Both elegant and vintage styles will be featured in
the senior fashion collections created by Western Wayne High School students
for their yearly fashion design show.
These designs will be a featured part of the Road Trip to Fashion Show to
take place Friday, May 31 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Western Wayne High School
Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 1970A Easton Turnpike, Lake Ariel, PA. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The event that is open to
the public and is an opportunity for student designers to compete and show
their fashions with all proceeds donated to local food pantries and the Dessin
Animal Shelter. Admission is $1 for
students and $2 dollars for adults.
Sophomore Emily Pavlicek
is collecting the money from the event for her senior project and worked
closely with show director and fashion teacher Colleen Carmody to ensure that
all proceeds go to both very worthy local causes.
Emily is highly interested in fashion design
and helping the local community.
Therefore, she thought this would be a great way for her to incorporate
her senior project into her studies at Western Wayne.
Carmody is excited for
the community to join her and her students on Friday evening, May 31, to
support good causes and see the fantastic work they have created.
Carmody explained how there
will be much for the community to enjoy at the fashion show. She described how the hallway leading to the
auditorium will be decorated and will feature senior displays and displays of
pieces from her intro to fashion class.
The show itself will
feature pieces that students in her textile, fashion I, and fashion II classes
have created and chosen to show.
Some of the student
pieces will feature fashion creations that are up-cycled, when an item like an
old pair of jeans is made into a skirt, and creations that are recycled, when a
designer takes something like jean fabric and makes it into a newly designed
piece.
In addition, her two
seniors who have taken fashion for four years Victoria Petrosky and Isabel
Valentin will have their senior collections featured in the show on the runway. Victoria’s is titled “Elegance” and Isabel’s
is “Inspiring Vintage.”
Along with these pieces
and collections, the highlight of the evening will be collections created by
fashion students working in teams. This
part of the event is run much like the popular show Project Runway in the respect that Carmody will release the theme
of the team-created fashions the week of the show. Then students have a limited time to design
and create their fashions.
There will be two teams
of five student designers each working on the collection, one team led by
Victoria and the other by Isabel. The
fashions will be shown on the runway to music with lighting design to go with
the pieces. Carmody explained how her
students work closely with students in video production and stage crew
students.
Both seniors are very
excited for the competition and to showcase their senior collections at the
event.
“It is important to keep
calm and stay focused,” Victoria said of her mindset for creating fashions for
the show with her team under a strict deadline.
“It’s exciting because I get to let my creativity go wherever it wants
to.”
She is also thrilled to
share her senior collection called “Elegance” with both her classmates and the
local community. The students will show
Road Trip to Fashion to the high school student body during the school day on
Friday, May 31.
The in-school fashion
show is judged by a panel including members of the District Office, past
alumni, and others. The winners of the
show will be announced at the evening presentation.
Victoria is especially
excited to show the gold, flowing skirt in her “Elegance” collection.
“My collection mirrors
the elegant style I like to wear to formal events,” Victoria, who will go on to
earn a bachelor’s in sociology from East Stroudsburg University,
explained. “My gold skirt is one of my
favorite pieces because of how pretty it looks when I spin in it. It is a floor-length skirt made of gold
satin.”
Another piece she is
especially proud of in her collection is her purple high-waist pants made of
cotton.
“I like them because they
are fitted and have pockets,” she said.
Victoria explained that
she first developed her love of sewing through her work with the local Explorers
4-H Club in Hamlin. She also developed
her sense of confidence and a love for expressing herself through her time
dancing at a local studio for ten years and in three Western Wayne musical
productions in her high school career.
Victoria’s classmate
Isabel Valentin is just as excited as Victoria to share her senior collection
at the show. Her collection is titled
“Inspiring Vintage.”
“I like really old
styles,” Isabel, who plans to student dentistry at Pennsylvania College of
Technology in Williamsport next year, explained. “My designs are unique. One of my favorites is a jumper with a puffy
sleeve blouse. I like the look of
flowing garments that aren’t the norm to wear.”
Another piece Isabel will
feature in the show that she especially enjoys is her kimono.
“I like mostly Japanese
fashion and how traditional it is,” she said. “I am very excited for the show
itself and to show off my garments for the last time at Western Wayne.”
Isabel is also a member
of the National Art Honor Society and was named artist of the month by the Scranton Times for May. She enjoys doing acrylic painting and making
ceramics when she isn’t busy fashion designing.
“With art it’s easier to
go into my pieces and fix them as I go,” Isabel explained. “With design I need
a very precise plan, because it is not as easy to change once you start going
with a piece.”
And Isabel is ready to
take on that challenge when she works to lead her team in creating their
designs for the competitive portion of the Road Trip to Fashion event.
All of the students are
excited for the public to come out and see the designs they have worked on this
year. They cordially invite the
community to attend their show and donate to local food pantries and the Dessin
Animal Shelter through their admission fee on Friday, May 31, at 7 p.m. in the
high school auditorium.
Isabel and Victoria did a
recent photo shoot in preparation of the fashion show event and were excited to
wear some of their completed pieces.
“I like how I feel in my
clothing,” Isabel explained. “It helps
me feel empowered and elegant.”
