WTF! December 2015

The White Issue Issue #25 December 2015

K-POP!

Jillian Nickerson

8

DEZINING SHEARZ

12

WHITE NYMPH

20

BEAUTIES IN WHITE

24

FEATURED DESIGNER

27

Rene Velasco/Kila Herve

John Austin/Nicole Bisson Mark Anthony

Gianna Rose Reynolds/Kuriio

DESIGNER FASHION

30

FASHIONABLY FIT

40

SHOP LOCAL

48

Kessa Vanell Karen Patmas Shannon Stroup

Aubreyana Marie Anderson

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The F word Traditions Matter “Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book Traditions are important because they define our identity.

In the world of fashion, postmodernism has changed the way people see fashion, allowing them to be creative and unique in their own way. Tradition has always defined fashion and has taught us that men wear pants, women wear skirts and dresses, and brides always wear white wedding dresses. In essence, tradition tends to define our identity based on what we wear.

However, these fashionable traditions are constantly being challenged. Traditional white wedding dresses are long gone.

Women are no longer limited to one color when it comes to picking their wedding dresses. Business suits and ties are no longer just for men. Nowhere is tradition being challenged more than in the area of accessories and jewelry.

Earrings and purses are no longer just for women as more and more men express their creativity by wearing earrings and carrying satchels. Even hairstyles are no longer as predictable as sporting long hair for men and buzz haircuts for women.

So, if you weren’t in the circle and thus in the know, you dared not wear white to indicate that you belonged to the upper strata of society. Not to mention the fact that the popular fashion magazines were often run and controlled by the cognoscenti.

Another theory about this traditional fashion rule centers around the fact that during the colder months heaters were fueled by coal and this often produced soot which soiled light-colored fabrics.

Fortunately, those conditions no longer force us to follow tradition.

So, in a salute to the fashion dictum we chose to feature beautiful women decked in white fabric. After all, the winter months bring lots of the color white with the usual snow and ice.

K-POP If you haven’t been living under a rock and are a certain age range, you will probably know what K-Pop stands for. If you’re not familiar, K-Pop is an abbreviation of Korean Pop. It is a musical genre originating in South Korea characterized by a variety of audiovisual elements. It has grown into a subculture resulting in widespread interest in fashion and style of Korean idol groups and singers.

Expression and creative freedom have all but supplanted everything that is traditional in the world of fashion.

Glen Dow graduate, Jillian Nickerson is our cover girl for this issue and she’s totally into K-Pop. It was her idea to wear white and shoot in the cold and snow and when we found out that she was into K-Pop, we scheduled another shoot with her to feature K-Pop fashion.

Wearing White after Labor Day

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One of the traditions that has been around since the 1900s, is the dictum that you shouldn’t wear white after Labor Day. During the summer months, which is bracketed by Memorial Day and Labor Day, society often flocked en masse to seaside cottages or mountain cabins to escape the heat and preferred light-colored clothing. Once fall settled in, people put away their flimsy summer clothing and more formal “city” clothes were worn.

Christmas time is gift-giving time and while we’ve been enticed by the lure of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s important to show our support for the local businesses whose owners are often part of our local community and support local events and charities.

In order to solidify their identity and separate them from the masses, wives of the old-rich decided to make silly rules for fashion and one of them was the “don’t wear white after Labor Day”.

You may have your own local favorites but don’t forget to check out our list of local merchants as well as our featured salon in this issue.Dezining Shearz is a hair and nail salon in Spokane, WA. They teamed up with photographer Rene Velasco for some magic.

CREDITS

We appreciate the valuable contributions of the following.

Please show them some love by visiting their pages...

