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Thursday, April 4, 2002
A&E
1Pa1NG; FASIIJON PREVIEW
2002
Find out what the hot spring trends are from Cabrini's own aspiring fashion designers ing with fashion than magazines on health lightweight cotton twills and denim. She and survival issues. Americans gorge says she is pleased with the looks and didthemselves on topics like what to wear after n't try to predict the line that is called foreLabor Day and how to update a drab casting. wardrobe. Fashion is so important that a Ceno said, "I am not a slave to forecastsneak peak into spring fashions is planned a ing. It is too limiting. I know what is year ahead. trendy, but I don't get consumed with foreThis year's spring goodies were revealed casting. My Customers are not afraid to try in February. Onlookers in Milan and New something new." York have already seen the latest creations Bronze Beauty Designs, Ceno's fashion from fashion icons like Gucci, Prada and label, caters to a diverse clientele. The Calvin Klein. The runways came alive with label, which will be available in her new color as models presented the latest in fash- store opening soon in Jamaica Queens, ion. The winning look: peasant outfits fea- New York, features three separate cateturing skirts with embroidery and elaborate gories, each with a different price range. embellishments. These are not the peasant The White, Pink and Black labels range skirts from the '80s. Hopefully no one will from reasonable prices like $50 to $1000. embarrass themselves by sneaking up to the Ceno said, "My White label, however, is attic and digging out their old, worn tributes higher end fashion for the older woman. It to Stevie NickSj 'Thoi((n·ap just won'~ (lo -has,ea0let1211d stieae. My,~pensj,ve line is it. It is true that today\ ~t skiirts- a the Black~l. These clothes ar~ tailored throw back to the days when women could for the customer.'' spend little money 011fashion made due -,i!i! an4·-'-,-' >"-- .' A ...fashion enthusiast since age five, with piecing fabric scraps together. • The Ceno is sure her clothing line will please irony idea behind the new peasant skirts is her following. that pieces of the new fabrics cost more Ceno sai~, "I know fashion." thall be average Jane ma.Icesin a week. Her knowledge-tmnes from the sourer,• 'I'bese ~s are. bip, now, happening and tht streets. Ceno says the runway fashioas ex.pensive. t)µt.,according to one fastiion that make it to the streets are the ''Qrganic designer, tnfs year's spring fasbkms prove fotm of fashihn?'' She ,enjoys how every 1 "ffialinariy designerr'h'?ive Cllt off their ~ area puts its own spm6n the same style. chains and refuse to be slaves to trends. Growing up with a seamstress mother, According Ro Speight, fashion enthusi- Ceno got her hands on hundreds of fabric, ast and writer, peasant skirts are not ,the sgrap6 and 't'atched he_rmom for tips on only retro/modem look excilipg buyers. how •t9 make designer clothes for her Another fashion element that ~ to the Barbies. past, but points to the futute is ¢a Safaai Qe,onna Lewis, fashion designer, grew loQk. The Jane Goodalf2at-work lodk is up with the same passion. She can't actually fashionable. remember when fashion was not a part of Speight said, "There are so many differ- her life. Just barely out of Geranimals, ent elements to the Safari look. The colors Lewis was making tailored outfits for herare exciting, lots of greens, browns and dark self and her friends Lewis said, "I started designing fashion greens almost the look of a rainforest." Bridget Ceno, fashion designer, says that when I was about 15-years-old. I always the 2002 spring collection has a few sur- had an interest in drawing, but it was at this prises. There are elements in this year's line age that I started to observe the art of makthat no fashion correspondents could have ing clothes. I also found it hard to find predicted. Fashion designers have raised a clothes that fit me, and a lot of my girlfew eyebrows with their out-of-the-box friends had the same problem, so I figured why not design and make clothes for lines. The new lines offer lots of color and myself." Unlike many designers today, Lewis, a whites. The runways will show lots of chifCabrini College art student, is not worried fon, lightweight fabrics and pastel colors . like pink, greens, blue and yellow with about what the runway chatter in Milan and crazy strips. Designers were inspired by • Paris reveals. Her main concern is how she ,.o.
drawings by Gerrona Lewis
The drawings pictured were designed and created by Gerrona Lewis, a Cabrini art student, which displays her fashion visions, along with her artistic talents.
by Rachel Slaughter guest writer
Doctors preach that eight glasses of water are essential to healthy living. Fashion gurus argue they can live without water as long as Coach keeps pumping out handbags and shoes. Can man live on fashion alone? Magazine moguls must think so. There are more magazines in-America deal-
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can translate her artistic passion into something that she enjoys to wear. Lewis said, "My passion for art is just a need. It brings forth feelings that I knew I had, but I never wanted to confront or talk about. . .I mean I can draw a picture and when I look back at it I know what was going on in my life at the time. My art is like a photo album or timeline."