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Volume A 5
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, Issue 4
ARROW
Renton High School 400 South 2nd Street Renton, WA 98057
Hangin’ with the Innovators
They might be more charismatic than you—at least when it comes to clothes and style. For bright colors and bold patterns, branded bags and thrift-shop tags, retail swag and back alley hook ups, the ten fashion enthusiasts inside stand out as people who value trend-setting as part of their understanding of themselves. For good and bad, a recent ARROW survey shows you’re probably not like them, wearing your regular jeans, snapback from Lids and Uggs boots. On the day we surveyed the school, 12 percent of senior boys wore a plain tee-shirt or long sleeve shirt. For real, dude? Do you seriously think the girl you’re eyeing is going to notice you when you belong to the 12 percent? On a scale of one to ten, how original are you? Do you buy your clothes at the
mall? You’re probably not as original as you think. You might be original within certain confines—carrying that special colored iPod—but aren’t you listening to an iPod in the hallway like everyone else? Don’t get offended. We like your style (especially the way your cuffs sit outside your shoes), but this is about the beautiful innovators who rethink the notion of what a shoe should be to begin with. So here they are: the folks we expect to be the next Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj,
or Kanye West-type cool kids. If we were naked, if all walls were bare, if nature surrounded us in solid brick blocks and all those blocks were gray, and clothes were just invented—we would follow them. How we chose winners: we sent “cool hunters” into the halls to search and scavenge for originality, compiled the images into a slideshow of over one hundred nominees, and narrowed the list to thirteen, eventually whittling it to ten. Check out and like our Facebook
page for additional original content about each one of the innovators you’ll see on the inside poster—stories about their styles and personalities. For objections or compliments, email rhsarrow@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you.
Vanessa Abenojar, Editor-in-Chief