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Can Columbus become a Midwestern fashion capital?
Thursday, October 2, 2008
By Brittany Kress
Take a look at the street corners, the sidewalks, the grocery stores. It’s a sea of people in sweatshirts and sneakers, and that casual, Midwest lifestyle is stifling Columbus designers’ best intentions.
Well, so are the makeshift studios they’re working from in bedrooms and living rooms across the city.
But it’s not just quality craftsmanship, training and education, sweatshop-style long nights and promotional efforts that’ll put the city’s designers on the map. Simply put, if Columbus wants to become a fashion capital – and plenty are pushing for it – we’re going to have to start looking more like New York. Or at least shopping a little more local, and with a little more style. Because designers can’t get respect coming from a city of sweatpants.
Alive’s Featured Fashion Designers:
- Columbus Style: Akira Burgess
- Columbus Style: Working from home
- Columbus Style: Brad Osting and Justin Hemm
- Alive & Unedited: Project Runway’s Terri Stevens
- Columbus Style: Shannon Mingus
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More or less.
To continue the Saks/Nordies tangent, the fact that they’ll order things from their extended inventory isn’t much of a selling point given that it does nothing to bolster the brick-and-mortar sadness of their Columbus locations and buying clothing sight unseen (and, uh, touch unfelt) is a fool’s errand.
I cannot begin to expound in any brief way on the molten anger that watching someone be measured for tailored clothing at either of these places can fill you up with. You’ve got all these well-meaning guys who apparently have the coin to drop on $$$$ OTR//RTW/pret-a-porter/whatever clothing that may need to be altered a bit, and you’ve got this gaggle of dunces around him telling him the sleeves of his suit jacket should be halfway down his hands and that his trousers should have like 2″ of break I mean omg wtf.
I never understood the theory of pleats. To make your ass look bigger? I hear they’re coming in again? If so, I will be happy to be out.
Did the Dockers make fun of your scarf?
Did the Dockers make fun of your scarf?
Nah, just some stubby hick.
They are to facilitate comfort in motion and to flatter larger men. They have been “in” in fashiony circles for about 2-3 years now, though that has not had any real effect in terms of “shit you see people wearing on the street.” Tastefully done pleats can look fine for certain body types in certain situations, but it’s one of those “If you have to ask…” type things.
They are to facilitate comfort in motion and to flatter larger men. They have been “in” in fashiony circles for about 2-3 years now, though that has not had any real effect in terms of “shit you see people wearing on the street.” Tastefully done pleats can look fine for certain body types in certain situations, but it’s one of those “If you have to ask…” type things.
They make me look I have a floppy sag-ass. (which I don’t actually have, for the record.) I hate them with passion.
I actually like the, as they make me look like I have an ass at all :lol:
Pleats help to enhance your Pants-Tent when you sit down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXm435CG-Y
LOL – comfort in motion.
Sitting down with pleated pants is just like getting a big air bubble stuck in your swimming trunks. But I guess they’re good for the assless.
LOL – comfort in motion.
I mean yeah, they’re not usually flattering on those who are prone to motion, but you know…
Devil’s advocacy: here’s a hardass from the continent wearing pleats the way you’re supposed to:
This is just heavily outweighed (lol amirite) by this sort of thing:
I would like to not just talk about doing something, I want to actually do something. As of right now I don’t have much on my plate so after reading through this entire discussion I feel we can either put up or shut up.
I propose that we advance on the idea to start a Co op here in columbus for local designers and boutiques. The first step is to get everyone talking collaborating and just knowing others in the industry.
Long term we can deal with getting a district or area set aside for fashion but we have to organize ourselves first. e-mail me at lancery@yahoo.com
Here we got with some more of this “we” shit.
…wait, umm…
as an aside, if you do make handmade clothes, you can contact wholly craft about selling them there. the owner’s name is olivia 614-447-3445 and she is awesome.
i love wholly craft and it has helped me have my own shop, so give that a whirl!
I propose that we advance on the idea to start a Co op here in columbus for local designers and boutiques. The first step is to get everyone talking collaborating and just knowing others in the industry.
Long term we can deal with getting a district or area set aside for fashion but we have to organize ourselves first. e-mail me at lancery@yahoo.com
While I think this is a great idea, I’m just always hesitant about these because of the history involved.
http://www.columbusunderground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7475&highlight=columbus+fashion+week
I think if it is done tastefully and with the right intentions then there is something there.
Like you said Core that fashion shows are more to get the designer’s name out there and for potential buyer’s to see product/concept before they commit. That is how I always viewed fashion shows. I agree that all these bar shows with clothes from retail stores just isn’t worth my time unless they state it how it is “Come see our show of the new Fall line”. But then you might as well do a trunk show with live models around the store.
I really appreciated the last show at Liquid with AmyD, luckycat13(?) and others (i’m sorry I fail to remember the roll call) It was all made in columbus by columbus natives and original even if it was thrift re-invented shirts and such. It wasn’t my cup of tea in terms of Style but I really Applaud them for the time effort and what they did. Yes it was a bar but there are not a lot places that I can think of to do a runway plus when you are small/independent the cost is incredibly hard to do alone without some sort of additional sponsorship.
I would love to do my own show but the cash just isn’t there for me. I find myself extremely limited that I can only showcase 4 of my looks in the upcoming Highball. Do I want to go for Broke and make it all out fabulous/couture or do I want to show my variety in doing some Menswear and toned down pieces with more reasonable price points?
I don’t do fashion shows in bars.
I am glad you brought that up. No other city does fashion shows in bars either. This trend of current season/second hand fashions shows, in bars, as entertainment needs to end.
I don’t do fashion shows in bars.
I am glad you brought that up. No other city does fashion shows in bars either. This trend of current season/second hand fashions shows, in bars, as entertainment needs to end.
You’re kidding about the “no other city does fashion shows in bars” right?
If you said “no other city does mainstream fashion shows in bars”, that I might agree with you on.
Independent designers exempt of course.