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While you were downing conversation hearts and champagne in the San Francisco heatwave last Saturday, 15 M.F.A. designers from Academy of Art University's School of Fashion spent Valentine's Day sending their thesis collections down the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Xue Yang, Oom Terdpravat, Stella Xingyu Hu, Xiaowei Liu, Ozanhan Kayaoglu, Paulina Susana Romero Valdez, Tam Nguyen, Erin A.F. Milosevich, Emmanuelle Ciara Jones, Christian Willman, Han Tang, Ghazaleh Khalifeh, Famaz Golnam, Andrea Nyberg, and Kevin C. Smith wowed the crowds with ten fall collections, and we have photos of all the looks. Is one of these bright young things the next big thing in the design world? Decide for yourself.