Issue VII, Fall/Winter 2014
Editor-In-Chief
Senior Editors
Executive Director
Managing Editor
Fashion Director
Photography Director
Mitch McGuire
Amber Hammond
Alexander Singer
Alexander Singer Bonnie Babb-Cheshul
Rachel Davidson
Josh Orack
Design Director
Bonnie Babb-Cheshul
Assistant Design Director Marcos Olivarez
Assistant Photo Director Michelle Uzomba
Faculty Advisor Erin McGraw
Design Christine Lee Michelle Uzomba Asia Glenn Lee Ashworth Matt Campo Erin Haag Jessa Goldner
Photography Michael Mielke Clare Gatto Danielle Grace Allie Ezzo
Special Thanks to The Columbus Museum of Art Jacquar Jean-Jacques The Ohio Historical Center OSU Arts and Sciences Milk Bar Royal Factory Smartypants Vintage Thompson Library Map Room Urban Arts Space
Assistant Style Director Chloe Crites Style Kellye Sauder Eduardo Calzadilla Mackenzie Rollinson Secretary Petra Mourany Assistant Marketing Director Andrea Hoover Marketing Alexandra Flores Matt Campo Sami Kassirer Margaret Kennedy Dae Eyn Song
Assistant Writing Director Danielle Seamon Krystal Swanson Writing Henry Ross Alyssa Martig Lauren Todd Teni Lawal Leela Singh Nia Gayle Shannon Clegg Audra Heinrichs Dylan Telerski Shaili Rathod Qynshela Sanders Gary Lawrence Stephany Tabet Sallee Ann Ruibal
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DIY Jackets Self-improvement never hurt anyone.
Jackpot! Ever had a really good dream during a disco nap?
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Backyard Boy!!! It’s always Throwback Thursday when you set your phone to think it’s always thursday.
Museums & Women The Columbus Museum of Art in a new light or two.
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Coatography If you’re going to class or to space it doesn’t hurt to plan your route in advance and dress warmly enough.
Art Inspiration: Remembrance of Things Past
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History Lesson Emphasized shoulders
I Couldn’t Wait Forever, Bob Aaryn Lang’s afternoon at the Ohio History Center’s Lustron Home.
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Re-Create A Look Breakfast Foods!
Under Surveillance People in your life may come and go, but video evidence is forever.
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Clothes Hacking at the Office When you finally throw your computer out the window, go get the pieces and make jewelry!
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article Chrislyn Cox illustration Christine Lee
DIY JACKETS Grab an old jacket that you’re getting bored of, head to your nearest craft store, and get ready to stand out on campus!
You’ll be seeing a lot of intricate lace, stud and crystal embellishments, plaids, florals, metallics, as well as fur and sheer accents on jackets this fall. Many fabrics including lace, plaid, faux fur, or floral prints can be cut and glued or sewn to your jacket using fabric glue from your local craft store! You can cut out pieces of fabric to highlight your jacket’s pockets, collar, cuffs, shoulder area, or in any way to make the jacket your own.
If you don’t want to mess with glue and extra fabric, but are looking for an added pop of color, you can purchase a bottle of fabric or acrylic paint in a vibrant metallic or jewel-tone to accentuate these same features on (pockets, collar, cuffs, shoulders). Depending on how steady your hand is and how artistic you are, this can get incredibly detailed. If that’s not the case, try something simple but effective such as color blocking or adding the paint using a splattering method, even a few well-thought-out stripes or polka dots could drastically update your piece.
Another approach you can take toward updating your fall jacket, without altering the color, is the route of embellishments. Whether you choose studs, crystals, patches, pins, brooches, or clips, most embellishments are easy to apply with a bit of glue or a simple clip.
If you’re looking to really stand out, try a complete color change. Channel your inner tie-dyer and bleach your old jacket. From there, once your blank canvas has been prepped, you can dye it following the instructions on the dye packet or tie-dye kit. Instead of tye-dying, you can also choose a single color to dye your piece such as a rich red, classic black or dark maroon for a fall feel. Giving your jacket a brand new look is a great way to usher in the new season and new semester on campus.
Finally, celebrate the last few months of warm weather before cold weather arrives by cutting your jacket to create an entirely different style. Cut the sleeves at the shoulder seam to make a vest and layer it with a longsleeved top, experiment with cutting the bottom of the jacket for a cropped look, or, depending on the material of your jacket, cut slits in the fabric for a frayed, vintage effect. When it comes to DIY fashion, a simple alteration or two can update your style and set you apart from everyone on campus! There are many options to choose from, so don’t be scared to make it your own!
Photography Britney Van Deusen
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Backyard Boy!!! Autumn 2014
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Marcos Scans from wearsUrutora jacket Improved Living Activity Book all[this scans page] from Ultraman Japanese Activity Book (next page) Marcos wears shirt Cruel Girl, pants Comme des Garรงons Homme Plus, hat Highland
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Photography Michelle Uzomba
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Asia wears shirt and pants Jacquar Jean Jacques, coat Smartypants Vintage. Tiana wears sweater Smartypants Vintage.
