This is the first of three interviews I did with inspirational fashion design students. A peep into their brains. So enlightening. Story telling in clothes.
As the student fashion shows wrap up for another year, and graduates’ job search plans are put on short term hold while well-earned vacations are embarked upon, I’ve had a moment to reflect on this year’s stands outs. If Parsons represents the cream of the crop, it is there I must return to seek out the three BFA students whose visions for their runway have lingered in my mind while those of others have since faded to mere line-ups of clothes. As the students lie tanning on a beach or lounge till noon in their pjs, mentally preparing to thrust themselves into an industry whose commercial restraints and corporate conditioning will contort their creativity in previously unimaginable directions, I want to know what they were thinking about during this halcyon year of pure creativity? Here is the cream of the crop in their own words. The first one is Lea Germano…please click here
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*Storytelling in clothes* How eloquent!
Love this post Jackie. So interesting. Thanks for sharing. I hope you are well. Emma xx
Thanks Emma, good to hear from you. How’s it going with you and yours? 🙂
These interviews are a great idea. It really helps me appreciate the amount of work and dedication it takes to succeed in fashion.
BTW my mum is reading Silk for the Feed Dogs and loving it too! 🙂
Thanks Olivia!
How lovely, I hope your mum’s enjoying it 🙂
Amazing to hear how her design process works, her history and her plans. Ahhh, to be young and the World before you! 😉
I vaguely remember it. Scary too. I wouldn’t go back for all the world. But what wisdom I would carry back to myself if I could…
If we had that Wisdom, we would have never had the … uh… ya’know to get anything remotely out there done.
Holy Moley! Lea’s work makes my heart sing!!! What talent! Thank you for sharing!!
Sh’s great. I hope she does well, I’m sure she will. 🙂