Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
judy smith Apr 2015
After months of preparation — sketching and making patterns, finding and fitting models, cutting and sewing fabrics, arranging makeup and accessories — Cornell University senior Ellen Pyne this weekend will send her fairy-tale themed “Crimson” line down the Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) runway in a matter of minutes.

Anticipating their moment to shine, Pyne and 35 other student designers have been laboring since last fall to perfect their creations for the 31st CFC runway show, Saturday, April 11, 8 p.m., in Barton Hall. For first-year designers, the event allows them to present a single look on the big stage, whereas seniors like Pyne plan a full collection, hoping it will launch their fashion careers.

“I eat, sleep, go to class and sew,” said Pyne, whose showstopper is a seamless Snow White-inspired dress made entirely out of hand-felted wool. “The collection is a statement of my artistic aesthetic and the culmination of everything I’ve learned over the past four years.”

Working just as diligently are show planners, led by senior CFC president Megan Rodrigues, who are remaking the cavernous Barton Hall field house to host a night of glamour. Since shortly after the curtain closed on last spring’s show, Rodrigues and the CFC executive board have been organizing ticket sales and a heap of other details, including a new runway design will give the expected 2,500 guests a better view of the Cornell student models on the catwalk.

“Through this process, I’ve learned a great deal about leadership, learning to delegate and being able to inspire others to a common goal,” said Rodrigues, who hopes to work in event planning after graduation. “Mostly, I’m excited to see the growth of each designer leading up to the show.”

Designers come largely from the fashion design major in the College of Human Ecology, but students from the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences will also contribute pieces. A multidisciplinary team will present “Irradiance,” a wearable technology collection that uses sensors and luminescent panels to detect and respond to audio—glowing and dimming in sync with surrounding music. Lead designer and junior Eric Beaudette said that team, which includes Lina Sanchez Botero and Neal Reynolds, doctoral students in fiber science and physics, respectively, hopes to inspire a vision for smart clothing of the future.

In the sesquicentennial spirit, the show will also include a nod to the past. Recalling campus styles dating back to 1865, Denise Green, assistant professor of fiber science and apparel design, will air a short video about an exhibit, “150 Years of Cornell Student Fashion,” currently on display in the Human Ecology Building.

Inspired by art and culture she observed studying abroad in Paris last fall, junior Linnea Fong will present “Infatuated,” luxury evening wear she described as taking on “individual obsession with physical perfection and how that manifests in the fashion industry.” Just days before the show, she’s still modifying parts of her collection, noting that “you just have to figure out how to make your ideas come to life, which is the fun part.”

Concluding the show will be a line by senior Blake Uretsky, recipient of a 2015 Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship from the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund. Her “Crested Butte” collection of women’s outerwear, a modern twist on vintage 1950s ski clothing, includes “distinctly wearable, yet visually exciting pieces,” she said. Presenting 10 looks, Uretsky’s line incorporates classic silhouettes and wool, corduroy and denim fabrics embellished with laser cuts and other modern techniques.

“Ultimately, I want to design clothes that people love and have a desire to wear,” Uretsky said. “The show will be such a wonderful experience with my family, friends and the Cornell community all supporting my work.”Read more here:marieaustralia.com | www.marieaustralia.com/cocktail-dresses
COISAS DO ARCO DA VELHA

- Os etês gostam de bunda. Foi o que captei da conversa entre as meninas, enquanto caminhava no calçadão do Liceu.
- Tem caras que não gostam, né; acho que não são chegados; comer um cuzinho será que não faz bem?!
- Cruz credo! Exclamei mentalmente, e segui meu caminho rumo ao Fórum, que fica em frente.
Elas vieram na minha direção, a passos firmes, olhar direto, "você tem fogo...", perguntou a morena pele-de-cuia, "e como tem", observou a loira de olhos azuis, típica europeia, me examinando de cima a baixo, parando os olhos, ostensivamente, na minha barriguilha; "te vejo sempre por aqui", disse a morena, enquanto eu lhe entregava o isqueiro; "é, estou sempre na cantina, tomando café; café de Fórum é choco, frio, fraco, e causa-me asia; então, venho na cantina, às vezes comer alguma coisa", concluí.
- Uma bucetinha, um cuzinho e o que mais? Indagou a loura, acendendo o cigarro.
- Você está sempre cercado de meninas! Não é à toa!! Vai ver é o maior safadão, pica doce.... Completou a morena, sempre combinando seus ataques com a colega.

