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...America’s Next Top Model, but from the room next door and your Wednesday section. Nonetheless Eleganza, Identities and Project East annually take advantage of these spaces for fashion shows to raise funds for charity and alter the perceptions of minority communities on campus...
...smaller scale. By interweaving the minority communities and the fashion industry, these three shows disengage the former from its customarily passive role as a source of influence for the latter. They carve a new, active role for their respective communities to influence the perception and message of fashion on campus...
...surface, the two creative directors’ segments of the show—an exploration of the growing phenomenon of androgyny and a fanciful study of the college campus in thirty years—appear similarly detached from cultural roots. “Both have this futuristic theme, but both also look at what it means to be Asian in this structure,” says Nara M. Lee ’11, co-producer of Identities, adding that the directors looked closely at Asian design and fashion history during the creative process...
Before shows can even try to answer these greater questions, each group must garner attention, secure creative participation and, of course, raise money. The three shows face two main challenges in finding funding on campus: none is a stand-alone organization, and all find themselves unable to apply for Undergraduate Council grants due to their charitable status. These shows thus find themselves obligated to look beyond the obvious sources for financial support...
...committed to remaining an entirely Asian-American and Asian enterprise, was sponsored by the Reischauer Institute, which supports research on Japan, and the Korea Institute. Says Harel-Cohen, “there are these very big student organizations associated with minorities. We were linked to different Asian organizations on campus because they can raise the money. It’s much easier to do it from that framework than to just decide to put on a fashion show...