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Hairstyles like “white or Asian people with dreadlocks or box braids, at a time when Black people wearing those styles will have them kicked out of school or fired from their jobs. Some academics talk about this as loving Black culture, but not Black people,” Rooks said.
Students celebrated Pan-African culture in 15th Annual Afrik! Fashion Show on Saturday night. The show featured designs ranging from high professional to streetwear and dance, music and poetry performances.
Placing the fashion show at the end of Black History Month serves as a display of solidarity and a way for people to preserve their individual cultures after a long history of oppression through art.
Streetwear was created as the fashion of people who weren’t shopping at Dior or Louis Vuitton. Now Dior is collaborating with Shawn Stussy and making Jordan 1’s? It all feels fake.
A contentious Faculty Senate meeting on Wednesday showed the depth of faculty disapproval for the proposed rebranding of the College of Human Ecology as the College of Public Policy.
Leaving the exhibit hallway, I was almost disappointed by how bland the gift shop was.
Cornell Fashion Collective’s annual fashion show is the club’s signature event, celebrating fashion, creativity and design. But behind the scenes, the fashion show represents the culmination of months of labor, from initial planning over the summer to last-minute finishes this week.
Vintage jeans, handmade jewelry and soaps were just a small sampling of the wares on sale yesterday at Spring Cleaning, Cornell Thrift’s pop-up store in Willard Straight Hall.
Besides being a student, some Cornellians also model on the side for the Cornell Store and the Cornell Fashion Collective.
The 2019 Ivy Native Conference, which will involve academics, fashion designers and indigenous students across the Ivy League, will take place at Cornell from March 22-24.