1Pa1NG; FASIIJON PREVIEW 2002

Find out what the hot spring trends are from one of Cabrini's own aspiring fashion designers

drawings by Gerrona Lewis

The drawings pictured were designed and created by Gerrona Lewis, a Cabrini art student, which displays her fashion visions, along with her artistic talents.

by Rachel Slaughter guest writer

Doctors preach that eight glasses of water are essential to healthy living. Fashion gurus argue they can live without water as long as Coach keeps pumping out handbags and shoes. Can man live on fashion alone? Magazine moguls must think so. There are more magazines in-America deal- ing with fashion than magazines on health and survival issues. Americans gorge themselves on topics like what to wear after Labor Day and how to update a drab lightweight cotton twills and denim. She says she is pleased with the looks and didn't try to predict the line that is called forecasting. wardrobe. Fashion is so important that a Ceno said, "I am not a slave to forecastsneak peak into spring fashions is planned a ing. It is too limiting. I know what is year ahead. trendy, but I don't get consumed with foreThis year's spring goodies were revealed casting. My Customers are not afraid to try in February. Onlookers in Milan and New something new."

York have already seen the latest creations Bronze Beauty Designs, Ceno's fashion from fashion icons like Gucci, Prada and label, caters to a diverse clientele. The Calvin Klein. The runways came alive with label, which will be available in her new color as models presented the latest in fash- store opening soon in Jamaica Queens, ion. The winning look: peasant outfits fea- New York, features three separate cateturing skirts with embroidery and elaborate gories, each with a different price range. embellishments. These are not the peasant The White, Pink and Black labels range skirts from the '80s. Hopefully no one will from reasonable prices like $50 to $1000. embarrass themselves by sneaking up to the Ceno said, "My White label, however, is attic and digging out their old, worn tributes higher end fashion for the older woman. It to Stevie NickSj 'Thoi((n·ap just won'~(lo -has,ea0let1211d stieae. My,~pensj,ve line is it. It is true that today\ ~t skiirts- a the Black~l. These clothes ar~ tailored throw back to the days when women could for the customer.'' spend little money 011fashion an4 made due A fashion enthusiast since age five, ,.o. -,i!i! ·-'-,-' >"-- ' with piecing fabric scraps together. • The Ceno is sure her clothing line will please irony idea behind the new peasant skirts is her following. that pieces of the new fabrics cost more Ceno sai~, "I know fashion." thall be average Jane ma.Icesin a week. Her knowledge-tmnes from the sourer,• 'I'bese ~s are. bip, now, happening and tht streets. Ceno says the runway fashioas ex.pensive. t)µt.,according to one fastiion that make it to the streets are the ''Qrganic designer, tnfs year's spring fasbkms prove fotm of fashihn?'' She ,enjoys how every "ffialinariydesignerr'h'?ive Cllt off their area puts its own spm 1 6n the same style. chains and refuse to be slaves to trends. Growing up with a seamstress mother, According Ro Speight, fashion enthusi- Ceno got her hands on hundreds of fabric, ast and writer, peasant skirts are not ,the sgrap6 and 't'atched he_rmom for tips on only retro/modem look excilipg buyers. how •t9 make designer clothes for her Another fashion element that to the Barbies. past, but points to the futute is ¢a Safaai Qe,onna Lewis, fashion designer, grew loQk. The Jane Goodalf2at-work lodk is up with the same passion. She can't actually fashionable. remember when fashion was not a part of Speight said, "There are so many differ- her life. Just barely out of Geranimals, ent elements to the Safari look. The colors Lewis was making tailored outfits for herare exciting, lots of greens, browns and dark self and her friends greens almost the look of a rainforest."

Bridget Ceno, fashion designer, says that the 2002 spring collection has a few surprises. There are elements in this year's line that no fashion correspondents could have predicted. Fashion designers have raised a few eyebrows with their out-of-the-box lines.

The new lines offer lots of color and whites. The runways will show lots of chiffon, lightweight fabrics and pastel colors like pink, greens, blue and yellow with crazy strips. Designers were inspired by • can translate her artistic passion into something that she enjoys to wear.

Lewis said, "My passion for art is just a need. It brings forth feelings that I knew I had, but I never wanted to confront or talk about. .I mean I can draw a picture and when I look back at it I know what was going on in my life at the time. My art is like a photo album or timeline."

Lewis said, "I started designing fashion when I was about 15-years-old. I always had an interest in drawing, but it was at this age that I started to observe the art of making clothes. I also found it hard to find clothes that fit me, and a lot of my girlfriends had the same problem, so I figured why not design and make clothes for myself."

Unlike many designers today, Lewis, a Cabrini College art student, is not worried about what the runway chatter in Milan and Paris reveals. Her main concern is how she

by Maria Chambers staff writer

"Two Gentleman of Verona" was performed at Cabrini over two weekends in March in the Grace Hall Atrium, instead of in the tiny theatre space that has been provided for them to use. "Popcorn," the last play that was performed in the Red Clo~d Theatre, required less people, and all the players did not have to be on stage throughout the entire performance. When Shakespeare's plays were performed in late sixteenth century England, all the actors were on stage at all times, as was the case when a musical version of Shakespeare's "Two Gentleman of Verona" came to Cabrini. With "Two Gentleman of Verona," as a musical, more space than what is available in the "black-box" was needed for the orchestra, the actors and their audience.

"The thing that attracts students is the facilities. There is nothing for the student ambassadors to show," Neal Newman, theatre director, said. "Theatre is not on the tour."

First impressions are important to choosing a college, and the lack of facilities can be a tum-off to incoming students with an interest in theatre. "It's hard to get people to join the play when half the students don't even know that there is a theatre department," first year