I’m in my last term at John Casablancas and my class and I
have to put together a final fashion show. We have to put everything together
from start to finish; the theme, staging, styling and fundraising is all done
by us. Dystopia is our theme and if you don’t know what that is it’s “an imagined
place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad” The inspiration came
primarily from a toxic wasteland and from that we turned it into a post
apocalyptic abandoned town scenario so it’s going to be super dark and fun.
In class we were all assigned jobs and one of mine was to
put together and style the publicity photo shoot with my 2 very talented
classmates Jerome Insorio and Douglas Alfaro-Ochoa, we all have similar taste
so it was amazingly easy breezy putting this shoot together. The hardest part
was finding a photographer and models, we spent days talking to various people
and we managed to get Pong Yananissorn a local Vancouver photographer who’s
style fit the mood of the shoot to a T and then also scored 2 in development
models from Wilhelmina.
Fashion wise we decided on street style grunge mixed with
“couture” grunge for the show and so I was in heaven doing the shoot seeing as
I’m #1 die hard Nirvana lover and 90s’ gal.
For the shoot we had a mixture of plaids, Unif, chokers, 40
Decibels and skyscraper platform boots, lots of layering and for make-up and
hair; that good wine colored lipstick and purposefully greasy looking hair.
I’m so excited the shoot turned out beautifully and really
embodies our shows theme. You all should come out on June 16th and
support the JCI students and also Covenant House, all net proceeds that are
raised from the show go to them; so it’s a great cause!
If you would like tickets you can contact me at savannahcochrane@hotmail.com or they will be $25 at the door 6pm at Performance Works on June 16th