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[right] Jay wears coat Smartypants Vintage, shirt Comme des Garรงons Homme Plus, backpack Hensch Man and sweatpants Milk Bar [left] Asia wears dress Milk Bar, coat Smartypants Vintage. Jay wears poncho Smartypants Vintage. Tiana wears coat Smartypants Vintage
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Cycles and recycles should happen until someone breaks the rules. And that person becomes part of history. Franca Sozzani, Vogue
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EMPHASIZED SHOULDERS Article Sami Kasserer
Year after year, we sit back and watch designers recycle and modernize former trends. Last season, we watched peplum, highrise bottoms, and chunky necklaces resurface (just to name a few). For decades, we’ve seen fashion trends rise up from the streets and sprinkle down from couture runways. In the past, Coco Chanel revolutionized fashion by creating the Little Black Dress and hippies popularized blue jeans, a seemingly perpetual worldwide phenomenon. As stated by Franca Sozzani of Vogue, “Cycles and recycles should happen until someone breaks the rules. And that person becomes part of history.” Fashion Cycles are spun and turned upside-down once every season to celebrate the wearable art we love so much. During fashion week, anyone can kickstart a fashion movement just by strolling along the streets of New York. Opportunities are endless. The fabulous stand hand in hand with unknown potential, creating an unparalleled fashion event. This season, the spotlight shone the brightest on tops with emphasized shoulders. This modern rendition of shoulder pads can be traced back to both masculine influences on women’s style that became prevalent in the 20s, and European-influenced puffy sleeves dating back to the 1800s. European fashion throughout the 1800s was known for an emphasis on wide shoulders, tiny waists, and hoop skirts. Corsets sucked in women’s tummies and the combination of puffy sleeves with large bottoms only further highlighted a women’s “curvy” figure. The large shoulders were not the emphasis of the look, but they were a part of what would later become a nation-wide phenomenon— shoulder pads.
Another precursor to this trend began with masculine inspired women’s wear in the 1920’s. Back then, the flapper dress was a shocking movement. Women were turning their backs on corsets and hoopskirts in favor of what had previously been considered “manlier” attire. The low waist, created a more androgynous silhouette, and acted as one of the first steps into a continual give and take of femininity and masculinity within fashion trends to come. Though the build-up to this trend throughout history is apparent, wide, padded shoulders did not popularize until the Dynasty era in the 1980s. “Dynasty,” a popular television show, showcased wideset, masculine shoulders on some of the most fabulous and fierce women in media. The trend skyrocketed for about a decade 00 before dropping off drastically. For the past few decades, shoulder pads have become a taboo in women’s fashion. However, top designer houses have since then revamped the look to create something only to be seen as modern genius. Some noted design houses that have jumped on this popularizing look are: Balenciaga, Isabel Marant, Celine, Balmain. This trend is only one of many examples of designers looking to the past in order to create art for the present and future. If you are ever curious on which trends your favorite designers will showcase next fashion week, look to the past. Fashion is all about creating ways to recycle history with a modern twist. Today: wide shoulders. Tomorrow: who knows. photo credit [clockwise starting at top left] Christophe Lemaire, Chalayan, Proenza Schouler, Carven, Chanel, Alexander Wang, Louis Vuitton
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Photography Michelle Uzomba
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“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” - The Guerrilla Girls. Audra wears shirt Il Moda by Lubna, dress and bag Smartypants Vintage, belt Jean Paul Gaultier, work gloves stylist’s own.
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Museums & Women photography Danielle Grace & Josh Orack video David Goodwin
Click here to watch the video!
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(previous) Andrew wears dress and pants Smartypants Vintage. (left) Ayonna wears dress Royal Factory, skirt Butte Knit, pin Bless, earrings Tree of Life. (right) Jada wears dress Royal Factory, jacket Rick Owens, bag stylist’s own.
(previous) Linda wears jacket Jacquar Jean Jacques, dress Smartypants Vintage, Victorian Mourning Hair Necklace. (left) Audra wears dress Il Moda by Lubna, jacket Smartypants Vintage, gloves stylist’s own. (right) Linda wears sweatshirt Dirty Laser, shirt, skirt, and bag Smartypants Vintage.
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(previous) Ayonna wears skirt House of Babowski, crop top Dirty Laser, jacket and pin stylist’s own. (right) Andrew wears vest Jacquar Jean Jacques, turtleneck Smartypants Vintage
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(on cover) Ayonne wears suit Royal Factory, shirt Bernhard Willhelm
“Less than 4% of the artist in the modern art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female.” Guerrilla Girls,
“Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met. Museum?”
