Roundabout Fall 2019

NC State Student Media

Fall 2019

To build a

PLATFORM

KEEP

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with Wellness and Recreation

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Contents Editor’s Letter

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Raleigh Denim

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To Build a Platform

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Thrift and Vintage

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Fall Flavors

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Art + Design Fibers

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Fall Playlist

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Content Editor: Emily Hench Design Editor: Emma Schuler Photo Editor: Clifford Maske Advertising Manager: Mersina Boynton 323 Witherspoon Student Center, NCSU Campus Box 7318, Raleigh, NC 27695 Student Media Office Contact: (919) 515-2411 Roundabout Email Contact: rounabout-editor@ncsu.edu Cover Caption: Hanadi Ibrahim, a third-year studying textile technology and Platform model posing on Sunday, September 22, 2019 in downtown Raleigh, NC. Platform Magazine uses volunteer models to publish one issue per semester.

Contents Caption: Caroline Diaz, a first-year studying fashion and textile design and Tim Mensa, a fourth-year studying communiction, on Sunday, September 22, 2019 in downtown Raleigh, NC. Both students model for Platform, a magazine run by the Wilson College of Textiles.

Letter from the Editors Dear Wolfpack Readers, First off, thank you for picking up our latest issue of Roundabout. Whether you’re new to campus this semester or someone who has returned, we’re glad that you took the time to check out what we have in store for you.

That being said, you might notice that things look a bit different in this issue.

We’ve worked hard over the past few months to develop a brand-new look for Roundabout and we’re glad to finally be able to show it off in this issue. Thinking and doing takes time, after all. Our focus on the NC State and Raleigh communities haven’t changed. Rather, we’ve worked to add new types of content for you all to enjoy. Through this, we hope to give the magazine a more polished look.

For this issue in particular, we’re complementing our new look with articles themed around fashion, from NC State alumni business owners to local thrift stores. We’ve also added in a few fall-themed selections to the issue, including a playlist and a set of recipes for the chilly days that begin to pop up later in the semester.

Additionally, for the cover story of this issue would be about Platform, a student-run fashion magazine with a brand-new name. We enjoyed learning more about them through our collaboration, and hope that you may find an interest in it as well.

We hope you enjoy what we have in store in this issue, and hope that you’ll stick around to read the next issue hitting campus newsstands in January 2020.

Sincerely, The

Emily Hench Content Editor

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Clifford Maske Photo Editor

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Photo by Clifford Maske A selection of the pants available from Raleigh Denim Workshop on Friday, September 13, 2019 in their store located in downtown Raleigh. The workshop is a local business known for carrying high-quality garments made by hand.

Stitching Their Way to Success:

Photo by Clifford Maske Raleigh Denim Workshop founder Victor Lytvinenko at Raleigh Denim Workshop, located in downtown Raleigh, NC. Victor founded Raleigh Denim Workshop with his wife Sarah Yarborough and they still run the business together to this day.

Photo by Clifford Maske Some of the many products sold at Raleigh Denim Workshop on display on Friday, September 13, 2019 in downtown Raleigh. Along with own products Raleigh Denim Workshop carries health and wellnes products, as well as clothing and accessories from a select few outside brands.

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The Raleigh Denim Workshop is a self-described “curatory” on W. Martin Street in the Warehouse District, situated directly across from the 311 Gallery and Visual Art Exchange, and it is no less an artistic endeavor than either of those. Approximately 7,000 paper planes hang from the ceiling in place of tile, and a piano sits in the center of the storefront. Connected to the sales floor is the workshop, where customers can hear the sounds of antique sewing machines chugging away and watch the Raleigh Denim employees perform their meticulous production, drawing patterns, cutting, sewing, hemming and finally bagging and tagging dozens of pairs of jeans each day entirely by hand.

Victor Lytvinenko, NC State class of 2005, and his wife, Sarah Yarborough, who attended the College of Design at NC State, co-founded the workshop in 2007. They started with a total staff of two, stitching together each pair of jeans themselves in their apartment on Oberlin Road. Their goal: to make the best pair of jeans in the world.

According to Vita Plume, a fiber artist who served as Yarborough’s professor in the Department of Art + Design during her time at NC State, Yarborough had a clear vision of what the business would look like even several years before its launch. Lytvinenko said he helped to craft pieces for Yarborough’s runway in the NC State Art2Wear show, and the couple started making jeans less than a year later. Plume said that while it was Yarborough who initiated the project in her class, she and Lytvinenko together were “dream students” who served as an example for many of her classes in later years.

