Author: Michelle Ofiwe

  • Final Project Woes: Lessons Learned and the Future

    This semester in Fashioning Circuits, I was commissioned (re: required) to create a final project that exhibited the dual nature of fashion and circuits. Although I felt up to the challenge, I actually spent many weeks accidentally setting my project on fire and haphazardly learning about coding. It wasn’t all bad: I gained some new programming and…

  • The “Mominista”: Can Fashion and Function meet?

    In honors in Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot about my mother’s fashion. I grew up as a 90s kid surrounded by the neon flash and bold prints of clothes only children could wear; my mom, in comparison, wore very subdued, neutral clothing. Her style still remains very much the same today: a splash…

  • On Street Fashion and the Everyday Fashionista

    Street fashion–that is, fashion of the everyday stylized young adult–has seemed to carve its own place in the fashion world very recently. There are plenty of factors that play into its expansion over the decades: the rapid fire emergence of the Internet as media and a means of expression, the accessibility of more expensive, quality…

  • Kinetic Charges: Where Fashion and Movement Meet

    If you’re anything like me, Argentinian industrial designer Soledad Martin will become your personal lifesaver.