Photographers

Boutiques and Designers

Raymund Morales Photography http://www.rmoralesphoto.com/

Erinn Jennings - Dearest Darling https://www.facebook.com/dearest0darling

Rene Velasco https://www.facebook.com/Rene-Velasco-Photography

Graphic Design

John Austin https://www.flickr.com/photos/austinspace/

LAF Designs https://www.facebook.com/laura.feasline/

Mark Anthony http://anthonyproductions.com/

Myk Crawford https://www.facebook.com/mykcrawford

Barry Coon - Commercial Photographers http://www.commphoto.com/

Contributors

Lake City Photography http://www.lakecityphotography.com/

Erinn Jennings Dani Lundquist

Hair and Make Up

Aubreyana Marie Anderson

Kila Herve & Viridiana Velez https://www.facebook.com/deziningshearzsalonandboutique

Angelana Maria Danielle Perez

Glen Dow Academy http://glendow.com/ Model Management

Important Notice

Mitchell Artist Management http://www.wearemam.com/ Others 1899 Bed & Breakfast http://1899house.com/ Lucid Roots https://www.facebook.com/getfedbelucid/

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Model: Jillian Nickerson Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Jillian Nickerson Photographer: Eric Barro

K-POP FASHION

Featured Salon

DEZINING SHEARZ Hair and Nail Salon

Model: Ashley Hiatt Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Ashley Hiatt Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Rilee Short Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Rilee Short Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Rilee Short Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Ashley Hiatt Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Ashley Hiatt Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Rilee Short Hair: Kila Herve Make up: Viridiana Velez Photographer: Rene Velasco

Model: Nicole Bisson Photographer: John Austin

White Nymph

Model: Nicole Bisson Photographer: John Austin

“Who are the people in your neighborhood?”

Introducing: Gianna Rose Reynolds Article by: Erinn Jennings Photography by: Raymund Morales Photography Q: When did you start designing clothes and how did you get into it?

Art has always been a huge part of my life,my parents always encouraged us to read and draw and try new things.

I started sewing when I was young, before middle school.

Designing started in middle and high school on and off.

It wasn't until college that I started to think I could design and actually do something with it. When I was in a lot of sewing forums online and started to realize you didn't just have to buy and follow a pattern to sew, and that I could sew any way I wanted to. Even then I was mostly sewing just to try new things. Kuriio as a brand started in 2008 or 2009 when I came up with the word during a project in college and it stuck, it was the time when a style and a sense of technique started to appear in my work.

Q: What emotions or ideas do you want to project with your craft?

My "Classic" work is fun and frilly. Happy clothes. and idea wise I tried to portray that all clothing old and new has a sort of soul. I love old things and I love turning things that have been discarded in one way or another into something new, it is something I was brought up doing. So the clothing I started with was all taken apart and completely remade out of anything fabric I could find. A lot was given and gifted to me in those days and it was amazing fun and a puzzle to piece it into what I wanted it to look like. While my clothing has changed a lot over the years, the idea behind one of a kind clothing with a soul has not. A lot of my pieces still have reclaimed elements and borrowed or recycled things involved in the making of the piece (like my screen print and ink that was pulled out of a dumpster). I do buy some specific fabric at retail stores now, but I still prefer the hunt and find at a thrift store and how special it is when someone gives me something they think i can use. I feel like those things hold more energy and more meaning then the fabric I just buy. But its really hard finding good black fabric at a thrift store!

Q: How has your style grown since you've begun?

In the last year or so it has split in two. I still love the frilly patchy stuff, and still make it. But I have been creating sleeker and darker pieces for this new line I am working on. I have also taken on a new technique each year or so, something new to learn. This year was the battle of stretch fabric and different seam finishings, and it has been a long battle but I always want to learn more about sewing, and I am completely self-taught past my mom and grandma teaching me the machine so long ago.

Q: Any new projects coming up?

More interesting conceptual photoshoots, a video project or two. Who knows, anything and everything I can fit into my schedule.

Q: What are your current projects?

I am working on a new line. Darker clothes for alien humans. Drastic new style for this line and I am so happy with it! Had a few set backs but I am excited to say the line will debut with a runway show at Runway Renegades this year.

Q: What advice do you have for other indie/local designers?

Keep creating. Always. As much as possible. Even when you hate it, even when you are tired. Just do it, it doesn't always have to be your main medium. I paint, make some jewelry, knit, and try all sorts of different things to keep my mind fresh with ideas.

Also, get out there, find your community, contact models you haven't worked with. Offer to help with other people’s projects. Don't believe that just because you like to do one thing, or live is a small place that you are stuck in a box.

