The 13th-annual Art2Wear fashion show will take place Friday on the Stafford Commons, the lawn in front of Talley Student Union. 

The show will begin at dark, approximately 8 p.m. 

Art2Wear is a student-organized runway show that features the fashion designs, costumes and wearable sculpture designs created by students in the College of Design and the College of Textiles. 

This year’s theme, Accelerated Evolution: Speed, invited designers to explore the conceptions and connotations surrounding speed. The show will also include five subthemes: Questioning Speed, Speed of Humanity, Speed of Time, Speed of Success and Speed of Luxury, according to the press release. 

The goal of the show is to inspire and challenge the audience and designers to think about clothing in a different way, the press release stated. 

Art2Wear generally attracts about 4,000 attendees. The show is currently trying to evolve from a highly anticipated N.C. State event into a focal point for fashion on the east coast, according to its press release. 

The Art2Wear website defines fashion as “A product or sculptural piece that interacts with the body and serves as either a cultural artifact, an artistic expression, a reflector of society, outward illustration of a person’s identity, starter of revolutions, economic building block, basic human need, or body covering.”