Monday, February 20, 2023
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The Oklahoma State College Scholar Arts Alliance held its first thrift store vogue
present that includes student-curated designs Feb. 16. on the Scholar Union theater runway.
The Scholar Arts Alliance is a campus group that helps college students in all artwork
disciplines to precise themselves creatively and improve the artwork illustration at
OSU. The present was open to all college students no matter main. Entry was free to the
viewers, and alliance members offered snacks and drinks on the door.
Every designer had a selected theme, spanning “Gilmore Women” and glitter, to post-apocalyptic
vogue. The alliance gave designers $100 upon entry and three weeks to curate their
appears. The present required that designers domestically sourced all items from thrift shops
in Stillwater, reminiscent of Elite Repeat, Thrifty Butterfly Boutique and Karman Korner
Resale Store.
Designers paired runway types with a rigorously chosen playlist of songs to boost
the temper of the model. A notable assortment got here from junior Sebastian Arias. Arias’
appears have been recent, springy and barely harking back to workwear. He had a transparent theme
and appears that complemented one another.
“My most important focus with this assortment was simply to have enjoyable with it and never take it too
severely and have an artwork focus,” Arias stated. “It’s extra of an artwork present to me than
a vogue present. I simply needed to have enjoyable with it and categorical my creativity.”
One other set of distinctive appears sprouted from designer Owe Morris, a freshman theatre
main, who took her inspiration from historic vogue and costume design. Morris
went past the thrift store necessities and dug a bit of into her trash. She reused
torn-up curtains to create her rosettes — a cloth rose factor harking back to the
seventeenth century — on a number of shirts.
“I take plenty of inspiration from historic clothes,” Morris stated. “I prefer to mash
every thing collectively and create a post-apocalyptic look recognized for mixing issues collectively.
I put an enormous emphasis on reusing every thing.”
President Sierra Do at present runs the Scholar Artwork Alliance, and hosts varied occasions
every semester, together with the artwork pageant, DIY Wednesdays, the orange wall artwork competitors,
cease movement movie festivals and plenty of others.
For extra info, go to https://lcl.okstate.edu/alliedarts/ or contact Kayla Loper at [email protected].
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Haley Simpson | [email protected]
