First Fashion Show

  Last Friday my fashion class hosted our first fashion show, showing off the clothes we made from our new collections made out of the recycled clothing from the thrift store. We got in teams of 3 or 4 and had to make a mood board to see where we were going with the collections, after that we took a trip to the thrift with a budget of  $150 to get what ever we thought we would need, then we started sketching our clothes and seam ripped a lot of clothes so we could start making the garments.

My team went with a sunset summer vibe because it's about that time of year, we had 4 different looks, one for every designer, one bride look, one men's look and two other women look. Our collection we used a lot of lace, denim, mesh. I think our fashion show was a success, we sold out with over 200 people and I really like how all of our looks were different with a different theme and vibe like one collection was dark and scary another one very flowery and the clothing looking like it's owned by fairies.

After we showed all the group collections we showed off the avant-garde clothes that we made out of these collar shirts that were donated to the class, they were made in under a week so there wasn't one for everyone to model but there were about 9 finished ones and they all looked great, and looked like something just off a high fashion runway they didn't look like student made them. 

It's the Second Dirtiest Thing in the World And You’re Wearing It

https://articlesofstyle.com/62475/the-true-cost-of-disposable-clothing/

I just read an article about how designer Eileen Fisher gave a speech about how the fashion industry is the 2nd most damaging industry to our world, right behind the Oil industry. She was self-deprecating and even apologetic when speaking about the ecological impact of clothing, including garments tagged with her own name. Eileen Fisher was in the right by speaking up to people and telling them the facts so they know the true cost, some might say what she did is risky for her business, but I don't think so because she did the right thing and there are so people that will know the truth about something but not speak up and let the problem still happen and more people need to be aware of the fashion industry and the harm it does around this world.

Making A Story With Clothes

A clothing collection should tell a story, it should pretty much match up and all be the same theme even if your theme is inspired by multiple themes. In my teams collection our theme has a Asian sunset vibe we are sticking to, choosing colors like Orange, Yellow, Red, Light Blue & a Light Purple, we choose these colors because they go well together and we don't want our collection looking rainbow so we are staying away from adding ,more colors. For the men's look we are doing a denim jacket, with a dragon embroidery & adding red lining in the inside and denim shorts with lots of distressing on each  and for one of our female's looks we are doing denim with orange and for our third look we will make a very flowing dress since the other two are so structured, but we want to use the same colors so it will match the other looks.

Mood Board

For this new project in my class me and my team made a mood board, a mood board is to get the ideas that your teammates are getting and collaborating on them so the collection you make can feel the same and you stick to the same theme or style the whole time. Creating a mood board for my group helped us get the theme we where looking for, we first decided we want bright colors but not the rainbow, so we got the idea of sunset colors, then we decided we wanted a Asian vibe to it as well, and making this mood board really helped get what one of us was thinking to match it what all of us where thinking.

Trip To The Thrift

Yesterday we went to Savers as a class field trip, we first got a tour of the place and taken to the back of the store to see what it is that they do, and where they get there clothes, and what they do with the clothes that don't get sold in a 4-week period. We went to the store in teams of 5 with 4 people in each team to go thrifting to find clothing & items we can re-use to make our own fashion line with 3 to 4 different looks, each team had $150 to spend at the store to get what every we thought we needed for this project my team spent about $190, a little of it our own money to get everything we wanted for this project we picked a lot of bright colors that match the sun set and we are also going to have a Asian vibe to it as well.

Off-White | Fall Winter 2017/2018

I watched the Off-White Fall Winter show and I picked to watch this show because last month Designer Raf Simmons  said he is not a fan of the brand Off-white & I know Virgil is very inspired by the Belgian Fashion God I wanted to see if he would step up is game, & that he did, that was the best collection I've seen from Virgil Abloh, he started Off-White by himself and it has changed so much over the years turning the brand from streetwear to a high fashion brand influenced by streetwear, but not only did I love most the clothes & how they were put together but the whole theme of the stage with it being in the woods like the forest on a summer night with the lighting if the sun were just going down. 

A MUSLIM DESIGNER CAST ONLY IMMIGRANT MODELS

http://fashionista.com/2017/02/anniesa-hasibuan-fall-2017

Many in the fashion industry using the fall 2017 collections as a platform to make political statements, designer Anniesa Hasibuan, an Indonesian Muslim, made her own statement last year at her New York Fashion Week debut by sending all her models down the runway wearing hijabs. Hasibuan's headline-making theme from spring 2017 hits an especially powerful note this season in light of the currently blocked travel ban targeting Muslims from seven Muslim-majority countries. The Jakarta-based designer's global take on modest fashion, featuring ornate separates that can also be worn by "Western" women who don't adhere to a conservative dress code. Fashion designers making political or social statements through their clothing shouldn't always be done, in my opinion they are clothes just to wear and to look good and be cozy everything does not need to be politics.