Category: fashion
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Enter the Fashion Show. Cash Prizes!
Calling all student designers and stylists! Help us celebrate ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ a book credited with creating the hard-boiled detective archetype and its female counterpart, the femme fatale. Win cash prizes by designing or styling a look to walk the runway during the Femme Fatale/Film Noir Fashion Show on April 27th. We are seeking looks…
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How to Pronounce Fashion Designer Names
Stumped about how to pronounce Prabal Gurung or Thankoon? Unsure about how to say Elie Saab or Marchesa? Is the last n silent in Lanvin and Balmain (hint, yes it is!)? With awards season underway and fashion weeks happening all over the world, make sure you sound like a pro when you mention Lupita Nyong’o…
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Haute & Cool: On Shirley’s Radar
On my radar for summer:es·pa·drille/ˈespəˌdril/ “Espadrilles are normally casual flat, but sometimes high heeled shoes originating from the Pyrenees. They usually have a canvas or cotton fabric upper and a flexible sole made of rope or rubber material molded to look like rope. The jute rope sole is the defining characteristic of an espadrille; the…
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Berg Fashion Library Database – New!
The Library has added Berg Fashion Library to our list of databases available to Columbia College Chicago students. You can scroll through the slideshow of designers… …explore fashion and textile by Place… …or by Time… …and Search the image collection … …and Browse by topic… … all through the Berg Fashion Library!