“They are both very talented and were dedicated students, but it is their mutual dream and their team work (sic) that puts them so very far ahead of the pack,” Plume said over email.

Lytvinenko said Plume was an incredible inspiration and guide in the early days of the Raleigh Denim Workshop.

“We made like 500 pairs of jeans in that apartment; we made a pair a day every single day,” Lytvinenko said. “[Plume] is one of the most amazing peo-

Photo by Clifford Maske The workspace of Raleigh Denim Workshop, phot graphed on Friday, September 13, 2019 in their store and workshop in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

Raleigh Denim Workshop was founded Sarah Yarborough and Victor Lytvinenko during their time at NC State.

Raleigh Denim Workshop By Ben Wolf ple I’ve ever met in my life. Sarah was taking her class, and part of Sarah’s project was incubating this business idea … she was with us at the very beginning.”

Lytvinenko and Yarborough eventually moved the production out of their apartment and into a warehouse, and after only a year, they contracted their first major retail gig: an order from Barneys New York in 2008, which would ship out to sell the following year.

“Sarah and I cut and sewed every single pair in the warehouse, with no heat and no windows,” Lytvinenko said. “Spring 2009 was the worst retail quarter on record; that was the credit crunch. The economy crashed, but our jeans sold out.”

From there, it was off to the races. Yarborough and Lytvinenko have since opened and closed a store in New York and been inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Lytvinenko said although the couple has sold their items in other locations, North Carolina holds special meaning for them.

“Cooking got me into wine, so I really got interested in wine, about the craft, about the production, about the quality, about the place,” Lytvinenko said. “Some of the philosophy behind wine making felt like it lended itself to the history of denim production in North Carolina. So, denim is of this place, invented here basically. It felt like we had these building blocks of the history of denim here; we had this terroir, in a way. It felt like the market was kind of boring at that time, and I wanted something that was… smaller production, higher quality, more interesting. And I love the way that denim develops over time, as wine does. Wine— not all of them, but a lot of wines get better with age, and I wanted to invest in some clothing and have something that I could keep for a long time and would get better over time, that had a sense of place, that was one of the best things in the world, but that wasn’t pompous.”

The Raleigh Denim Workshop is open from 12-6 p.m. every day. Customers can survey its products in person or on their online store, found at raleighdenimworkshop.com, including shirts, dresses and unique custom fits.

Photo by Clifford Maske The Union Special 43200G machine in Raleigh Denim Workshop. The Union Special 43200G was a machine initially used for bag-sealing but has since been adapted to hem all the jeans produce by Raleigh Denim Workshop.

Photo by Clifford Maske Back patches of jeans being hand-engraved to then be sewn on at Raleigh Denim Workshop in downtown Raleigh. All products made by Raleigh Denim Workshop are made and sewn by employees on machines.

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To Build a

Platform

By Emily Hench NC State is home to a multitude of student-run projects spanning all of its departments, from the sciences to the humanities. One of these, a fashion magazine, is seeking to reinvent itself in the upcoming year.

What is Platform?

Though Platform’s name is new, this fashion magazine has been at NC State for the past three years under the name Pack Fashion, with the upcoming fourth year being the first under their new name. The magazine is published once a semester, and features a combination of articles and photo spreads, with both focusing in on one topic: fashion.

Platform’s current editor in chief is Hannah Williams, a fourth-year studying fashion and textile management.

“My role now is a lot more organized around the backend development, like finding funding, where do we print, where’s the best deal for printing, the hiring process, organizing all of our meetings, and kind of working on a general structure and vision,” Williams said. “I work with the leaders for each team to create a holistic vision, and to make sure everything is on brand. It’s centered a lot around communicating.”

Making a Magazine

In the making of any publication a lot of time goes into planning out what will eventually go into the magazine, particularly in what themes and aesthetics Platform’s board members want to include in each issue.

“We start in the beginning, so right when school starts, we meet with the board,” Williams said. “It’s sort of like a budget meeting, where we go over what topics we want to cover, what photoshoots we want to cover, how we want to use social media to compliment that.”

According to Williams, the entire process of making an issue of Platform takes about two months, spanning everything from photoshoots to editing and designing the layout of the issue. With many elements working together, scheduling is key to things running smoothly.

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Photo by Clifford Maske Destini Morton, a third-year studying fashion and textile management and Platform model, posing for shot during Platform’s shoot day on Sunday, September 22 in downtown Raleigh. Models for Platform wear close from their own closets, as wells as the closets of stylists for shoots.

