Tag: Fashion show

The show, entitled “Identity, Designed: The Fashion Show,” aimed to shift the focus of what it means to be political, moving towards the notion that one’s sartorial choices are as political as their activity in the voting booth. Voting Week co-director Alice Hu, CC ’19, helped conceptualize the week’s events with the hope of engaging with students who may not feel drawn to political panels or protests. “This week we did something really different from past years. “Our goal was to get people who aren’t necessarily [saying], ‘Oh, I’m a political junkie, I follow the news every day.’ Those people are already in the know. The series of dresses incorporated a mixture of textures and lengths, all in neutral tones with pops of color often embroidered to accentuate the fabrics. Following her showing was a second New York based brand, The Phluid Project, whose store in SoHo has been proclaimed “the world’s first gender-free store.” Los Angeles-based label IRISHLATINA was the third to walk in the show, showcasing dresses, tops, and bomber jackets in vibrant colors and graphic prints. The brand’s designer, Rebecca Rivera, operates on a “slow fashion” model that aims to divert clothing from landfills by recycling their material. Though the show originally aimed to showcase a variety of students’ designs, several canceled due to conflicts, leaving Zehra Naqvi, CC ’21, as the sole student designer. Naqvi founded her brand GLO with her younger sister when they were teenagers growing up in Hong Kong. Her series of t-shirts displayed empowering slogans such as “Beauty Has No Skin Tone,” “Female Future,” and “WOC.” “I think some people think fashion is superficial.