Design Students Compete to Dress Robin Roberts for Red Carpet at Academy Awards

March 1, 2010— -- Three designers have been shortlisted to create the dress that Robin Roberts will wear on the red carpet at the 82 annual Academy Awards later this month.

The three finalists are Fabiola Arias, Kwame Brako and Shawn Reddy.

The three were among five graduates from Parsons The New School for Design who were chosen to compete in the red carpet challenge to dress the "Good Morning America" anchor for the biggest night in Hollywood.

The five designers showed their sketches on "Good Morning America" on Friday. Roberts whittled her choices down to three designs on this morning's show.

The remaining designers will each make their dress. All three will be unveiled Wednesday on "GMA."

Roberts will select her favorite dress and wear it to the March 7 awards ceremony.

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Arias, 22, said she researched what Roberts was most comfortable wearing and created a dress that would show off her height and statuesque figure.

Although the sketch is red, the final dress will be a different color. The Cuban-born designer said she will cut lace fabric into squares and sew it together to create a design that will gradually fade from green to a navy blue at the bottom.

Kwame Brako sketched four or five designs before finally settling on the one-shoulder black dress.

Brako, who was born in Ghana, said he believed his design would flatter Roberts' "great shoulders and arms," and facilitate freedom of movement when she interviewed award winners.

"Judging from her style, I think she wanted something comfortable but also extremely elegant," the 22-year-old designer added.

Reddy said he wanted to push Roberts out of her style "comfort zone."

The Boston designer settled on his deep purple creation after researching Roberts' style and what she wore to the Oscars last year. The dress will be made from silk crepe.

"I tried to get a sense of her and incorporate that into what I thought would be appropriate for the event. ... It was very personal ... it was specifically [for] her," Reddy said.

The two others designers were Samantha Sleeper and Freyja Van Noort.

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