Kenna Thornton
This is a photoshoot of the fashion practicum students: Kylie Corbridge, Malia Sofi, Arianna Day, and Kelsey Rohde. The point of the photoshoot is to show the students gaining inspiration from design magazines such as Vogue in an artistic, chaotic way.
The fashion practicum program started a magazine as one of its projects for the year. Their first edition will be a fall fashion magazine. The program hopes to get two editions out every nine weeks. It is a literary magazine, which means it focuses on art and creative writing pieces. The magazine is called Cats Closet and will feature writing pieces about how music relates to fashion, current trends, people’s opinions on the fashion world, student art pieces, and hot takes. The magazine is to be published at the end of the 9 weeks, and can be found on WildcatsWired.net.
“Last year, there was this senior, Soha, and she showed us this program from a school in New York,” fashion club president, Malia Sofi, said. “It was just a creative way to showcase the fashion world, and we wanted to replicate it.”
The returning class decided to incorporate the seniors’ idea into part of their practicum program. The students decided that a magazine would be best.
“My students are actually the ones who wanted it to be a really professionally made, in-depth magazine,” fashion design teacher Emily Thomas said. “So I let them think of what they could accomplish, and I really didn’t put a limit on what they could or could not do.”
The original idea was to make the magazines printed issues. However, the class thought it would be best to have the magazine online.
“This way we can share it with the students and community more easily,” senior Kylie Corbridge said. “We would write and share our work throughout the years, and we can keep a year-long project going in addition to working on the fashion show.”
This project is mainly run by the students in the practicum program, and it is a way to explore the aspects of the fashion world.
“They’re going to incorporate a lot of different avenues, and it’ll be very fashion-focused,” Thomas said. “So we’ll stay away from politics and focus on what they see in their hallways or what’s been coming up in the fashion world.”
The issue will have different topics, like fashion show hot takes. One student in particular is happy to work on her portion of the magazine.
“I’m excited to work on my pages because it’s music to fashion,” senior Kelsey Rohde said. “I listen to a lot of music, and I kind of make it my personality a lot of the time, and just combining it with fashion sounds really exciting.”
The magazine will incorporate people from the school who have an interest in fashion, so it will not only be for the students already in the fashion classes or club. The student body can be involved with the magazine through things like submitting playlists for the music to fashion section, student art pieces, and student opinions.
“The goal is to build people’s interest in it, and if they are involved with the magazine, then it’s even better,” senior, Arianna Day said.
The practicum program has put in work for this fall’s edition of the magazine. They hope that the reaction from the students and staff is positive.
“I just hope that they can see the time and effort we put into this project, and I hope people can appreciate and love what we did,” Day said.