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The New School, Parsons School of Design: Master of Arts, Fashion Studies (Graduated 2024)

SMU Look

ALL ARTICLES WERE WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED ON THE SMU Look WEBSITE:

2022/01/02: The Truth About Fast Fashion Fast fashion is about making clothes quick, cheap, and disposable, but many are unaware of how these practices are negatively affecting the environment.

2021/12/07: Poshmark Pro Tips Read on to learn how to Posh like a pro.

2021/12/05: Volume 6, Issue 1: SMU Look Fall Winter 2021 Served as senior editor for this award-winning issue of SMU Look. Responsible for supervising the overall process of creating and planning content, as well as writing and editing original content.

  • 2nd Place, Story Package Design, Magazine: Fashion in Focus: Sharpen your style with this trio of trends. 2021 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Awards.
  • 2nd Place, Overall Excellence, General Magazine. 2021 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Awards.
  • 3rd Place, Best Student Magazine. Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards 2022.

2021/11/22: The Devil is Thin My whole life the paradigm that fat girls won’t make it in fashion has been reinforced. Whether through movies, magazines, models or mannequins, everyone, everywhere was thin. Will I have to drop 15 pounds, steal the job from the next girl and buy new Chanel boots that I can’t afford in order to pass go?

  • 3rd Place, General Column Writing, The Devil is Thin. Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards 2021.

2021/11/19: The Not-So Sudden Resurrection of Tie-Dye Tie-dye is known as the trademark trend of the hippie era, but will it also be known as the trademark of the 2020s?

2021/11/18: Take a Look: Ana Paula Tirado Take a look and get to know fashionista, world-traveler and SMU senior: Ana Paula Tirado.

2021/10/18: Las Vegas Senior Trip Staples Are you starting to shop for the Senior Fall Break Vegas Vacay? Keep reading to get inspiration for the staples you’re absolutely going to need.

2021/09/14: The Met Gala: Best and Worst Looks After two long years, fashion lovers’ souls have finally been fed with the return of the Met Gala. Keep reading to check out my opinion on the best and worst looks of the night.

2021/05/13: Volume 5, Issue 2: Shared Styles (pages 32-33) My story submission was selected out of dozens for the Spring 2021 print and online publication of the SMU Look Magazine.

2021/02/12: U.S. Fashion Copyright Laws Are Totally Last Season The multi-trillion dollar fashion industry has always had to deal with counterfeit and copyright issues due to the United States’ complicated, outdated and weak copyright laws.

SMU DAILY CAMPUS

ALL ARTICLES WERE WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED ON THE SMU DAILY CAMPUS WEBSITE:

2021/06/01: COMMENTARY: Despite the Efforts of the “#MeToo” Movement, Women in Cox are Still Struggling for Equality in the Workplace Women in business school and in the business industry are still fighting sexist societal norms everyday. The SMU Cox School of Business is no different.

2021/05/25: Busy, Busy Jenny B. – SMU Fashion Media Professor Jenny B. Davis Never Stops Most students often don’t take even one minute to learn about their professors’ background. If they did, they would learn about educators like Jenny B. Davis, who is as interesting as it gets.

2021/04/18: Are the Snowstorm Make-Up Days Going to Good Use? The February winter storm, known across the U.S. as Winter Storm Uri, covered the D-FW metroplex in more than five inches of snow — the most snow Dallas has seen in almost 10 years. 

2021/03/08: Snowstorm Make-Up Day Plan Does Not Receive Majority Student Approval SMU announced Good Friday and the first reading day will be used to make up class missed due to the February snowstorm, but many students told The Daily Campus they do not support the decision. 

2021/02/08: COVID-19 Vaccine Center Ready at SMU SMU is prepared with the infrastructure, staff, and registration process to vaccinate SMU community members as soon as they receive their first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine.

2021/01/17: SMU Students of Color Think Greek-life Diversity and Inclusion Efforts are a “Cop-Out” SMU Greek students may soon see changes regarding diversity and inclusion, but some question if these changes will actually make any progress.

2020/10/08: SMU Hosts Vice Presidential Debate Watch Party Virtually and In-Person Simultaneously Vice presidential debate watchers felt the debate went much better than the first presidential debate in September.

2020/09/29: SMU Junior, Olivia Ramirez, Becomes the First-ever SMU Kendra Scott ‘Gem’, While On-Campus Gems Program Pivots to Continue Virtually Kendra Scott moves their ambassadorship program online and SMU’s first student to be involved shares some insight.