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But if you dress really nicely and are wearing really expensive clothes, people are going to respond. I’ve heard teachers say what students are wearing is amazing, and they will be more friendly with students if they feel like they share the same personal taste. Certain kids dress in super-expensive clothes and look beautiful. It makes it seems like their work has much more taste because you see how they present themselves. I think it can help but I don’t think it hurts you.
When I was taking womenswear classes my first year, it was very catty. Everyone was giving side-eye to everyone else. But I don’t see a whole lot of that now because I’m in the menswear section. I feel like the menswear students are more inviting. We’re all in menswear because we want to design for that customer. We understand that frame of mind, and we understand the idea of no-fuss.
I haven’t dated anyone since I have been at Parsons. It’s really impossible to sustain any kind of emotional relationship with anybody. I can barely keep my relationship with my parents solidly. If I’m out at a bar with my friends, I’m talking about how much homework I have to do. In the beginning of the year I’ll go out every weekend and as the months go in, I’ll go out once a month, and by the end of the semester I will not even consider leaving school.
Right now, I am working on my thesis. It is the pinnacle of everything, and might be the one thing that will get you a job. That’s the dream. At the end of the semester, whenever we show our clothes to a panel of judges, they are the first step to getting your work outside of school. If one of the judges sees something they really like they might tell someone, or set up a meeting, and then their store or maybe Barneys or Bergdorf Goodman would like to buy the whole collection.
I am not surprised. Sorely reflects on the state of fashion production/cycles of waste as well.