BSU Fashion Show: A gallery by Drew Paluch
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‘Black Gala’ excellence: BSU fashion show returns + photo gallery
Reading Time: 5 minutesALANA WINGATE Staff Writer With fresh lineups, bolder themes, cultural expression and heritage, the yearly fashion show organized by Fredonia’s Black Student Union (BSU) made its memorable return. This year’s fashion show titled, “Black Gala,” was held on March 25 in the Steele Hall Fieldhouse at 6 p.m. The focus......
Fast Forward: Rowan Brown displays the art of non-conformity
Reading Time: 4 minutesDAKOTA RICHTER Special to The Leader With art being such a wide form of creativity, there are many ways someone can express themselves. Fredonia freshman Rowan Brown, an art history major, has expressed her creativity in many different ways, but it took her a while to find out what her......
NYC Native Henry Wang talks street-style fashion
Reading Time: 4 minutesDAKOTA RICHTER Community Engagement Coordinator WILL KARR Life & Arts Editor Fredonia student Henry Wang grew up shopping at Macy’s with his mother. His mom would pick out outfits for him, cultivating his passion for fashion in the process. “My mom has always been my main and biggest supporter,” Wang......
Kelly Nyguen embraces Vietnamese heritage through fashion
Reading Time: 4 minutesDAKOTA RICHTER Special to The Leader WILL KARR Life & Arts Editor Creativity and one’s ability to express themselves is something that every little kid is normally allowed to do. However, growing up, SUNY Fredonia junior animation student Kelly Nyguen felt like she had to repress her cultural heritage. “I......
Biology Student Dakota Garcia struts across gender boundaries and New York Fashion Week runway
Reading Time: 5 minutesWILL KARR Life & Arts Editor As a young child, Fredonia student Dakota Garcia would parade around his house in his dad’s work boots and overalls, and his mom’s high heels and dresses. His parents provided him and his siblings with the liberty and agency to openly express themselves, breaking......
Meet Yuwan Viros: Fashion trendsetter by day, iconic drag queen by night
Reading Time: 5 minutesALYSSA BUMP Editor in Chief SUNY Fredonia is quite a small campus. With only 3,000 or so students on campus, some are destined to stand out among the rest. One of those students is Yuwan Viros, a senior public relations and theatre arts major, with a concentration in costume design.......
Black Student Union Fashion Show review + gallery
Reading Time: 3 minutesLYDIA TURCIOS Art Director Multicultural weekend at SUNY Fredonia is one of the hot button topics for the year. It’s one of the few times ethnic students can embrace and share their culture with the greater body of students, and it acts as an attractive pull for incoming students here......
Bringing vibrance to SUNY Fredonia: BSU Fashion Show preview
Reading Time: 4 minutesLYDIA TURCIOS Art Director There’s clothes flying, accessories everywhere, body oil being passed around and the distant sound of speakers punching with cheering as the backdrop. The air is saturated with excitement and trepidation punctuated by the step of heels and sneakers on stage — we’re looking at a peek......
Freedom of fashion in Fredonia
Reading Time: 3 minutesALYSSA BUMP Editor in Chief One of my favorite parts of attending a liberal arts school is walking around campus and getting a sense of how unique every individual is through their clothing choices. Clothing is a form of self-expression. You can base your style off a specific aesthetic or......