O Liceu é uma escola destinada à classe média alta, concebida nos tempos do império, onde só entravam filhinhos de papai e seus apadrinhados do aparelho de estado. Mas isso dançou com o advento da república, e hoje, assim como os "Pedro II", recebem qualquer um, desde que aguentem suas provas de avaliação, pois ainda são um padrão de ensino almejado pelas camadas interessadas em ascensão social e tecnica. Seus prédios são construções coloniais, com arquitetura rebuscada, estilosos; janelões de madeira nobre, ainda insensíveis ao cupim. Uma coisa fantástica em termos de concepção, pois possuem salas espaçosas, bem arejadas, lousas imensas, mesas de cedro vernisadas, cheias de gavetas; seus corredores lembram aqueles do filme Harry Potter, sinistros de arrepiar. E no caso do Liceu Nilo Peçanha, de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, tem um sótão, que seguramente foi planejado como adega, pois tem balcãozinho cheio de compartimentos para copos, taças e talheres, à frente de um espelho na parede em moldura de mogno  e uma silhueta vitoriana; além de um velho barril de carvalho, aonde, sem dúvida, Casimiro de Abreu, Fagundes Varela, Lima Barreto e tantas outras celebridades literárias desta terra de orfandades iniciaram-se nos caminhos da radicalidade estética.

- Conhece o sótão do Liceu? Indagou a morena, quase ao pé do meu ouvido.
- É ideal para uma brincadinha... Insinuou ela. Respondi que lá eu já namorei, me embriaguei, estudei e fiz muita reunião do grêmio.
- Então é "liceano... Vamos!" Disseram ambas, quase em uníssono.
No rádio da cantina, exatamente às dez da manhã no meu Rolex, tocava uma canção, cujo trecho diz assim:" Deixa isso pra lá, vem pra cá, venha ver. Eu não tô fazendo nada, nem você também..." e seguia insinuando outras coisas, ditas pela voz de um dos meus tantos ídolos da mpb, Jair Rodrigues.

Bom, pra encurtar o lererê, a morena está aqui em casa há 32 anos. Já somos avós, e, nem os filhos nem os netos jamais saberão das nossas façanhas e quando lhe mostrei o rascunho deste texto, ela fitou-me com seu olhar fogueando e objetou: você não pôr aí os detalhes...
- Claro que não!! São nossas relíquias!

Winter in Lisbon
Up rua Garret I walked and it is steep in baixa, the old heart of
this grand city, past shops that sell lottery ticket, besides a shop that sells
religious artefacts, and a shop that sells Cartier watches.
If you win there is money enough to decorate your mother's  grave
and to buy a posh watch.
At the top of the street of the street a café Brasilia, it used to be
Fernando Pessoa's drinking den, now it is upmarket, suit and short
hair place who drinks tea and eat pastry; their forefathers used to
look down their noses at Fernando, now they are proud of him.
Irreverent poets can go somewhere else to drink.
The master poet is a statue outside his café in the rain, and tourists
take picture of him, one wonders what he thinks of it all.
There is also a statue of Antonio Ribero Chiado, a poet who lived
in the sixteen hundred, the largo is called after him, he was bald
and dressed like a monk.
I could see the river Tagus where tug-boats ply their in grey waters,
and remembered when I used to be a ******.
The church across the street “Incarnacao”, where Antonio used to pray
is beautifully restored, but his God had left by the back door
the front door was too heavy but saw a woman weeping in front
of a statue of Christos, “***** for the masses? Why not?
It is getting dark the Portuguese suits are swallowed by the metro,
and men with cardboard boxes look for a doorway to sleep in.
Over this scene hovers Amalia Rodrigues the great Fado singer,
born in poverty, she hums a song for the wretched.
Kim Rodrigues Feb 2017
brown soil erupts with till.
more or less still, with seed.
growing pains burst ground,
cosseted by umbrella stem.
seeds of dandelion spread,
waving kisses as they spin.
sunflower magnifies in sky…
till
      seed
                stem
                       ­    ****
                                      sky
                  ­         tired
                 birds
         sigh
o’er

them.  garter snake slithers, amidst anxious pansies and elephant ears.
                                                           ­                                          gray clouds
                                                          ­                                            e
         x
         p
l…………….o
        d……………………..e

xxxxxxxxxxx
­ xxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx

Kim Rodrigues (c) 2017
Kim Rodrigues Feb 2017
pulpit pounds fist
take your vitamins
sun glares callous

