A fashion show for the ages

Emmeline Fucik of Appleton prepares a poodle skirt she will model Sunday as vintage fashions from the 1940s through the '80s are on parade and for sale at a fundraiser for the Community Clothes Closet at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton. / Ron Page/The Post-Crescent

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J.E. Espino

APPLETON  It was a case of serious déjà vu and chuckles for many of the models waiting to flounce down the catwalk at Sunday's Vintage Fashion Show.
"The mini skirts, I definitely do remember that," said Mary Elson, remembering the wild patterns and bright colors she wore in the 1970s as a young woman.
Representing that decade for the event, she wore a long-sleeved, turquoise cocktail dress with silver embroidery and matching silver pumps and observed, "My mother might have worn it."

Who is Made in Pakistan for anyway?

By Kiran Haroon
Karachi

As the year 2011 started one found hope in looking for something new and moving into a better phase with bigger promises. But if you are in any way connected to the fashion industry your thoughts immediately went to the imminent fashion weeks. Now with the year reaching its half point we’ve already had a fashion and bridal weeks.

A fashion designer is a person that takes a theme and weaves it into clothes for a person that identifies themselves with that designer. The fashion week has brought about a newer understanding of the business of fashion but at the cost of creativity in fashion.

When a milieu of clothes bombards the ramp in an assembly line, the spark that draws one to seek creativity in fashion is extinguished. Yet again we as a nation have taken it upon ourselves to appease the foreigners that can further our business with their dollar and pound investments. Yet again we fail to realize that the consumer that will wear the shalwar and the kameez will always be in Pakistan. A designer may be technically sound to design a ball gown, dress or trousers for women but does it mean that they can understand its functions in a woman’s life?

'Fashion models' eat cotton balls to keep weight reduce

Talking about the gloomy side of glittering fashion industry, supermodel Amy Lemons revealed that when she was a model, her agent asked her to eat one rice cake a day. The Vogue cover model was 17 years old when her agent told her to do so to keep her weight down. "And if that didn't work (eat) only half a rice cake," the New York Daily News quoted Lemons as saying in a segment of a new miniseries on the modelling industry for 'The Cut'. It is based on topics covered in the documentary expose 'Picture Me: A Model's Diary' by filmmakers Sra Ziff and Ole Schell. The young directors interviewed several young models for their three-part series and the final segment was particularly jarring. Lemons said that she had seen girls dipping cotton balls in juice and eating them as a way to keep their weight down. "The level of the money you are making, it's like you can't say no," she said underlying the reason. "I think one of the reasons the film is so compelling is because we are showing footage that we never thought anyone else would ever see. It was only over time that we realized we had some really unique footage of a world that is so kept under wraps," concluded model turned director Ziff, who has walked in shows for Ralph ­Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Marc Jacobs. (ANI) SEARCH