Profile: Jessy Zimmer – Only Natural Design Competitions

Jessy Zimmer

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)

Hello, my name is Jessy Zimmer and I am a fashion designer from Edgewood, KY. When debating what career path to follow, I knew it had to be a creative one. I made my first garment at 9 years old, and fell in love with sewing through the homemaker-led classes I took through 4-H. This passion led me to pursue fashion design as a career. During my time at SCAD I have developed my own personal design identity, an identity that I feel was captured in my senior capstone collection: Fox Hunt Pageant.

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Fox Hunt Pageant

Category: Apparel

Competitions: Fashion Competition 2026

This is Fox Hunt Pageant, an A/W collection that explores the quiet rage of aristocratic wives left at home while their husbands embark on on a fox hunt. This past summer I reread Gilman’s the Yellow Wallpaper and introduced myself to Woolf’s a Room of One’s Own. After reading these works I decided I would make a collection for a woman that can’t be confined within the domestic sphere. Drawing inspiration from equestrian menswear, the garments reclaim heritage tweeds reimagined through a feminine lens, and softened with crystals, pearls, and patterned silks. The result is a collision of domestic confinement and opulent spectacle—an imagined pageant that questions whether these women will remain caged or claim something new.