Word: asianness
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...show, and it’s not just the questionably glamorous locale of the Lowell Dining Hall. This isn’t your standard parade of fashion: it’s “Identities,” an ambitious show designed to showcase fashion while simultaneously defining the Asian-American identity...
...Identities,” in its first year of production, undeniably smaller than the Liz Claiborne and Morgan Stanley-sponsored “Eleganza” behemoth, but the mission of each show was decidedly different. Where the fledgling “Identities” intended to scrutinize carefully Asian-American culture, the broad, diversity-encouraging mission of “Eleganza” was ultimately obscured in the dazzling runway spectacle...
...Identities” was primarily the brainchild of Nathaniel P. Gunawan ’07 and Vicky Wu ’09, who each independently e-mailed then Asian American Association (AAA) President Sanby Lee ’08 about using fashion to explore Asian-American heritage...
What they did was divide the show into four segments, each representing different parts of the Asian-American identity: “Inspirations,” which featured standard runway fashion, “East Meets West,” “Chinatown” and the “Golden Ghetto,” which focused on the San Franciso Bay Area Asian-American community...
...feel like you need to belong before you can set yourself apart,” says Wu. “The spectrum moved from ‘Inspirations,’ applicable to everyone, then ‘East meets West,’ Asian minorities in white suburbia. Then we moved into ‘Chinatown,’ and then we moved onto the most extreme, where Asians suddenly become the majority...