Audience members, designers, and models filed into the main hall of the Field Museum Saturday night to attend MODA: Specimen 2026, this year’s sold-out edition of UChicago’s annual celebration of fashion.
Every year, MODA, the student fashion magazine, holds a runway show where amateur designers can showcase their creations. This year’s event was MODA’s largest on record, with attendees crowding together to catch glimpses of models as they strode underneath the tusks of taxidermied elephants and the neck of Máximo the titanosaur.
Student designers and models dazzled onlookers at MODA: Specimen 2026, held at the Field Museum Saturday evening.
