Into the Multiverse | Ka Leo

Contacting all vogue enthusiasts and connoisseurs: mark your calendars, due to the fact UHM’s vogue event of the 12 months is just all-around the corner. The Style Structure and Merchandising system is hosting its 58th Annual Trend Exhibition on April 30 at the Campus Middle Ballroom. 

Made by the FDM 430 Vogue Display Production class, the showcase is titled “In the Multiverse,” capturing the assorted themes of the several collections staying featured. The exhibition will showcase models built by each senior and junior FDM college students.

The junior assortment titled “Celestial Grace and Lunar Abyss” is a swimsuit collection that will feature 13 designers contributing two models each individual.

There will be three senior collections, each individual with five to 6 models. Intended to showcase the end result of expertise honed by the FDM method. These collections consist of a range of designs, encompassing both equally men’s and women’s dress in. The senior designers also build just one to two patterns for the Hawaiian selection.

Compared with previous several years, this showcase will not be in the common runway vogue clearly show format. As the name states, it will be an exhibition structure, with the layouts becoming shown on each mannequins and reside types. In the course of the exhibition, the dwell products will be accomplishing what is called a  “salon-model wander.”

“They will walk by the crowd and interact with men and women rather of just becoming visible from a seat and seeing them stroll on a runway,” UHM senior Quinn Curammeng claimed. “So it’ll be a tiny additional interactive. It’ll be extra visible.”

In addition, there will be booths centered on just about every of the themes of the collections in which the types will be reside posing. There will be possibilities for photographs with the models and interacting with the designers themselves. 

“This exhibit is far more, I would say special,” FDM senior Khat Bautista said. “Because you sort of get more into the facts of what the designers did and you get to chat a lot more. In its place of just hunting at the runways or you just see the clothes, you get to glance further.”

The designers currently experienced a chance to showcase their models at the Manner Pre-Present held at Ala Moana Centerstage on April 6. This function acted as a semi-dress rehearsal for the designers, products and production crew, as nicely as a way to encourage the actual exhibition to a huge audience. 

“It was surely pretty enjoyment,” Bautista reported. “Especially for the designers since it is like a sneak peek of what they’ll do for the precise demonstrate.”

 

Generally, senior designers will start off operating on their strains in the Tumble semester, but FDM senior Hokumalie Serna had started scheduling hers in Summertime 2023. She started off coming up with concepts and illustrations to craft what she required her central theme to be. 

She eventually landed on creating a selection inspired by the artists that she listened to developing up, leaning into a nostalgic sensation. Titled “Listen to the Muse,” her assortment contains 6 different seems encouraged by audio artists Queen, Prince, Selena, TLC, Destiny’s Baby and Michael Jackson.

“I really wished to honor the tunes artists that sort of impressed me and form of manufactured me who I am,” Serna explained.

Seeking back again on her college or university profession, Serna shared a remarkable change from a novice to a competent designer. When she to start with begun higher education, she admits she had in no way utilised a sewing device. But by way of dedication and perseverance, she proudly crafted seven clothes in just just one yr.

Serna suggests that inspite of what many others think, she thinks of trend as an artwork and a way to specific your feelings and creativity. Serna hopes to just one working day open up up a trend business enterprise of her have. 

“I do want to individual many firms, with any luck , nationally, and internationally,” she stated. “I feel I have constantly been intrigued with possessing a clothes brand, and then just one day I’d want to individual a Hawaiian luxurious model.”

FDM senior Quinn Curammeng will also have her collection “Illusionistic Eidolons” highlighted in the demonstrate. She describes her have fashion as “K-pop aesthetic streetwear,” which is one particular of the principal inspirations of her collection. 

As a prolonged-time supporter of the globally famed K-pop group BTS, Curammeng has used their music movie aesthetics and themes as the aim of her selection. Some of the tunes and ideas she made use of as inspiration include things like “Black Swan,” “Map of the Soul,” “Singularity” and “Wings.”

“It’s form of meant to encompass like, fantasy inspirations,” Curammeng mentioned. “Eidolons is also an additional word for an idol or a person who is very inspirational to you. And then illusionistic comes from the point that I also really enjoy fantasy aesthetics and motion picture tropes.” 

It is no coincidence that Curammeng’s patterns are motivated by her preferred K-pop, as she also hopes to a single working day see her types on a phase, music video clip or crimson carpet.

“So producing couture general performance outfits, things that actually emphasizes various portions of the human body,” Curammeng claimed. “As nicely as just maybe some thing for a songs video clip. Like I feel I also have a minimal bit of costume style and design under my belt now, and I truly feel like I would like to see my clothes it’s possible pretty far down the highway, at minimum on the purple carpet of some sort.”

The remaining senior assortment that will be featured in this year’s exhibition is Bautista’s “Beyond the Veil.” As a lover of entertaining shades and daring patterns, Bautista wished to examine a whole lot of unique textiles in her assortment. Creating sustainability a priority, she bought most of her resources from next-hand outlets and used repurposed products as properly. 

“Each of my outfits has kind of like a story powering it,” Bautista stated. “And I desired the woman’s seem to be extra of the central, the main aim. And then my male seems, form of just in the track record, like the supporting roles.”

Bautista began her manner journey at a younger age, motivated by viewing her grandmother. She would sit beside her and make outfits for her Barbie dolls with the scraps of cloth from her grandmother’s costume generating. 

Bautista hopes to one day become an independent style designer, specially in sluggish style and with a concentration on sustainability. She also wants to give back again to her have neighborhood and get the job done with aspiring vogue learners. 

“I do hope to perform with aspiring college students who want to turn out to be [fashion designers], and I want to go back again to with any luck , my local community in Kalihi,” Bautista stated. “I know that there’s kind of a rising manner application there, and I type of want to operate along with with them.”

As the present draws in close proximity to, every person feels a combine of exhilaration and nerves, but the excitement wins out in the stop.

“I’m hunting ahead to persons seeing how much we have labored for this 12 months,” Serna mentioned “Like we pretty much invested a year working on this assortment, each individual 1 of us, and it gives a chance for men and women and loved ones to see how a great deal we as seniors have been performing on for the previous four several years of learning here.”