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...Winmil Fabrics is a dingy, unassuming store overflowing with fabrics in every color and texture: from stretch cotton to light chiffon, patterned fleeces to psychedelic prints, faux fur to feather boas, oversized buttons, sturdy zippers, and spools of thread. This is square one for fashion design, a place where three dollars will buy you thirty inches of zipper...
...Sung, who is also a Crimson Arts Columnist, strolls through the fabric store’s aisles and aisles of multi-colored buttons and faux-fur. Despite the one-day time crunch, Sung is the essence of cool. Dressed in a casual white button-down and gray wool sweater loosely tied around her waist, Sung slings a CVS bag filled with Kraft Easy Mac on one arm, and brown leather handbag across the other...
...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...
...mind, she heads out with fellow competitor, Vicky D. Sung ’10, to a fabric store in Boston. Winmil Fabrics is a dingy, unassuming store overflowing with fabrics in every color and texture: from stretch cotton to light chiffon, patterned fleeces to psychedelic prints, faux fur to feather boas, oversized buttons, sturdy zippers, and spools of thread. This is square one for fashion design, a place where three dollars will buy you thirty inches of zipper. “Usually, I have an idea before I buy the fabric,” says Baird, as she browses determinedly...
...It’s collegiate preppy with a hint of downtown New York,” Sung says. Think Ralph Lauren with a twist. Sung, who is also a Crimson Arts Columnist, strolls through the fabric store’s aisles and aisles of multi-colored buttons and faux-fur. Despite the one-day time crunch, Sung is the essence of cool. Dressed in a casual white button-down and gray wool sweater loosely tied around her waist, Sung slings a CVS bag filled with Kraft Easy Mac on one arm, and brown leather handbag across the other...