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...despite Guest’s assertion that using Gore as a design inspiration would only result in a fashion faux pas, she adheres to Gore’s policy of reducing, reusing, and recycling. In fact, she normally buys second-hand clothes, and enthusiastically recommends that people buy food at expired food markets like “Amazing Savings” in her hometown of Ashville...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Julie Claire "JC" Guest ’11 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

Confident in her design, Guest prepares to take the Sanctum by storm...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Julie Claire "JC" Guest ’11 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...scratch with 24 dollars in 24 hours? For fashion veteran Lucy W. Baird ’10, this is a familiar challenge. Both the defending champion from last year’s FM Fast Fashion Challenge, and an active member of The Vestis Council, a Harvard organization for fashion design Baird is old hat at anything involving fabric and scissors. It’s a Friday afternoon and the clock reads 4 p.m. The designers are given names of famous Harvard alumni on slips of paper as inspiration for the looks they will create. Baird picks...

Author: By Sha Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lucy W. Baird ’10 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...also part of FM’s Fast Fashion Challenge. Her many other commitments for the day leave her with only one and a half hours to buy her materials and make some serious progress on her Bill Gates (initially class of 1977, although subsequent drop-out) inspired design. She is enthusiastically tearing apart the seams of a large men’s oxford shirt when I meet her in front of Boylston Hall. We walk to Micro Center in the hopes that Burruss will find a few Gates-worthy embellishments to add to the halter dress she plans...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meriweather H. Burruss ’11 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...sheet of black and white print fabric from the Finnish design company Marimekko hangs on one wall, stretched across a handmade frame. Vases from BoConcept adorn the black shelves mounted against the wall, while a black papasan sits across from them. A pair of glazed wooden tables—the tops are cross-sections of some large tree—rests on a black carpet, exuding sculptural finesse. The orange linoleum flooring is invisible under a sheet of white vinyl. Lights installed on the ceiling shine through white fabric, casting a muted glow throughout the room...

Author: By Sha Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pimp My Dorm Room | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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