Fashion Club promotes sustainable style expression
Juliusson: Hi, I’m Zekiah. And today, we are here with Ellie Dawson-Moore, who is the fashion club leader.
Dawson-Moore: Hi, it’s an honor to be here. Thank you so much for having me.
Juliusson: Well, thanks for being here. So why did you create fashion club?
Dawson-Moore: I have always loved fashion. I think it is one of the most vulnerable forms of creative expression. It really bonds people together, and I feel like the club, even just like the ten individuals we have right now, we have really grown close through talking about all this stuff together.
Juliusson: That’s awesome. What is the mission of fashion club?
Dawson-Moore: Yeah, so our mission is to inspire and to try and educate ourselves on clothing, and you know the ways we consume it, the ways we can create clothing and move from there.
Juliusson: How do you plan your meetings? You obviously do a bunch of creative and independent stuff.
Dawson-Moore: Yeah, mainly it’s just like whatever I am intrigued by um, over the weekend I will like work on a document and try to brainstorm activities, and yeah that’s kind of it. A lot of the meetings are kind of like very social we go around, we talk about like our outfits of the day, we try and snap for everybody you know like give people compliments and feedback. Yeah, it’s a pretty collaborative process.
Juliusson: How does the club want to reach past its current members and like to spread change throughout the whole SPA community?
Dawson-Moore: Yeah, so there are a couple of different things we want to do as a club, the first of which we are hoping to plan up with or coordinate with CAS to plan and run a clothing drive, one just for like clothing donations. But then at another point in the year, we want to do a clothing swap, if not one then multiple, so that the whole community can kind of like share and bring home different articles of clothing and then also maybe start to question like “oh what kind of clothing do I want you to know in my closet”, you know like “what can I get rid off”, “what can I change”, like “what alterations I need to make”.
Juliusson: Yeah that’s really cool. Is there anything else you would like to say?
Dawson-Moore: No, just thank you so much for talking to me. And I hope to see you know, maybe not you if you’re not going to go to fashion club that’s fine, but I hope to see some new faces and even if you don’t think its the right fit for you, we are just like a very welcoming fun bunch of people, and we always appreciate the support so yeah.
Juliusson: Once again, I’m Zekiah, and this interview was with Senior Ellie Dawson-Moore. Thank you.