Without giving too much away before the presentation, I wanted to document the meaning behind this term’s work, the design choices I have made, and further directions I would like to explore in this space of “Celestial Identities”. The Motivation The motivation behind these pieces was to explore what the concept of identity is. I…

After these past two weeks, the project’s end has definitely been coming into sight. The week following this should be just finishing up some final things and getting some pictures. At the beginning of this period. I finished the final “tailoring” things with the clothes. In terms of the Leo outfit, I cut the dress’s…

So last week said I’d try to document more about the actual process of making the clothes, but a few pictures in, I realized that it actually just looks like a big ball o’ fabric up until the very end. It’s really one of those things you have to see in person and interact with…

A note from future Nathan, cursing my past self: I totally forgot to take pictures during the process, so it’s hard to see it coming together, I will remember to do that next time! This week I worked on the mesh turtleneck and the start of the dress. There were a couple of things that…

Janet Hansen is the Founder and Chief Fashion Director of Enlighted, Inc. Her business focuses on adding lights to clothes to create novel designs that can change patterns and colors on-the-go. However, Hansen’s path to owning this company was not what one might expect. She originally started off as a Ph.D. in Bioengineering where she…