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judgement day – parsons thesis review

15 August 2010
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boy oh boy. add a headache to a shaky voice plus quivering knees and a blank mind, and what you get is the bunch of us retarded, scared shitless people. people who were sweating buckets while waiting in line at the gates of heaven for the angels to tell us if we get through, or [...]

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LVMH on governors island

10 July 2010
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a little while ago, the finale to the LVMH x parsons project: the art of craftsmanship revisited, was held on governors island. such a long period of time had gone by since the fashion show that was held at milk studios during new york fashion week. so towards the end of may, without anything much [...]

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LVMH x Parsons = my first foray as a designer into new york fashion week!

26 February 2010
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oh hello hello hello, remember me? i must have fallen off your blog radar a super long time ago with my lack of consistent postings. but i really have good reason! for the last few months, i have been completely absorbed – mind, body and soul – into this project that has really been the [...]

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thesis collection: sketching, fabric choices, and final edits

23 October 2009
thesis collection

after all that thinking and narrowing down of the direction and inspirations i wanted to take with my thesis collection and also my market and customer, my next step was the most painful one. doing sketches and then editing them. design croquis well, sketches, or croquis as we call them, aren’t so bad. croquis are [...]

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thesis collection: my market and thesis statement

22 October 2009
style muse: anna piaggi

my next step was to think about my customer market, and also write my thesis statement. determining and narrowing down on a market is really important – knowing who my customer is will determine everything – what they are looking for when shopping for clothing, how much they are willing to spend, if they are [...]

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thesis collection: how i began my design process

21 October 2009
i am me

the beginning of a design process is always tricky, and it gets even trickier when this particular collection is going to define one’s entire fashion education. i graduated in 2007 from the bunka fashion college in tokyo, japan, and transferred here to parsons in new york, where i will finally be done with my studies [...]

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