Get schooled in style

Seniors at MassArt recently collaborated with the Italian Trade Commission and six northern Italian mills to design garments using the region's textiles and yarns — the project is called "DNA: Design Needs All." See 16 of the student creations on display at the Chestnut Hill Mall through July 17.

This angular coat from Ashley Collett, Virginia Grassilli, and Michelle Idrovo is fierce:

All this number needs is some good jeans (Jeans = genes. DNA. Get it? Har-har.)

Also on display: "The Good, the Bad, the Runway," a project from Boston's School of Fashion Design that explores design as a social agent, is at Copley Place through June 30.