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Dress To Summer 2018

The Meaning of Fashion Fashion with a Story Cosplay

Letter From the editors We chose Fashion, because is a creative thing, and is a diversity of clothes, colors, outfits, cultures, moods, and personalities, from designers, cosplayers, actors In adition we also talked about the importance of clothes, and how it affects people. fashion helps people because fashion is what ever you make it. Fashion is everywhere no matter what even in movies, shows. How would this World be without fashion everyone would look the same. If nobody had a unique style no one would be Original. So be critive and get inspired.

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Meet the Editors Hello. This is Adrian Hernandez-Hernandez. I really love different types of clothing, especially the different types of headwear, like hats or hijabs. I sometimes try my best to kind of do my part in the group.

Hi.This is Anderzon Enriquez. I like basketball. I enjoy shopping and spending most of my time sleeping. I am a sneaker-head, which means I like shoes like designer shoes. I want to start my own clothing brand in the future.

Hi, my name is Maria Ortega Rodriguez I like to spend time outside in nature, I enjoy to help others when I can, and discover new things, and I love to sleep. ‘‘Always look on the bright side of things not the dull side”

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Table of Contents

_________________________ the meaning of fashion................................4 _________________________ be creative and choose a fun style...............8 _________________________ top 10 cosplay ................................................10 _________________________ fashion..............................................................12 _________________________ impress inspire...............................................16 _________________________ cosplay.............................................................18 _________________________ fashion in time ..............................................22 _________________________ 3

“Fashion is important to me because it is a language, it’s an important reflection of how people express how they feel’’ SP said.

“Fashion is not just putting clothes on and looking good, it’s choosing your own unique style, to be you, to be different. That’s what makes every person unique, and special. If all the people in the world dressed up the same and had the same hairstyle, it would be an uninteresting world.”

SP really enjoys working with her students. “[I enjoy] when I get to help people follow their dreams, and achieve what they want,” she said. “I’m very handy I can design I can sew create patterns Austin school of fashion Design students use all the material they need and I love to be creative.” to , sew and make clothes.

SP motivates her students to progress starting

By Maria Ortega Rodriguez ashion is important for people because from the simplest drawings to then actually creating they depend on it. Fashion makes them real clothes.

“Showing young students to use their creativity, feel good, so they want to be in the latest and push them to success is a great feeling,’’ SP said trends. Fashion helps people shine.

Everyone has a variety of talents and creativity “There is nothing really complicated is only the beginning when we are learning about it when we of all sorts of types of talents to put together and start to practice with mannequins,” said Patricia create a fantastic work of art in clothing, and it has to be functional otherwise is not going to sell. By Ortega, an Austin-area hair stylist.

“I think the most important thing to keep using the most flattering shapes, and experiment in mind is that when, there’s something new to with different designs it can turn a piece of work learn is going to take dedication, and it can be into a piece of art, and can captivate the eye of the frustrating at the beginning but then, the big audience, SP said.

Originality is a significant implement in reward comes after.” clothing design and experimenting with a variety of Improving fashion takes dedication. colors ,shapes, and designs.

“When we have full knowledge “When I go up stage, and show the people of it and can create something my work, and they recognize it, and like amazing with it,” Ortega said. “We it, and enjoy it that’s when I feel great ,and always try to do our best in our job, really say wow.,’ SP said. but if there is a accidental mistake Costume Designer cosplayer Avi Rolon is is up to the client if is willing to a very creative with her costumes. let us fix it. Right now the most “Cosplay, I find it important as it is a popular hairstyles are layered hair, healthy and creative outlet where people can taper, and hair dyes.” essentially bring their favorite characters to Ortega enjoys teaching and life, I definitely Would consider cosplay art always looks forward to creating form as it can not only involve sewing but new things.

Courtesy of Biser Todorov sculpture, and propwork.”

“What motivated me to keep Putting on a costume, and dressing as going on my stylist career was the people to see them leave with a big smile on their a character transforms people’s attitudes.

“When dressing up I personally love it’’ Rolon face when they leave was worth it,” Ortega said.

Clothing designer and teacher Ilonka SP said 4 The enthusiasm of the people makes Rolon said fashion is a vital part of culture.

