The fashion design department is hosting their annual fashion show on Thursday, April 17. The show’s overall theme is Fifth Avenue Fashion, but it will feature a variety of materials, silhouettes, and aesthetics unique to each designer.
“So, you know, the theme doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the garments themselves, because each Fashion II student does their own fashion line,” fashion design teacher Mandy LaCour said. “So they create whatever kind of inspiration they want to have and their own theme. So it’s like a little mini fashion show for each of them, but it’s just kind of all together at the same time.”
The show is primarily focused on Fashion II students, but it will feature students from other levels as well. Most students have been working on their collections since November.
“And then I also have some, what we call special guests, which would be the Fashion III students, because they’ve already kind of done the show, so they just get like a special appearance,” LaCour said.
Fashion II is required to have a minimum of three pieces, but according to LaCour most students do four. Fashion I, if they want to participate, can put up to two pieces. This is senior Alexandra Zamora’s second time doing the fashion show.
“What inspired them was just a lot of different things, different fashion designers. Like, oh music too, like Dark Wave, New Wave, any sort of like…Goth music, punk music,” Zamora said.
Fashion I students are allowed to make their own playlist and Fashion II students pick their own music because they each have their own “mini line.” Sophomore Julian Guevara is putting in a hoodie inspired by skeletons, zebra print, and y2k.
‘I had like [recycled] the hoodie and it’s like a…for the sleeves I did a jean jacket,” Guevara said.
Zamora on the other hand, went for a much different look.
“And then my other shirt was mostly just very inspired by like other artists, or like just the type of like Gothic fashion in general. I tried to replicate like the wings of the bat on these things, like bell [sleeves], but with like that shape, things,” Zamora said. “But like those, there’s other brands like, AliceAuaa, they have a fashion line and I was really inspired by it because I thought it was really, really, really nice.”
