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...Identities constructed its latest runway and show in Annenberg this past Saturday, presenting its first annual Leadership in the Arts Award to acclaimed Asian-American designer Vera Wang. The more independent Project East put on its most recent show in November 2009 to exhibit the work of exclusively Asian and Asian-American student and professional designers...
...attempt to include the entire student population, Eleganza itself showcases diversity in both its featured cultural performances and the race, sexuality, and body type of its models. This year the show will open with the Asian-American Dance Troupe and close with a step performance from the Black Men’s Forum and the Association of Black Harvard Women. By uniting various forms of the arts, Eleganza aims to be a dazzling multicultural show rather than a presentation of fashion alone...
More subtly, Identities makes the Asian-American experience an undercurrent to multiple segments of the show. The clothes are from a broad spectrum of sources: student designers, local thrift stores, Harvard Square and Boston boutiques, and national brands that are not necessarily connected to the minority community...
Though originally conceived as a direct portrayal of Asian-American experience—the first show being partly set in San Francisco’s Chinatown—Identities has developed a different relationship with this community in the past two years. Another creative director Jane Chun ’12, a Crimson magazine comper, says she partly used fashion to respond to the current social, political, and economic climate. “Why do women want to dress this way? Why are certain trends occurring? These greater questions extend from fashion to a much larger stage. Yes, fashion...
...anoint a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens, the leading liberal on the bench and a 35-year veteran of the top court, who announced last week that he will retire at the end of this term. There's already talk of potential precedents: Will Obama appoint the first Asian-American Justice? Boost the number of women on the court to a historic three? No matter whom he chooses, once his nominee is confirmed, the President will have seated as many Justices as any first-term President since Richard Nixon (who pushed through four). And we're barely into Year...