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ESCUTO | CRIO

"I Listen | I Create"

The Method: 

Students learn to steward another person's creativity.

The participant creates an original design.
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Every design is photographed
for the fabricator's reference. 
Student craftsmanship brings the participant's design to life.
From design to realization.

The Collection​​

​A professional Collection is not a mirror.

It is an invitation.​

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Students naturally arrive with favorite colors, styles, and materials.

ESCUTO asks them to look beyond their own preferences

–to help build a Collection broad enough that each participant

can discover materials that speak to them.

In building the Collection, students learn

to select not only what they themselves would wear,

but what another person might treasure.

Again and again, students are delighted to discover

that the pieces they selected simply to broaden

the Collection become the very ones

guests cherish most.

Successful curation in this instance 

is not about expressing one artist's taste—

it is about making room for another person's imagination.

The highest craftsmanship

begins by honoring

another person's vision. 

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