TigerTrends Nov 2022

TIGERTRENDS

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TigerTrends showcases the best of fashion, art, and lifestyle on campus and beyond. We are committed to inclusion and diversity at every level of our organization and the collections we release. Every two months, we release a digital magazine curated from scratch by our talented team of editors, stylists, photographers, and journalists. In between issues, you can explore more of our journalists’ content on our website and our videographers’ work on our Youtube channel. From cozy to chic and the street to the classroom, TigerTrends shows how fashion, art, and lifestyle choices inspire Princeton students to feel their best.

Everyone can fashion. We just put it in a book.

ADRIAN MORIERA-BEHRENS ‘24 CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

KATE VAN DUSEN '24 CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

CO-EDITOR IN CHIEFS LETTER FROM THE

Dear Readers,

Hello and happy fall from the TigerTrends staff! With midterms behind us and Thanks giving break fast approaching, we are wishing you a restful and fun time with family at home or friends on campus before we return for the last stretch of the semester!

The theme for this month’s book is “Runway”, inspired by fall fashion weeks in New York City and beyond. We are so grateful and proud to collaborate with the Sankofa Golden Hour Show for this issue. We would like to thank Max Diallo Jakobsen (2024) and the Sankofa team for working with us and letting us share the event with the community.

This edition highlights the amazing work done at the Sankofa fashion show last spring which brought fashion week runway vibes to Princeton. We are excited for you to see the work of our fellow students who designed and crafted the pieces shown on the runway and modeled both traditional and modern takes on African fashion.

As always, we are so grateful for our wonderful TigerTrends team and our loyal read ers for helping this edition come to life. You all help us to embody the TigerTrends motto that anyone can fashion!

Don’t forget to follow @tiger.trends on Instagram for updates on upcoming fashion events and Fall style inspo! We hope you enjoy this issue!

xx,

Kate Van Dusen and Adrian Moreira-Behrens Co-Editors in Chief

CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEFS

ADRIAN MORIERA-BEHRENS '24 KATE VAN DUSEN '24

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

APRIL DONG '24

PHOTO & VIDEO DIRECTOR LAURA ROBERTSON '24

STYLING DIRECTOR

TOREE WILKS '24

JOURNALISM DIRECTOR SIERRA STERN '24

PR DIRECTOR/EIC EMERITA CAMILLE REEVES '23

EDITORS

HELENA RICHARDSON '26

JULIA YING '26

LOGAN OYAMA '24

STYLISTS

ANASTASIA ACHIAA '25 AYINDE BRADFORD '24

FRONT COVER

PHOTOGRAPHER: SHAKIRU BOLO OKOYA

STYLIST: ANASTASIA ACHIAA '25

MODEL: FEDJINE VICTOR '22

PHOTOGRAPHERS

SHAKIRU BOLA OKOYA

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Victor Barragan: Después del Caos Viene La Luz Sankofa

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enowned for his avantgarde, contentious designs,

This Spring 2023 season, Barragan took his creativity to another level as he critiqued inherently white American culture in “Después Del Caos Viene La Luz (After Chaos Comes Light)”. The West Village runway was covered in crushed soda cans, empty plastic water bottles, and dollar bills, and graffiti newspapers and cartoons painted the walls. Metal fences lined the stage creating the illusion of being "fenced in" for spectators as they waited for the show to begin. Models strutted through graffitied porta-potty doors, fitted with prosthetics depicting exaggerated lip injections and attire seemingly unraveling apart.

