Gamin or gamine? …Gamin/e, is the answer of Northeastern University's Haute Fashion, a college organization that on Saturday April 23rd, at 7.30 pm welcomed the public to its second annual fashion show. The theme was gender play, boy-ish vs. girl-ish, or rather, in stead of putting them in the competing dichotomy that "vs." alludes at, a more adapt formulation would be "boyish? girlish?". Finally a vague "boyish/girlish" where we have no longer a polarity but rather a fluid continuum, was the answer.
French was not only in the title of the show. The event had an air of haute couture, where traditional and established gender roles were explored not through an awkward experimentation that aims at pointing out the discomfort of being placed in pre-molded, inelastic societal gender structures, but rather through refined clothes that affirmed the life, elegance, strength of the body and individual with no need to abide by any social expectation for respective genders.
Models performed in clothes from celebrated designers of international reputation, and hence the show didn't have the rough edges of young, local talent, aspiring to recognition, but rather the shine that comes with maturity and perfectioning of the design. Benetton, French Connection, Banana Republic, and LF were the source retailers of the show.
Adrianna Boulin, Shanique Williams, Khanh Nguyen, Joe Andrews, Haley Reddington to mention only a few of the models, performed their steps and poses in rhythmic syntony with DJ James Perez' mix. At the end of the presentation the staff of Haute Fashion took the stage to announce the new officers of the organization for next year.
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