Q: Do you have a website? What will we find on your website?

My web site is www.kuriio.com It was relaunched this year and I am very excited about it. You will find info on both of my lines as well as my design and jewelry portfolios, links to my shop and a blog.

Q: How/where can we buy your products?

You can buy my products at kuriio.etsy.com and from my website, or Facebook directly through me.

Model: Kessa Vanell Lapel Shift $395

by Rachel Zoe Photographer: Eric Barro Model: Sarah Patterson

Model: Karen Patmas Jadore Contrast Gown $598

by Monique Lhuillier Make up: Julie Farley Photographer: Eric Barro Lighting: Barry Coon

Model: Karen Patmas Cynthia Gown $430

by TY-LR Make up: Julie Farley Photographer: Eric Barro Lighting: Barry Coon

Model: Ashley Talbot Oceanic Cape $598

by Nanette Lepore Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Karen Patmas Make up: Julie Farley Photographer: Eric Barro Lighting: Barry Coon

Model: Ashley Talbot Oceanic Cape $598

by Nanette Lepore Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amy Sue Encinas Calvino Brown Sheath - $495 Quennel Coat - $895

by Theory Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Shannon Stroup Tori Garden Dress $295

by Jay Godfrey Radiance Romper $190

by Lovers + Friends Photographer: Eric Barro Lighting: Barry Coon

Model: Ashley Talbot Elisabetta Dress $850

by Versace Collection Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Shannon Stroup Love Glow Sheath $268

by Jill Jill Stuart Photographer: Eric Barro Lighting: Barry Coon

Model: Ashley Talbot Elisabetta Dress $850

by Versace Collection Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Shannon Sadie Clemenson Stroup VillaGarden Tori Vest - $398 Dress $295

by Jay Nanette Godfrey Lepore Photographer: Eric Barro Lighting: Barry Coon

Model: Ashley Talbot Veda Sheath $1695

by Cushnie Et Ochs Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Shannon Stroup Love Glow Sheath $268 Model: Ashley Talbot Sadie Clemenson

by Jill Jill Stuart Veda Sheath $1695 Tux Dress - $407 Photographer: Eric Barro

by Cushnie Et Ochs Rachel Zoe Lighting: Barry Coon Photographer: Eric Barro

FML

Fashion’s My Life an irreverent point of view

by Angelana Maria Danielle Perez

It's said that fashion belongs to the youth and designers are encouraging us with just that. To remove the haze of necessity to re-enter a youthful scope of fascination.

An ever changing fervor for recreation and variation, to which speaks volumes of proof that youth has no a age or limitation... merely and open mind and plentiful abundance.

We the consumer are faced with perhaps the widest ranging array of choices. Fashion continuously plays itself out through each generations interpretation so with this well-spring we have where shall it take us?

Well, yet to be determined of if the excess is the result of the trend or if the trend is the excess of things yet to be determined, either or, there's a phenomenon that has proven itself more than note worthy. Beings this admirable plethora, I adoringly deem it the age of Clash Fashion!

Warmly enhancing our layering season needs yet challenging the boundaries of acceptance among colo color, texture, balance, and form.

Take note and follow suit in the fruitful variety of youthful ambition we're offered. For this fall... more is, well, more! So ring in the new year with a new outlook and a visual expression to show it

Dusters are a well trusted coat that can turn into a bold statement the moment it’s nearly touching ground, its lengthening silhouette of the body, its pockets, collars, and sleeves reimagined, revamped and ready to transform a basic cold weather necessity into a street-style wonder.

Fashion’s My Life an irreverent point of view

by Angelana Maria Danielle Perez

FML

Patchwork takes to the runway almost as a print in and of itself it was seen so much. Even something as psychedelic as patchwork gets to undergo the ultimate chic transformation for this season. More is clearly more, as pointed out by the clashing prints, colors and fabrics for Etro, Valentino, and Chloe.

