Lucia Idriss capstone

​Thought these past few months of determining what I would like to do for my senior capstone considering I had a lot of options. But I finally settled on one, my career as a fashion designer. It has been a really tough struggle getting to the point where I am now. In the beginning, getting started was very complex for me. Learning how to sew and also picking out which designs I’d like to start off with.I bought my first sewing machine in late august but did not begin to actually use it until december and I had issues with it as well where I had to stop sewing at home and even come in early to school to use the school's machine. My first Fashion show where i was a designer and not a model took place this year at Columbia University in New York city. I was scouted through social media to participate in their show and I was truly honored especially as a new designer, This was huge for me. I met a lot of great people and designers that attended the most prestigious of Fashion design schools, ( Parsons, The New School and Fashion Institute of Technology ) I winded up going to that show alone, with no one to accompany me and see my dreams come to life but it was still a great experience even though I had to bask in it by myself.


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  1. https://www.mimmyyeboah.com/about-mimmy-yeboah

  2. Website Title: myny

  3. Article Title: myny

  4. Date Accessed: February 03, 2017


Why is this useful? This is useful because this is a designer I idolize and someone who has the same envisions I have for my brand and Business

Why do you trust this source? Because this is something that she has created from the ground up and something that has been platformed across social media

What questions do you still have? How long ago did she start sewing.


2. https://astrumpeople.com/coco-chanel-biography/

  • She biography/

  • Website : People

  • Article Title:Coco Chanel Biography: The Woman Who Changed The World Of Fashion

  • Date Accessed : February 03, 2017


She  paved the way for all of the other designers that have now paved a way for me

I trust it because this is the same source I used for my final paper and it was accurate

How will she inspire my designs


3. http://www.vogue.com/article/marc-jacobs-versace-prada-vogues-25-best-90s-shows

  • Website Title: Vogue

  • Article Title: 25 Most Influential '90s Fashion Shows

  • Date Published : February 01, 2017

  • Date Accessed: February 03, 2017


This is useful to me in two ways, one, vougue is a magazine that I always wanted to write for when I newly introduced properply intot he fashion industry which also led me to begin blogging, http://artnstyles.weebly.com . But most importantly it taught me the ropes of the fashion industry and also brung me to my love, 90s Versace SS/ 94. One of my greatest inspiration for the clothing I create now.


4.  https://www.tumblr.com

When I first created my tumblr years ago. I just fell into a brand new world, fashion, art, and the passion that lies in between it. Personally I’ve always loved it and wanted to be a part of it, but in my way and not falling in with the other girls who  created the same looks over and over again, I wanted to stand out and in many ways I did which brought me to where I am now.


5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solange_Knowles

  • Website Title: Wikipedia

  • Article Title : Solange Knowles

  • Date Accessed: February 03, 2017




This is useful to me because Solange is a huge inspiration to me through music and also Fashion, her style is simple elegance, she doesn’t have to do much to stand out in the crowd and that is something I aspire to become and also what I love about her also her music is just so soul full that it kind of dresses you in a way. I trust this source because everything seems accurate and up to date.

How will she continue to grow as an artist and fashion icon.



6. URL https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/14/celebrating-relationship-between-fashion-and-music-lauren-laverne

  • Website Title: The Lauren Laverne column

  • Article Title: Celebrating the relationship between fashion and music | Lauren Laverne

  • Date Published : September 14, 2014

  • Date Accessed : February 03, 2017


“ Everything I learned about getting dressed, I learned from pop music. I grew up in the 80s, at the pinnacle of pop’s pomp and pageantry. It’s hard to imagine oneself back to those days, before “pop” became the pejorative term it is – shorthand for the interchangeably banal warbling that is a pretext for Saturday-night TV. In the 80s, pop was the main attraction – it was a genre so broad and vibrant, musically and aesthetically, a sparkling explosion of hooks and looks in the age of the music video, of unreality TV. Pop stars seemed to be from another planet and dressed to demonstrate as much. Madonna, Kate Bush” this useful for that quotes entire statement. I trust this because this is coming first hand from someone who lived through that generation and also was influence the same way I was.

Was other people inspired by music of the fashion industry.



7. http://diverseworldfashion.com/2014/09/04/the-relationship-between-culture-and-fashion/

  • Website Title: Diverse World Fashion DWF

  • Article Title : The Relationship Between Culture and Fashion

  • Date Accessed : February 03, 2017


This is useful to me because I incorporate my fashion with culture and I feel as though the culture of different ethnicities is what made the fashion industry what it is now. “ Fashion— undoubtedly— reflects culture. All major trends and styles of the past, in one way or another, came to be by way of cultural influence. Throughout history, this is particularly noticeable in the realm of women’s fashion. Only at the turn of the 20th century, when women were beginning to more strongly fight for equal rights, were women first seen wearing pants.” I trust this source because it backs up each fact and has resources. Has culture appropriation been depriving the fashion industry?


8. https://www.we-heart.com/2015/09/21/history-art-and-fashion/

  • Website Title: We Heart

  • Article Title: With art and fashion collaborating like never before, we look at some of history's most important crossovers...

  • Date Published: September 21, 2015

  • Date Accessed: February 06, 2017

Fashion is in love with art like never before. From clothing design to catwalk show art direction, major labels to boutique houses, the word of fashion is falling over itself to involve important names from a diverse range of the visual arts. It’s hardy surprising — after all what is fashion if not wearable art — and these collaborations between the disciplines are certainly mutually beneficial. Fashion, often unfairly judged as one of the more frivolous applied arts, gains serious cachet by association, while the artist reaches a wider, more populist audience.”

This is useful well because of that quote. Fashion is wearable art. I trust this source because I feel as though I can relate to what they are saying because it is true. NONE.




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