Kim Rodrigues ©2017
Back to my land
Astonishing
This feeling that only Rodrigues is able to bring into me
It just feels home
Home, home and home
Is there any other word to depict what,
Rodrigues means to mean,
Less hurtful are the memories of my late mother.
I feel safe, like a fish in its pond.
Onto my safeland.
Where my culture and friends nurtured my
Early reality,
Family everywhere, even the strangers feel like family.
My safe-land, where the memories are sweet to my soul.
Home.
Back home
Kim Rodrigues Feb 2017
angels glimpse
spryness

of mirthful eyes
and volcanic cheeks

as puffy snowballs leap
about

chatoyant eyes glide
side to side

halcyon hands stroke
chalkboard hue

erasing frenetic world
prowling paws stir

snippets of serenity
beautiful dreams

shyness sheltered
in nuzzled fur

~ sadness scurries ~
purr of laconic

loneliness of
an only child

Kim Rodrigues © 2017
Kim Rodrigues Feb 2017
dig deeper dagger
whilst i hold the golden stake
crowd shuffles nervously
cautiously applauding
sins whispered in the dark

Kim Rodrigues ©Feb 2017

Oscar madness causes me to write!
Oscar madness causes me to write! If you don't know, the wrong movie was called out for best pic. As the group was accepting, the statue was snatched.
Kim Rodrigues Feb 2017
humongous red sun
hovers nearer to the earth
river reflects hues

Kim Rodrigues (c) 2017
Johnny Noiπ May 2018
The avant-garde (/ˌævɒ̃ˈɡɑːrd/; French
pronunciation: ​[avɑ̃ɡaʁd]; from French,
"advance guard" or "vanguard",
literally "fore-guard") are                              people or
works that are                      experimental, radical,
or unorthodox with                                respect to ar                      t, culture,
or society.                            It may be characterized    by
                             nontraditional,                                   aesthetic innovation
and initial unacceptability,                           and it
                                    may offer a critique of the                       relationship
between producer and  consumer.

The avant-garde                           pushes the boundaries                        of
                       what is accepted                                             as the norm or
the status quo,                            primarily                     in the cultural realm.
The avant-garde is           considered by
s                     s                     some to be a hallmark of                        
                                      ­        modernism,
as distinct from                                           postmodernism.
Many artists                  have aligned                                             themselves
with the avant-garde                                 movement and  
continue to do so,                                   tracing a history
               from Dada                            through the
Situationists to                                  postmodern artists                         such
as the Language                                 poets around 1981.