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Barragan specifically sent white and white-passing models down the runway to sell the idea of "whiteness masked as diversity". Barragan pieces were decorated with gaudy slogans like "J'adore your hole", "White Tears", "homophobe", "canceled twice", and other jarring phrases. The show is set from the viewpoint of Barragan arriving in the United States for the first time as a Mexican immigrant and experiencing a bigoted society that puts on the

facade of being progressive and diverse. The slogan pieces like "homophobe" allude to the fact that since the 2016 election, white Americans have become emboldened to voice bigotry in vulgar manners. He not only references corporatism in the U.S. through his all-white take illustrating store-front diversity but also through dressing models with iconic commodities like Coca-Cola taped to their silhouette, highlighting that we, Americans, are inseparable

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from the product. As his pieces fall apart on stage, their disrepair stresses to the audience that the money, overconsumption, and greed in America will eventually lead to its demise.

Beginning as a local t-shirt designer in 2010, Barragan has truly evolved into a visionary within the fashion industry. As he now plans to remove himself from the NYFW roster and return to Mexico, the show was intended to serve as an immense commentary on his time working in the industry and living in New York City. Stated to W Magazine in an interview, Barragan hopes people leave the show “paying attention and being more aware about what they are consuming."

Regardless of perception, it's clear Barragan has no plans to dilute his messaging to appear more palatable in the industry.

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PHOTOGRAPHER: SHAKIRU BOLA OKOYA EDITOR: JULIA YING

TRADITIONAL

TRADITIONAL

Odds are that if you were on Instagram, TikTok, or Twitter during the first week of October, you most likely saw one of the most iconic fashion moments in history: Bella Hadid’s spray-on dress.

“This combination of fashion and science is the future...”

Coperni, established in 2013, has been known for deconstructive minimalism with odes to closet staples through modern techniques such as only using one piece of fabric to create their pieces. Their Spring 2023 show, titled “Coperni Femme,” was inspired by their 2015 collection that focused on female silhouettees and feminity. The show began with classic dresses with diagonal cut outs across the chest, which were a common theme throughout the collection.The show then transitioned into a more sporty and streamlined design with floral notes. As Meryl Streep’s character Miranda Priestly says in The Devil Wears Prada in a very sarcastic tone, “Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking.” Nothing was revolutionary, and several pieces were strikingly similar to pieces from their previous collections and from other houses such as Balenciaga, Prada, and Chanel, among others.

The highlight of the show came at the very end, when superstar model, Bella Hadid, walked out nearly nude wearing just an undergarment, with only her arm covering her breasts. Scientist Dr. Manel Torres, a fashion designer turned chemist, and a colleague came out on stage and utilized a spray-on fabric that dried directly onto Hadid’s body, epitomizing a focus on female silhouettes. The spray, known as Fabrican, turns into fabric once it comes into contact with air and was created by Dr. Torres.

Luke Leitch from Vogue describes the smell of the chemicals as “strong and synthetic,” but Hadid kept her stance and seemed unphased, reinforcing her iconic status. She then walked down the runway with this newly-crafted dress that was in a bottle just minutes prior. The dress resembled latex with a slit and offshoulder straps that were cut by Charlotte Raymond, Coperni’s Head of Design. This technology has finally made this a onesize-fits-all garment that people have been yearning for. This combination of fashion and science is the future, especially with the necessity of more eco-friendly ways of producing clothes. Coperni creative directors Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer say that this dress could be turned back into liquid and reused. In addition, another model (Vitorria Ceretti) showcased an 18-karat gold bag that could be melted back down, which it was after the show.

This technology has finally made this a one-size-fits-all garment that people have been yearning for.

“How will haute-couture stay true to their roots?”

Ultimately, the show did not showcase any revolutionary pieces besides the final dress that Bella Hadid wore, but it highlighted their commitment to search for more sustainable ways to look at clothing production, while staying true to the classical inspirations in fashion. However, it does leave an interesting question for the future of the fashion industry: how will hautecouture stay true to their roots of highlighting the time and effort that seamstresses put into making garments with these new ways of producing garments? Haute-couture and fashion houses have prioritized the craftsmanship that goes into creating garments and accessories. But with these new ways of producing these garments in a matter of minutes through new machines and technologies, it may result in a shift away from the tradition that highlights the effort and dedication that seamstresses put into these garments.