Word: fashionization
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...flipped through Vogue. But lack of the ever-pregnant Heidi Klum aside, there’s something different about this 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...
...weeks later, models again took the stage on the Harvard campus, as throngs of students swarmed the Harvard Bright Hockey Center for the thirteenth year of “Eleganza.” While the very existence of two fashion shows in the span of a month might be anomalous for Harvard, something else stood out: this event had ethnic undertones as well...
...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...
...It’s a brilliant idea—let’s make political commentary through fashion,” says Gunawan, a co-producer of “Identities,” dressed in a knit cap and argyle green and crimson sweater—nothing but the most fashionable for the man voted Mr. Eleganza. “But when you think about it, it’s like ‘Oh god, what am I going...
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...