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cheerful, and involved. works. How to budget, negotiate, network, market, “For The excited reaction I receive from others etc. Make the vision plain. Write down your plan. especially if they share the same interest in the Know exactly what you’re aiming for so you don’t get fandom,” Rolon said. “The interest for costuming distracted. Go to every fashion event, and business started early from Broadway, and films being a working social in town. Get to know everyone at the major sources of inspiration at the time something end of the day, it’s all about who you know. Getting about making elaborate, and detailed apparel as a involved In the fashion Industry has a positive side, whole always appealed to me.” and negative to not everyone is going to like Competitions or events area your stuff, but looking forward to progress big part in cosplayers.“One of keeps motivating,and innovating.there are the most amazing things I’ve and my beginning years as a designer,the experienced was being able to hardest thing for me was charging what my attend a costuming competition products were worth.” in a masters rank, and place with Sometimes things are not valued by what my best friend,’’ Rolon said they are supposed to.

There are fun moments when “I would spend hours on a design, but we get to act or show something charge minimum wages for it,” Melissa said. “I people really enjoy to do. had to understand the quality of my work and Fashion is needed is important Courtesy of Ahmad Ardity design. Some people didn’t understand why because it shows that there is my products needed to be priced differently more to it. It represents, people so I just had to find my target audience’’. personalities, characters from movies, stories Melissa recognized her work, and looked from behind it, and cultures. different perspectives.

“To be a successful fashion designer you need “My strengths in fashion are my thought to have determination,” clothing designer Karine leadership skills creative thinking and social Melissa said. “The fashion industry is very cutthroat. networking personality. Another goal I would like You have to be able to keep moving forward in the to accomplish in fashion is is writing in my twenty face of fear, rejection, and in the moments when years of experienced in the industry, I’d like to share it seems like nothing is happening.”“Generally my knowledge in order to help others succeed. The speaking people follow pop culture. If a celebrity colors that represent me are black and white and wears something, it becomes popular and cool,” hot pink Black and white because i’m a simple girl.

Hot pink because i’m also Melissa said. “Many people like to be the cool kid bold, and all for women on the block. Therefore, fashion cycles tends to power. “ flow in trends based on what’s popular.”

Everyone has their Everyone has different tastes styles that’s what own talents, everyone makes each person unique and differs from the is different. That’s why rest of the people. people define who they “The beauty of fashion is the freedom to be are. yourself,” Melissa said. “If people only knew how “I really enjoy working much clothes influence our minds, attitudes, and to #TeamFDE with power they would embrace the freedom to be as Fashion produce unique as possible even when it doesn’t seem cool.”

Designers Expo,” Melissa

Melissa said people interested in the fashion said. “Working with industry should remember some simple tips. rising icons is a beautiful

“To someone who wants to be a fashion thing.” designer, these are my top three pointers,” she Courtesy of Vlad Bitte explained. “Learn the business of fashion. How it 5

Be creative, and choose a fun style Elegancy: To go to a special ocation,

or a party, it doesn’t look good to wear sweat pants. Choose colors that fit the ocation Black, Marron,and dark colors are good for a evening party bright colors are good for summer,and spring.

Casual: Working out is important

doing exercise, because it mantains your body healthy that’s why you have to wear the right clothes, right shoes to prevent a injury, and to be comfortably.

Comfort: get your favorite clothes,

and put on your favorite pair of slippers when it’s time to recharge your body, and sleep is good to use comforable clothes to let your body rest, or casual clothes, and shoes are comfortable to wear to school or for casual places.

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Guess the A lot of coplayers choose costumes from the same set of characters when choosing who they want to “be� at comic conventions.

Cosplayers enjoy playing recognizable characters so they can be seen as real life superheroes. These logos represent some of the most popular cosplay characters.

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4. Leia, 5. Superman, 6.Full Metal Alchemist , 9. Joker, 10. Attack on Titan/scouting legion

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Answers: 1. Harley Quinn, 2. Deadpool, 3. Stormtrooper, 7. Fairytale, 8. Deathstroke/Slade

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Graphic by Anderzon Henriquez

The kidsActing group are on stage, practicing the last sceneplay, “Beauty and the Beast,” February 4, 2018. The actors playing the main characters are dancing on stage. Courtesy of kidsActing.

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rofessional costumes help actors fit into the scenery on stage, and get into character. Costume professionals are the ones who make this possible.

Ken Webster, has been working with Hyde Park Theatre since 1983, a year after the establishment of Hyde Park Theatre, and has been running the theater as a producer and an artistic director since 2001.