The avant-                   garde                      also
promotes radical                                                          ­      social reforms.
It was this                   meaning that was
evoked by the Saint S                            imonian
                                                              Ol­inde Rodrigues in his essay
"L'artiste, le savant et                         l'industriel"
("The artist, the scientist and
                    the industrialist", 1825),                                         which
contains                                           the first recorded use of
          "                     avant-garde" in its now                     customary
     sense: there,                                                   Rodrigues calls on
       artists to                  "serve as the         people's      
    avant-garde",                           insisting that "the
power of the arts       is                                    indeed the most
                   immediate                                     and fastest way" to                social,
political and economic                                             change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde
Johnny Noiπ Mar 2019
Her sister and her words, the death of Caroline
or her younger brother. At the end of the meeting,
Charlene Lilly granted a license to meet her
at Queen's College, Addis Ababa, on April 30, 1977,
at the age of 17. His 12-year-old partner, Hildegard
Antimim welcomed the 12-year-old girl who had died
in a social network where she was pregnant.
March 77, Pavia, Louisiana, June 1986 There were
two towns in the capital, Adolf ****** in June 1974.
After the child's death, he / she will return to French.
In 1978, she was born in St. Louis, Spain, and took
her husband and her husband. The son of Lenin, Anna
and Luis Rodrigues, Pevin Atsinin and the tomb
in Italy were replaced by President Adrian's Gypsies,
about four children traveling around 780/78. This helps
to build communication between Carolina and APS.
This is because you have the time of external exits.
By the end of the term, Deer died in April 783.
Buried in San Fablo. Arnold, Massachusetts,
Westminster Street, May 1. Daily Prayers
and Ideas Based on the Spirit of the Clothes.
German Foundation of The German women
and their son Harshita, who believe Steven's
womb, have already changed the designer
and his wife, Emma Gregola Carlouting.
This is especially important for the younger
brother and his brother Katreman, the German
for Owen. Aladdair used her queen to find more money.
He still knows that he is the only marriage partner
or shareholder. The king's responsibility
                         is also a supreme court
                         or court of law. However,
                         he was very close to my wife.
                         She is living in 752 Westminsterland
                         with her husband's financial
                         and political support. William Murray,
Romans and Saint Michael, Victor 773/774
after the victory of Italian National President
Spitzer won the president. The Board of Directors
paid a small sum of money for banquets
for convents and events. Cuban
and her son, Luis, were eventually arrested
in Central Europe during the Middle Ages.
They start with singing many of the miracles -
Chapel Zell, Hildregard, Kipel, Const.
The emperor was present at Saul Guanti
in Kagnew, confirming the necessity. They
left them in the seventh century for military
service. The city's necessity stays strong.
Hildegard is the base of the church through
the neighborhood of Lauren Square. In 1862,
before traveling to Flowers Way, he traveled
to Holglass Hall in Lowell-Hillygandan,
Illinois. It is still 1874. Her sister
and her promise, the death of Carolellan
or the fact that she is part of her younger
brother. On the turn, Charlene Lay met Lady
Borg, Queen Desiderata Alde Chapelle,
granted her permission to meet her
on April 30, 771, at the age of 17 and then
unlike the Roman rule. It was very well
received by the 12-year-old girl who died
in social relationships with 12 years of marriage,
Hildegard ACT-Yim, where she was pregnant.
In March 77, Pavia, Lowveron, in June 774,
the capital of Adolf ****** was two cities.

When the child dies he returns to the French language.
In 778, Zellik was born with twins Lewis and Lothair,
like Aquino and her husband. The son of Carlomagno
and Luis and Karolomanos, Papin Aquatine and Caballero
in Italy, were replaced by the Roma in Pope Hadrian,
with four children traveling around 780/781. This will
help build relationships between Carolina and APS.
This is because you have little time in your external
opposition. When Decker concluded, Solomon  died
in April 783. He was buried in San Pablo. Arnold,
Massachusetts, on Westminster Street 1 in May.
Daily prayers and thoughts of God are based on the spirit of dress.
The German foundation is the son of German women
who believe in the womb of Constance-Duke
and their daughter Herresintha has changed the designer
and his wife Emma Guerrilla Crede Udaliching. Heidelgard,
Charlemagne's father, this room is very important
for the younger brother and brother Karlman,
German Government Eugenie, to work for it.
Eldegard used her job as queen to earn more money.
So far he knows that after marriage, only the head
of the marriage office or stock exchange. He also
believes that the king's duty is the Supreme Court
of the Court or the Court of Justice. That said, I was
close to my husband's decision. With the financial
and political support of her husband, she lives at 752
in Westminsterland. William Marie, Saints, Roman
Guardian Martyrs 773/774 Only the president
of the state space spectrum after the victory of Italy
took him out of Kearney. From Zenón to the director
of the pioneer. A little money sent to the monastery
of the sparrows and then to the Knights. Later, Cuban
and his son Louis were buried in Derpoke in the Middle
Ages. Apply songs and offer many miracles: Chapel
Zell, Hildegard, Capeel, Const. He affirmed that the emperor
was in San Agustí with respect to Olga and that it is important.
They had left him and left for the seventh century to another
Fürstblatt in the Armed Forces. The importance of the city
remains strong. The square zero of Hildegard is the base
of the Church in the front of the square of the embassy
of Laurent. In 1862 he arrived at Landhaus, which was closed
in 1950 at Hildegard Square, in Black-Heildegardsbrunnen,
before seeing Franz Weiss. There is still 1874.

— The End —