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