“I’m the producer [and the] artistic director,” said Webster. “I’ve been

This is the inside of the store, “Lucy In Disguise,” filled with clothes, June 21st, 2018. Courtesy of Lucy In Disguise.

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The kidsActing group are practicing the play, “Beauty and the Beast,” January 28, 2018. Belle is being sung by the villagers in this scene. Courtesy of kidsActing.

producing plays and directing plays here since 1983, but I’ve been running it for 17 years, since 2001.”

Chasity Taylor has worked in kidsActing for about two years, but before, she actually had her own clothing line, but decided to stop, because it didn’t feel great and felt bored.

“So my job here is I am costume shop supervisor and I’m also a … designer, so I design most of the costumes and I just run the shop, making sure everything goes smoothly,” Taylor said. “I came from the 12 Fashion World, so I went to college for fashion and I

even made my own [fashion] line….and I was bored.”

Jerry Durham is one of the managers and the person in charge of the buying in Lucy in Disguise and has been working there for almost nine years.

“I’m one of the managers in charge and I’m also in charge of all the buying, so anything that the store owners or gets in goes past me,” Durham said. “I have worked here for almost 9 years.”

kidsActing is a production company in Austin which has a very unique demographic. Usually, some theater

productions would include children and adults, but in kidsActing, it’s all about the kids. “kidsActing probably the only theater arts school…. that’s only geared to children,” said Valerie Cline, a director of marketing of kidsActing. We don’t have an adults section, we don’t have another professional theater going on, we are all about kids. So the target audience….is we have two, we have kids who love to sing, dance, act, and do stage combat and we have kids who don’t necessarily love that but understand that when you get on stage and you are

becoming another character, adult themes, adult language you are learning this kind of so we generally, we don’t get confidence and teamwork and too many customers who are poise and you just don’t neces- younger than high school.” sarily pull from anything else

Doing plays is one of the because people are watching hardest things to do, and one you and if you don’t listen and of those things are costumes. work well with other people, Making costumes for the then the scene won’t work, and entire play is pretty painful, so the skill level built.” especially if that costume has Lucy in Disguise attracts a to contain about 50 pieces for large amount of people bejust 1 character. cause it has costumes for chil- “The hardest thing dren and adults when they go about my job is in the kidsto places, like parties.

Acting production, we would

“Honestly, we have a lot have [kids age] 5 to 18, 19, 20, of different types of customers so it’s basically taking for this because when,” Durham said, one show and having to make “like during the school year, like we rent out to the college “On stage, you can go those kids, like for their parties, extra miles to tell really intricate but we also rent to customers and interesting stories,” Valerie who are, who are going to Cline said, the director of renaissance fairs, so we rent marketing of kidsActing. to a lot of families and stuff like that, bachelor parties [and] bachelorette parties, too, costumes for this huge range we rent too. Our customers are of children so it’s not really everybody.” making costumes in one size Since most of Hyde Park The- or one set a just really just havatre’s plays are more mature, ing to taking all of these kids they don’t attract audiences measurements and figure out younger than people in high how to make [the costumes],” school.

Taylor said. “For the Beast

“I’d say probably our alone that is almost 50 pieces... average age of our audience all of the gloves and headpiecis 40 but we do have a lot of es just for one character for young people as well as a lot all different ages and sizes, so of seniors and everything in that I would say would be the between,” Webster said. “Uh, most hardest thing, making mostly college students, but we costumes for so many different get the occasional high school people.” students, usually our plays,

Doing plays is hard, but a lot of times, our plays have throughout the way, it gets

a lot more better, like new friendships and great teamwork.

“It was a great place to work, we pay our actors, we do exciting plays, we have a great company of actors, designers, and directors, but we also cast outside of the company, as well,” Webster said.

It can also affect the demographic the place has, if it does plays or not, in a very amazing way, like adding a piece of creativity.

“I’m just really proud to work here and I do think that we’re like a part of Austin culture now, because we’ve been here in the same place for so long, so, when people say ‘Keep Austin Weird,’ I always feel like the store is a really good example of that,” Durham said.

In the end, with work like that, comes inspiration.

Something that can motivate a person to keep trying, even if times are hard in their job.

“I really think my inspiration for doing this job is just going out there doing what I initially thought I was supposed to do and realizing along the way did I’ve been long in the costume world,” Taylor said. “I like costuming so much because, unlike fashion, the clothing tells the story, the costumes in the show helped make the show what it is.”

