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...crest, along with a barrage of pink hearts. Gives a new meaning to the Pink(y) and the Brain. I, for one, heart this trend. Why not infuse your sweats with style? We Harvard types love to multitask, and what better way to simultaneously put your school spirit and fashion prowess on display than by donning Pink’s new Harvard garb? (Victoria’s) Secret’s out: the Harvard brand is pretty pervasive—you can find the “big H” on pretty much everything from dog bowls to bottle...
Creating an inspired look from 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...
Meriweather H. Burruss ’11 is on a tight schedule. Not only does she have a french test, ski team practice, and dinner plans with her dad, but she is 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...
...this small costume shop in high school...you’d sit there costuming for hours. It was tiny and stuffy—we called it the shop of horrors.” Now seated in the costuming area of Loeb Experimental Theatre, Dang, who has been involved in fashion since high school, talks about her experiences costuming for various shows at Harvard. One such show was “Playboy of the Western World,” a play that Dang insists was “a lot more innocuous than it sounds.” Dang also created...
...Natalie Portman ’03-inspired creation, which will be the first dress, incidentally, she has ever made for someone other than herself. “I alter all of my clothes, cut things here, pin things there,” Sung says. Her past experience in fashion has been in another realm of garments: t-shirts. She started making them in high school, specializing in “screen printing, lots of hand-stitching, embroidery, beading, and...a great attention to detail.” What began as a personal hobby has now become a full-fledged company...