Fashion
week coming to CSULB next spring
Jackie
Miserany
The
fashion design students prepare for next
spring's fashion week.
Passion
for fashion
By
Jackie Miserany
Special to the On-line Forty-Niner
Hot
off the stiletto heels of October's Los
Angeles Fashion Week, the campus organization
Students in Fashion is teaming up with
senior and junior level fashion merchandising
students to create the first ever SIF
Fashion Week at Cal State Long Beach.
Similar
to the fashion week extravaganzas that
run in New York and Los Angeles every
spring and fall, the SIF Fashion Week
will be a six day long event held on campus
that includes the grand Thursday night
fashion show, featuring original designs
by CSULB fashion design students.
"We
are really excited for everyone to see
what we have planned this year. Some big
changes have taken place, including moving
the show from the Carpenter Center to
the Union Ballroom. The show will be viewed
in true runway style," said Lindsey
Bussey, one of the four senior fashion
show coordinators.
This
theme for the show is "Mode Fashion
Moda," explains Paris Davis, another
coordinator.
"We
are saying fashion in three languages:
French, Spanish, and English," Davis
said.
The
fashion week that took place in Los Angeles
portrayed a lively mix of fashions for
spring 2004. Color is hot for spring,
in bright poppy hues and bold graphics.
Also appearing in the spring trends are
colored tights worn with patent leather
stiletto heels.
Spring
accessories will be feminine and flirty,
including astrology signs on jewelry;
handbags in bright, pastel colors, chandelier
earrings, embellished sandals, and anything
silver.
The
most wanted brands for spring will include
local designer extrordinaire Paul Frank,
accessory designer Tarina Tarantino, and
denim looks from Citizens of Humanity
and Paper Denim Cloth.
Alissa
Gallo, a senior fashion design major,
said that the fashion students don't have
a specific theme when designing, so the
designs are all their own.
"I
like designing eyewear with a twist of
Alissa," Gallo said.
"My
style is abstract. I design garments as
art forms, not for the women wearing them,"
said Grace Yoon, a senior fashion design
student and an aspiring film costume designer.
A
panel of professionals from the fashion
industry will judge each student's designs
during the fashion show. Previous judges
have included guests from BCBG, Nike,
and The Lab. Awards and prizes will be
given out to the students whose garments
were the best of each class, including
Best of Show, Most Marketable Design,
and Most Avant Garde Design.
An
elaborate fashion show after party is
in the works as an end to fashion week,
along with an ice cream social, a pizza
party, gift bags, and guest speakers.
The
fashion show will take place in the spring
semester.
