, Fashion Geek: Clothes Accessories Tech is a DIY book that teaches how to make electronic fashions published by North Light Books.[7]

Diana Eng holds an Amateur Radio licence with the call-sign KC2UHB[8] and has made instructional ham-radio videos.[9][10] In March 2010, she joined the ARRL Public Relations committee.[11]

In February 2010, she held a one-woman fashion show at Eyebeam entitled "The Fairytale Fashion Collection" featuring garments with EL wire, LEDs and various sensors.[12]

In 2013, she was featured in CNN's The Next List where she demonstrated her use of integrated conductive thread that enables a dress to light up without any traditional wiring. In this episode, Diana Eng was filmed shopping for inspiration at CJS Sales in the garment Center of NYC[13]

Eng is a contributor to Make (magazine)[14] and Craft (magazine).[1]

See also

  • Chinese Americans in New York City

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2009/03/dirty-diana.html|title=Dirty Diana|last=The Tom & Lorenzo Archives: 2006 -2011|date=2009-03-01|access-date=2016-04-19}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://designverb.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/diana-eng-fortune-cookie-coin-purse/|title=Diana Eng: Fortune Cookie Coin Purse|last=|website=designverb|access-date=2016-04-19}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://seamless.sigtronica.org/2005/cast_crew.html|title=cast/crew|date=2005|website=seamless|access-date=2016-04-19}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/yourlife/fashion/articles/2005/06/23/designers_from_area_colleges_play_it_smart_with_functional_high_tech_fashion/|title=Designers from area colleges play it smart with functional, high-tech fashion|website=The Boston Globe|access-date=2016-04-19}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/01/all-women-team-takes-yahoo-hack-day-top-prize/|title=All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize|last=Arrington|first=Michael|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2016-04-19}}
6. ^{{cite web |date=2006-10-01|url = https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/01/all-women-team-takes-yahoo-hack-day-top-prize/|title = All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize|publisher = techcrunch| accessdate = 2007-11-14 | last=Michael Arrington |quote=}}
7. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Fashion-Geek-Clothes-Accessories-Tech/dp/1600610838|title=Fashion Geek: Clothes Accessories Tech|last=Eng|first=Diana|date=2009-03-17|publisher=North Light Books|isbn=9781600610837|location=Cincinnati, Ohio|language=English}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.qrz.com/db/KC2UHB|title=KC2UHB Callsign Page|website=QRZ Callsign Database|access-date=2016-04-19}}
9. ^{{Citation|last=Make:|title=How-To: Set up an HF portable radio while hiking|date=2009-10-06|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuGf21tGSc|accessdate=2016-04-19}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://makezine.com/2010/09/16/diana_eng_technology_fashion_s/|title=Diana Eng Technology Fashion Show at World Maker Faire|website=Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers|access-date=2016-04-19}}
11. ^{{cite web|title=Diana Eng KC2UHB joins ARRL Public Relations Committee|url=http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2010/diana_eng_joins_arrl.htm|publisher=Southgate Amateur Radio News}}
12. ^{{cite web| url = http://fairytalefashion.org/episode.php?id=12| title = Fairytale Fashion Collection| date = 2010-02-26| accessdate = 2010-03-21}}
13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/tech/high-tech-meets-high-fashion/index.html|title=Diana Eng melds high tech with high fashion|website=CNN|access-date=2016-04-19}}
14. ^{{Cite web|url=http://makezine.com/author/dianaeng/|title=dianaeng, Author at Make|website=Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers|language=en-US|access-date=2016-04-19}}
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External links

  • Diana Eng biography at the Project Runway official site
  • Diana Eng blog
  • Diana Eng and Emily Albinski's fashion label, Black Box Nation
  • Diana Eng website
  • Diana Eng book
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