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February 10, 2012

Students do the catwalk

BY MICHELLE MILLER

STAFF WRITER

Cooperstown Central School students were the stars of the show Friday night as they took to the runway.

This marked the fifth year of the student-run fashion show, and there were a few added bonuses. Before the lights were turned off in the Sterling Auditorium at the Cooperstown Middle/High School, a behind-thescenes video about each designer was featured. Skinny Guys with Glasses also provided live entertainment during intermission.

Then the music came on as models showed off the designs of nine designers – some as young as seventh-graders.

For example, seventh-graders Lindsay Brown and Rachael Carpenter worked together to create a line in shades of blue. Brown is the sister of CCS graduate Emily Brown, who helped direct the show last year. The youngsters said they were excited to be included.

According to organizers, the fashion show began as a high school event, but keeps on evolving. This year’s co-director Abby Wilcox, a junior, began participating in the show as the youngest designer when she was an eighth-grader.

Second-time designer Sean Miller has been involved in some way since the beginning because her sister was  one of the founders and she molded some of her designs, said Wilcox.Miller, an eight-grader, said she began thinking about what she would make for the show as soon as last year’s event was over. She had five designs featured in this year’s show.

“I got my inspiration from nature,” she said. “I used a lot of floral patterns … I like how nature flows, so I incorporated that into my designs.”

According to Miller, she sews all her designs herself and it depends on “simplicity” on how long a particular item takes her to create. The shortest amount of time spent on one item was four hours, and the longest was days, said Miller.

Designer Katherine Reisen hand sewed all of her outfits, which were inspired by Japanese fashion. This was her first year designing and she said she is inspired by Project Runway finalist Christian Siriano.

Haley Hohenesee and Emma Nering have been working together as designers for two years. They had a complex theme in which each dress flowed into the next, Wilcox said.

Sara Breiten, who codirected and served as the emcee of the show, also learned to sew so she could feature her own line. She said Wilcox mentored her through the entire process, from going to pick out fabrics to teaching her to thread a needle. Her designs took on a rainbow theme with black accents.

According to Wilcox, Breiten will take over the show in two years. However, she said she will have to find another co-director for next year because Breiten is planning on participating in the Rotary Exchange program. Miller is expected to take the reins once Breiten graduates, Wilcox said.

Keira Bryant wanted to design a line last year, but could not fit it into her busy schedule. She made it work this year and said juggling activities has been hard because being a designer takes up a lot of time.

Wilcox said her dream is to go to the Fashion Institute of Technology in the city. “I have always wanted to be a fashion designer,” she said. “I have my own business and do altercations. My grandma was a dress maker at one point.”

This is her fourth year participating in the fashion show and her second directing it. She said her designs are generally random and do not follow a theme, but she decided to make them  cohesive and use differentcolors of purple this year.

“I was inspired by my favorite designer Alexander McQueen,” she said. “I wanted to show that my skills have improved over the years.”

Wilcox said she was pleased with the turnout for the show. She said there were close to 285 people in attendance and has been hearing nothing but positive feedback.

“It is good to hear because putting on a show is stressful and hard,” Wilcox said. “We had 20 check lists to keep us organized. Everything seemed to fall into place last minute.”

Each year, Wilcox said, the show evolves and the goal is to keep that tradition alive.

“We try to make it as close to an actual runway as possible,” Wilcox said. “We try to make it original and more exciting each year.”

The event has always been student-run, but this year the group has become an official club at the school. Wilcox said she would be devastated if the tradition were to die.

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