“We try to make it so that we have a photoshoot and then a week between, so that people can edit and send it to the design staff, who formats it,” Williams said. “We try to get everything done a couple of weeks before printing.

Styles and Models

With a magazine focused on fashion, Platform’s stylists and models collaborate to create a unifying image for each photo spread.

Alex Neighbour, a third-year studying fashion and textile management, is the assistant to the lead stylist for Platform this year, and spoke about being a stylist.

“A stylist is basically the person that puts together all of the clothing and outfits for a shoot,”Neighbour said. “Us personally, we’re the ones that have to bring the clothing to the shoot that matches the aesthetics that we want to achieve in the shoot. As a stylist, you take the pieces, put them together, and when we’re physically at the shoot, we’re making the models stand or be positioned in a way that best resembles the clothing and photography style.”

According to Neighbour, the stylists put together outfits using clothes from their own wardrobes, creating ensembles that emulate high-end fashion or other aesthetics from what they have available to them.

“The most challenging thing is being able to get those pieces,” Neighbour said. “A lot of people don’t own pieces that are matching to the shoot and what we’re trying to achieve, so being able to take those pieces and work with what we have.”

While the stylists prepare the outfits, the models who wear them put in their own share of work.

Ariana Ferreira Platform’s Director of Modeling and a fourth-year studying fashion and textile management, spoke about how she assigns models to each photoshoot.

“I kind of love how hectic it is, which sounds a little weird, but a lot goes into it,” Ferreira said. “It’s very back and forth when we are just coming up with ideas and spitballing them, to even when we’re just at the photoshoot, the models are getting styles, and we’re just thinking ‘what else can we do with her hair, what else can we do to go the extra step and make it look just a little more different,’ and having our models interact with each other. I can tell when the models are having fun; it can be really scary the first time... so when they get into the vibe of it and they start having fun with it, I love seeing that.”

Destini Morton, a third-year studying fashion and textile management, was one of the models for Platform’s upcoming issue, and talked about her previous modeling experience.

“Modeling is the most about what you feel, and less of your appearance,” Morton said. “Definitely making sure you have a sense of confidence in yourself, as well as knowing that no matter what you’re wearing or what location you’re in, you can make it look however you perceive it to look as long as you feel comfortable.”

Photo by Clifford Maske Platform Magazine Editor-in-Chief Hannah Williams, a fourth-year studyingfashion and textile management in Wilson College of Textiles on Wednesday, September 18.

Prior to this year, Platform was branded as Pack Fashion.

Picture Perfect

One of the magazine’s main forms of content, its fashion spreads, requires collaboration between models, stylists and photographers.

Neighbour spoke more on how the content for each photoshoot is decided on.

“We always come up with shoots at the beginning of the year,” Neighbour said. “Normally the board meets and puts together the best shoots and the actual subjects of the shoot.”

Ferreira spoke more about the process for preparing for each photoshoot.

“Basically what happens is that we’ll select some models for a photoshoot, a few photographers and a few stylists, and we’ll all come together and we’ll make it happen kind of out of nowhere,” Ferreira said. “We’ll get clothes from the stylist’s closets, and we’ll shoot at our member’s apartments in our kitchens and our breakfast areas, and we’ll put up a background sheet— we’ve literally just used a sheet before— and we’ll just start shooting.”

Neighbour also spoke about the ideas behind one of their photoshoots for their next issue, to be published at

Photo by Clifford Maske Alex Neighbour, a third-year studying fashion and textile management and assistant to the lead stylist for Platform on Sunday, September 22 in downtown Raleigh. Stylists work collaboratively with models and stylists to craft outfits for Platform’s photoshoots.

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the end of the Fall 2019 semester.

“For this one, we wanted to focus on a high-end design, so basically, we take what we see in high-end streetwear and fashion to be, and we take clothing that we have that best resembles that design, and then we put them together,” Neighbour said.

Moving Forward

With their recent change in name, both Williams and Ferreira are looking to the future of Platform as a magazine. Ferreira hopes that this rebranding will help their readers see a clearer image of what their publication intends to achieve.

“What I hope for most in Platform this year is to really hone in on the new branding that we’re going through,” Ferreira said. “I think in the past, we’ve had a lot of great ideas, but it’s been very sporadic. We’re getting a lot more exposure now, so I hope that people start to see who we are, why we’re doing this. We’re not just a fashion magazine that cares about trends, we’re trying to push new event happening in the world.”

According to Williams, the magazine has been sold in Talley and Wilson College of Textiles in past years, though they hope to expand distribution for this upcoming year.