FML

Fashion’s My Life an irreverent point of view

by Angelana Maria Danielle Perez

A whole new wave of the velvet underground has overwhelmingly made it's claim to the world of clash fashion! Extreme decisiveness and confidence in the wear-ability of an "out dated" texture that is truly the next furthest extent of luxe just under silk.

Fashion’s My Life an irreverent point of view

by Angelana Maria Danielle Perez

FML

Speaking of silks and satin...naturally I must implore you all again ladies, if you've still yet to ramp up your femme fatale section of the closet...slips slips slips! It has the longevity to stand time and will always be a secret weapon to use the sexy subtlety any layered ensemble might be missing.

-Shine-ease, because glitz should be effortless and accent the body without ruining your night out. Use any of these inspiring looks for an extra sparkle in more than your eye ^_~ These shiny lovelies will amp up any look just as easily as a slip dress but with a bit more of a playfully bright feel.

Pant suits noticeably took to the dark side. The androgynous tailoring keeps on adding new chapters to its unending tale. More pant suits gone slouchy taking over the runways for autumn and winter. Tiny polka-dots, whispers of scarlet red and cinched waists represent some of the ways in which the suits grew infinitely more feminine this season.

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SHOP LOCAL Support your local merchants

Audrey’s A Boutique 3131 N Division St Spokane, WA (509) 324-8612

Katze Boutique 720 W Riverside Ave Spokane, WA (509) 838-5724

Swank Boutique 4727 N Division St #100-D Spokane, WA Spokan (509) 468-1839

Echo Boutique 176 S Howard St, Spokane, WA Spokan (509) 747-0890

Jigsaw Boutique 601 W Main Ave #103 Spokane, WA (509) 835-3517

Apricot Lane 808 W Main Ave #216, Spokane, WA (509) 747-1580

Tangerine 1019 W 1st Ave Spokane, WA

Zipperz 913 W Garland Ave Spokane, WA (509) 315-9033

Lolo Boutique 319 W 2nd Ave, Spokane, WA (509) 747-2867 Fringe Boutique 12208 N D Division St Spokane, WA (509) 315-8138 Cues 108 N Washington St #104 Spokane, WA (509) 838-5837 Veda Lux 1106 S Perry St Spokane, WA (509) 475-1674

Jema Lane Boutique 613 S Pines Rd, Spokane Valley, WA (509) 321-2330 White House Black Ma Market 808 W Main Ave #104, Spokane, WA (509) 624-4001 NanaMacs Boutique 2018 N Main St, Coeur d'Alene, ID (208) 889-1444 Tiffany Blue 404 Sherman Ave, Coeur d'Alene, ID (208) 765-2583

SHOP LOCAL Support your local merchants

Dezining Shearz 21 S Thierman Rd, Spokane Valley, WA (509) 927-9870

Glen Dow Academy 309 W Riverside Ave, Spokane, WA (509) 624-3244

House of POp 227 W Riverside Ave, Spokane, WA Spokan (509) 443-5353

14th and Grand Salon 1337 S Grand Blvd, Spokane, Spokan WA (509) 624-7263

Lavish Salon 1 N Browne St, Spokane, WA Spokane, WA (509) 368-9800

Zen Hair Studio 42 E Wellesley Ave, Spokane, WA (509) 483-3936

Salon Sapphire 309 W 2nd Ave. #101 Spokane, WA (509) 474-1306

Jaazz Salon 421 W Main Ave #102, Spokane, WA (509) 838-4995

Vida Salon & Spa 1105 N Lincoln St, Spokane, WA

Patti Usselman Hair Company 14 E Mission Ave #5, Spokane, WA (509) 723-9827

Urbanna Natural Spa 168 S D Division St, Spokane, WA (509) 747-7076 Alexander York 827 W 1st Ave #121 Spokane, WA (509) 624-4936 Purabella Salon & Spa Pu 6704 N. Nevada Unit 5, Spokane, WA (509) 484-7003

Fratelli Salon 601 E Front Ave #103 Coeur d'Alene, ID (208) 664-4043 Hayden Creek Salon & Spa 8270 N Government Way, Hayden, ID (208) 772-4600 Bling 277 W Prairie Shopping Center, Hayden, ID (208) 762-3382