Midnight City

Josh Charles as Acid Jordain 
Photo Credit: Armoni E. Lyles

Today, we’re starting our new window project, for the 3^rd floor of our building where there's a giant window where we do styling and dressing. We’ve decided to showcase one of our own student designers Josh Charles. We’re going to set up his Fall/Winter 2013 Costume Collection, Midnight City featured in the 2013 Fashion Show, StyleWow.

"My collection is inspired by nightlife performers such as celebrities and drag queens and it's meant to reflect the fascination of the major cities at night like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Working at night clubs and seeing cities at night creates experiences like watching a fantasy or science fiction film come to life." 

Sketch by Josh Charles

For his collection, Josh used Lycra using blues, grays, silvers and blacks as his colors. His collections and sketches can be viewed @fierce2themaxx on Twitter and Instagram as well as Facebook.com/acidfierce and Facebook.com/joshfierceness.

 3rd Floor covered for new showcase

 Mannequins hanging out while we come up with our plan

hello glamour!

I am so excited to have been given the chance to do another shoot with Project Runway garments! This time I chose a dress by Casanova who designed this garment during All Stars. On the show, the garment came with a gold belt which I decided to take away during the shoot to add more emphasis on the beautiful embroidery on this dress as well as to create more a subtle and feminine look, totally opposite of my other photoshoot. My model for this dress, is my very own classmate, Devi. Devi naturally has beautiful eyes and skintone that I felt would bring out the tones of this garment, and so it did! I kept this look very feminine, classy, and wanted to do a typical glamour/head shot. My photographer for this was Lyn Aldana, who did a perfect job at capturing the beauty of this garment and my model.

Weekend Quote

"Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static"

Oleg Cassini

Katy Buchmueller

About Katy:
Katy is originally from Amsterdam but grew up just outside of Cleveland, Ohio in a liberal town called Lakewood. She discovered her passion for fashion after visiting a seamstress aunt back home in Amsterdam.There she willingly watched her aunt sew. After that Summer, Katy was enthusiastic about making her own clothes and thus a designer was born. Katy has her lovely aunt to thank for the point towards the right path.

What are your inspirations?
The two main elements that drive my entire collection is surfing and the deep blue Ocean. The power of the sea makes me channel every aspect of it to create a sporty yet feminine array of clothing.

                                             

Who is your role model and why?

Katy stated that apart from the obvious ones like her family and friends.In terms of the fashion world, she always looked up to the late Yves Saint Laurent. She continues to explain that it was his determination to build a name of for himself that sparked her attention and perhaps is her fuel for staying motivated. 

What are your plans for the future?

Graduating is the first thing on Katy's mind at this point. She hopes that that would be a stepping stone to reaching other dreams like potentially working for a respectable company in their design department. Katy is hopeful of the future and is excited to see what it has in store for her.

Which designer would you love to work with and why?

As an innovative designer herself, Katy is thrilled at the idea of working with either Rodarte or Proenza Schouler. She believes that each designer is impeccably astonishing at what they do best. Rodarte for their extraordinary kniting techniques and Proenza for their astounding and refreshing prints. 

Come to the StyleWOW! Fashion Show on June 15th at the S.F Design Center. For Tickets: stylewow.brownpapertickets.com. Come see Katy's entire collection and more!