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Impress, Inspire

Fashion comes in many ways styles, colors, shapes, moods, and personalities there is art in some fashion design there is more than just clothes. Is what represents is a everyday life. There is fashion everywhere , from your house when you pick your choice of clothes you are using fashion style, you are using your judgment on what to wear. To create your fashion style, since the evolution of fashion is constantly changing, but years later some designs reapeat.

Dress for an eligant event, or for a Halloween party.

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A button down shirt for a nice day out or a special occasion.

Dress for a night out to the club or a fancy restaurant date.

Shorts for summer day or a day in the park.

Special event looks nice.

Boots are good for going out they are very stylish and they look good.

Jeans for a normal day out or any day.

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Akira is cosplaying as Edward Elric from fullmetal. Courtesy of Akira Hosshizora

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Jeremy is cosplaying as the red zeo ranger. Courtesy of Jeremy Oliver

lana marie is cosplaying as iron man Courtesy of Lana Marie

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They have wings, swords, getting to show my artsy costumes. masks and inspire side with costumes.”

“The first convention others. Cosplayers are

Many see cosplaying I was nervous,” explained superheroes in the real the same way Lana Marie Australian cosplayer world. They don’t actually does.

Jeremy Oliver. “But I had have superpowers but “Ooooh the first time is my two mates cosplaying they can make themselves the best, it’s really not to with me so that helped a look super. sound cheesy but a pretty lot with the nerves! We

Cosplay is like magical experience,” literally stopped for like dressing up like said cosplayer Akira 200 photos. characters from pop Hoshizora.

Oliver explained culture, and how exciting cosplayers often it is to be in make their own one if these I love sharing with customs others conventions. the community just rather pay It shows that the role. Cosplay people can really and getting to show is basically enjoy the stuff a just dressing cosplayer puts all my artsy side with up and going the effort into. costumes, ” Lana into like comic They made and conventions or it is a really fun Marie said, an other public experience. austinite cosplayer. spaces.

“Seeing

“My first cosplayers and experience I other fans of was like a kid in a candy

They both series that you like is store,” explained the remember their first time really exciting,” said Austin-based cosplayer going to a convention Hoshizora. “There’s known as Lana Marie. “I fondly and had a very fun always stuff to do and enjoyed every moment time. It seems like the firstsee at events too, like and made many new time is like nervous but panels and gatherings and friends that loved what I then at the end it turns sometimes concerts.” loved, many still friends out to be a lot of fun. today. I love sharing with They have many pictures with people who like their 18 the community and

Jeremy is cosplaying as the Red Zeo Ranger from “Power Rangers Zeo”. In the next image he joined by his friends, who are also cosplayers. Courtesy of Jeremy Oliver

Akira cosplays as (left) Edward Elric from “Fullmetal Alchemist,” and Ken Kaneki from “Tokyo Ghoul.” Courtesy of Akira Hosshizora

Lana Marie is cosplaying as scorpio. Courtesy of Lana Marie

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1968 Clothing from 1968 isn’t too different from the clothing in 2018. Some clothing from the time is very similar to the clothing we have today, like polo shirts. Even though they may have some similarities with each other, they have their differences as well. For starters, the clothing in 1968 is basically more based on pattern. For women, they go for the flower pattern, stripes that go vertical or horizontal, or any pattern in particular that people today find strange. For men, it’s mostly plain or have stripes that go in both ways.

The focus isn’t only on the pattern, but also on the types of clothes they wear. If it is like a normal magazine, it includes women with dresses that give more attention to the waist, Courtesy of Museum at FIT

bottom, and top and includes men that have shirts with collars that are tucked in their shorts or show them wearing these nice suits that people usually wear when they are going somewhere formal and dress professionally. On a magazine released in the summer, women wear these onesiesin a beach scenery, while men would be on a golf scenery with Polo shirts having a steak-out.

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2018 Clothing from the year 2018 has improved a little bit than it did in 1968. For women, they don’t only wear dresses for magazine shoots, but also pants, shorts, and bikinis, so today, we have more variety and style than the year 1968. For men, their variety in style and clothing has increased, as well. Male models would usually wear in today’s magazines either a tank top, a suit, a shirt with a collar/a polo shirt, or not even wear any upper garments at all.

We are paying less attention than we are with the design of the clothing the models wear that would usually try and expose some part of the body, which is why some clothing try and expose the abs or in som cases, the chest.

Courtesy of Karen Arnold Courtesy of AmhadArdity

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