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Photo by Clifford Maske Ariana Ferreira, Director of Modeling for Platform and a fourth-year studying fashion and textile management in Wilson College of Textiles on Wednesday, September 18.

Platform operates with Directors overseeing student volunteers.

“I really want it to represent being empowered,” Williams said. “It’s always been such a great example of the creativity of our students, but I want to make sure that we’re working to educate our team and educate people that read it. I want to make sure that when people read [Platform], they take something away from it, and that it leaves an impact. I want it to bring a sense of community beyond just the team itself.”

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Photo by Clifford Maske The workspace of Julia Koff, a fourth-year studying art and design, on October 9 in Leazar Hall. Each year, the art and design program puts on Art2Wear, a student-run event to show off wearable innovations designed by NC State students.

By Rachael Davis Within NC State’s College of Design is the Art + Design discipline, in which students master the art of capturing an audience, portraying emotion, and showing innovation all through a variety of creative media, including illustration, web design and animation. However, fibers is one specific and unique concentration in Art + Design that students can focus on while pursuing their degree.

According to Precious Lovell, an associate professor of the practice in Art + Design, there are many courses at NC State that cater strictly to fibers concentrated students. Lovell said the number of Fibers concentrated projects in studio differs from semester to semester.

However, the projects assigned often give students much room for creative freedom.

“Over the years, students have used almost all of the resources in the College of Design for various projects in the Fibers Studio,” Lovell said.

According to Lovell, students always have access to the college’s sewing labs, Dyeing and Finishing lab, laser cutters, wood shop, metal shop, computer labs and more.

However, Fibers concentrated students are not limited to designing for their studio and classes. Art2Wear is one of the most highly anticipated events of the year among Art + Design students, with participants working from the beginning of the fall semester up until the event itself, held at the end of the spring semester each year. According to a Technician article from April 2019, Art2Wear gives Art + Design students the chance to showcase their fashion and costume collections to the Raleigh community.

“Art2Wear was started in a Fibers studio 19 years ago,” Lovell said. “It is a year-long process that requires a great deal of focus and dedication. Since many students who participate in Art2Wear create their own fabrics, it can be a very time-consuming process.”

According to Lovell, some students even start and work on their Art2Wear collections during the Fibers studio throughout the semester.

“Last year, a Fibers student created eight ensembers for her Art2Wear collection that all started as white pieces of cloth,” Lovell said. “In the end, there was no white cloth anywhere in her collection. She hand dyed her fabric with natural dyes, she screen printed her fabrics and she had embroidered and beaded her garments. She draped and drafted the patterns for the collection, and she constructed the entire collection herself.”

Similar to the Art2Wear designers, the directors begin planning early in the year. As stated in a Technician article from 2019, Tess Wiegmann, the co-director of Art2Wear in 2019, began planning in the summer.

Wiegmann also said that Art2Wear is important for College of Design students; it is an opportunity for students to show off the projects and skills they have been refining all year. Even though most of the designers in Art2Wear are Art + Design majors, it is not a requirement. Students can participate through graphic design, photography and fundraising, Wiegmann said in the Technician article.

Students who are interested in learning more about the Art + Design program and Art2Wear can visit the department’s website at design.ncsu.edu/academics/ art-design.

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Fall Flavors

Apple Bacon Panini Ingredients 8 slices sourdough bread 4 tablespoons butter, at room temperature 4 tablespoons apple butter 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese 1 1/2 cups shredded havarti cheese 1 honeycrisp apple, thinly sliced 8 slices cooked bacon honey, for drizzling 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves

Directions 1. Heat either a Panini press or large skillet over medium high heat.

2. Spread the outside of each slice of bread with butter. Spread the inside of half of the slices of bread with apple butter. On top of the apple butter, evenly layer the cheeses, apples, and bacon. Drizzle honey over top and sprinkle with thyme. Add the top piece of bread, buttered side facing up.

3. Place the sandwiches, one at a time, into the panini press and cook until the cheese is melted.

Serve each sandwich with a drizzle of honey an fresh thyme.

Orange Hot Chocolate

Ingredients 1 1/2 cups whole milk 1 tablespoon powdered sugar 2-3 strips of orange peel (try to get as little of the white part of the orange as possible) 1 ounce dark chocolate Optional toppings: whipped cream, shaved choclate, orange zest Directions 1. Combine milk, sugar, and orange peel in a small saucepan and place over medium heat.

2. Break chocolate up into small pieces a bowl.

3. Stir milk frequently and heat until hot but not boiling. Pour hot milk over chocolate and stir until chocolate is melted.

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