Art Inspiration: Remembrance of Things Past
article Gary Lawrence
Marcel Proust, one of the greatest French novelists of the 20th century, is, when brought up in conversation, most commonly associated with the delicacy and vulnerability described in Remembrance of Things Past, his monumental, semi-autobiographic novel, and arguably, one of the greatest works of early 20th century fiction. His work was so influential that it began trends almost a century ago that are still alive today. He wrote of fathers as immense figures in white nightshirts, crowned with pink and violet scarves of Indian cashmere; servants were attired in woolen suits striped with white and purple; and maids perspired under hats whose stiff and dazzling frills seemed to be made of porcelain. The portrait of Esther, the Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus, on the tapestry had colors he described as melting into one another—”The tint of red on her lips strayed beyond the outline, and the yellow on her dress was spread with such unctuous plumpness as to acquire a sense of solidity.” These portraits of figures were vivid, though not excessively garnished. Another expression of gorgeousness regarded by Proust was filth—beauty behind a translucent membrane was more appealing. For example, his uncle’s beautiful, hollowly rooted yet unexpectedly commonplace wife disillusioned him. Proust barely knew her; he could not even see her countenance clearly. Her dressy silhouette seemed to indicate her manners, but its asymmetrical traits intrigued him. It was pink silk and she wore a great necklace of pearls around her neck. Untold scandals might be beneath her panoply, but Proust would never figure that out— All he could see was her coquettish appearance under the veil, and that was seductive enough. Every person, a peasant, a relative, or an obscure artist, was stylized in Proust’s eyes. He was one of the first writers to mention fashion designers by name, and often described outfits and accessories in great detail. As a sentimentalist, each figure was portrayed with a special gloomy solitude. When this state of mind interplays with contemporary life, it creates a sense of familiarity and timelessness embodied in all style details, externally and mentally, of Proust’s work. 53
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1950s: Building the American Dream is at the Ohio History Center. The exhibit is free with Ohio History Center museum admission, which is $10/adult, $9/senior, $5/age 6-12 and Free/age 5 and under. Ohio History Connection members (www.ohiohistory.org/membership) enjoy free admission to the Ohio History Center museum and 1950s: Building the American Dream. Museum hours are WednesdaySaturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday Noon-5 p.m. For more information call 800.686.6124 or visit www.ohiohistory.org.
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Breakfast Recreate A Look
photography Mason Miller article Alexander Singer
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Sometimes you have to wake up uncomfortably early for something you would much rather sleep through. Two things you can do to improve your outlook on that day: a good, filling, breakfast and clothes that look so good on you that they might just give you the gumption to get to your eight am class on time. Here we will tell you how you can be as nitpicky as chef’s when he or she considers what ingredients to put into a beloved entree when you are picking which clothes to wear for the day.
Croissant How could you not feel inspired to involve a little elegance after eating a croissant that a baker spent hours tediously layering over and over again? Delicately layer yourself however you please. It’s not just your top half—you can play around with leggings, tights, or sweatpants underneath some sporty shorts or a skirt.
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Caprese Salad A Caprese salad is just tomato, basil, and fresh mozzarella cheese but combined they make up the Italian flag. Think of a way to create a theme with your outfit by combining clothing and accessories to represent something bigger than each individual part. Chances are you have already done this for a holiday celebration, wearing brown and orange for thanksgiving, but I suggest something different like wrapping yourself in a tan trench coat like a nice crepe.
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Fried Egg A fried egg sunny side up is the quintessential breakfast food. Like an egg is a staple in breakfast food, you have beloved articles of clothing- but you don’t want your eggs the same way all the time. The trick to keeping your favorites exciting is to try them in a new way—scramble them, poach them, throw your favorite tank top over a turtleneck.
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It’s important for people to know just where you stand in our society. For those fortunate enough to have access, beautiful neck-pieces can demonstrate your worth to others in society. You are beautiful and valuable, and you can let the world know.
Fight scence Have an old piece of equipment that no longer functions in a way deemed adequate? There’s nothing wrong with a little creativity. Work hard to show that even if it has become obsolete, it is still able to serve some purpose.
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Never hang up Adequacy is not enough. In order to uncover your full potential, sometimes extra steps are in order. Hacking your clothes is a simple action that is becoming increasingly popular in today’s office environments.
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Augment yourself Today, a man needs to be much more than just a man. Give yourself an edge with a full readout watch. Having all of your personal information, biometrics, and necessary data in one place will make it much easier for both us and you to thrive.
Elegance is not something you need to lose, it just needs to be translated and modernized Keeping your information at your fingertips gives you a competitive edge in business and beauty.
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Allie wears pants Royal Factory, shirt, VOA Nikitaa wears leggings Royal Factory,white velco shirt Jean Paul Gaultier, outer shirt Band of Outsiders
PHOTOGRAPHY JOSH ORACK AND MICHAEL MIELKE
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Sage Lewis, Split Frame Elevation, laser toner enlargement prints on wall, 2014. Part of the Exhibition, The Mirage and the Rainbow: 2014 Department of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition
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Nikitaa wears peplum skirt Royal Factory + il Moda by Lubna Designs, Inc., knitted&knotted cream eyelet sweater Royal Factory
David Knox, Between Two, sheet of clear acrylic, steel cables, oil from the hands, breath, 2014 Exhale Series 1-4, archival inkjet prints, 2014 Part of the Exhibition, The Mirage and the Rainbow: 2014 Department of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition