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4 Love Me Two Times

Get inspired for spring with a spread dedicated to vintage

8 Break The RulesDo fashion faux pas still exist?

6 Step Into SpringWhat to wear with the latest footwear trends

7 Sister SisterTwo sisters place in this year’s Birmingham Fashion Week

Fashion, to me, is so much more than trends. It’s about de-fining your own style and stick-ing with it. Style is like the ex-ternalization of your own cre-ativity, which could validate the phrase “anything goes.”

Just like our Intrigue Edi-tor Elizabeth Wieck says in her column on page eight, fashion hardly holds many rules any-more. That’s the beautiful thing about transforming fashion into your own style—it’s per-sonal and more powerful. Once you begin to form an eye for your personal style, it’s easier to

say no to the latest trend turned $15 top at Forever 21 that you only sort-of like.

This inspired me to create a fashion spread using all vintage clothes. Not only is it exciting to find statement pieces for inex-pensive prices, but you know you won’t find anyone else wearing it. Vintage items tend to be thoughtful purchases. You have to make sure to check the garment for stains or tears, and you most likely will try it on before purchasing. You might even check to make sure you have other items in your clos-et that will work well with it. Taking extra time and consid-eration before buying clothes goes a long way when creating your style.

I want to give special thanks to Ashley Kickliter, the pho-

tographer behind the stunning photos in the fashion spread on page four. She’s only a soph-omore, and she has her own photography business, Open Eye Photography. I came to her with my idea of a vintage-in-spired shoot, and she was in-stantly on-board. We gath-ered all the vintage clothing we could find from our own closets and others, and we were filled to the brim with flower crowns and heart-shaped sunglasses.

Ashley and model Kenslie McGuire were incredible to work with and too gracious to share their talents with The Plainsman. If you’d like to see more photos from the shoot, check ThePlainsman.com for the slideshow.

I hope you enjoy this issue as much as I enjoyed creating it.

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1. “A friend of mine worked at a publication and one of her bosses so casually asked if anyone wanted this bag. she snagged it and sent it to me. it has his initials on it, but that couldn’t phase me in the slightest.” 2. “nearly everything is ac-cessible online, but there is nothing better to me than the surprise of a page turn and the comfort of reading and ap-preciating something in print.”3. “i tend to wait for a per-fect opportunity to break in my shoes so these tasseled loafers have gone untouched since their purchase, but when that day comes, they will be seeing a lot of wear.”

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All vintage clothing used.Photography: Ashley Kickliter of Open Eye Photography

Styling: Melody KitchensModeling: Kenslie McGuire

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INDULGE YOUR SWEET TOOTH

Bianca SewardCOPY EDITOR

Good shoes take you good places. That’s easy. Picking out that good shoe is not so much. Too often a trip to the shoe de-partment can be daunting and terrifying. The shoe racks tower over you threateningly and the price tags can be even ruder.

But this spring is different. Fashion Week welcomed all patterns, colors, prints and materials, taking a no holds barred approach to spring foot-wear. Here are some of the lat-est trends in feet fashion.

The Wedge- The spring sea-son staple is easily the wedge. And thank God for it. The sup-port offered by a wedge is un-matched in the shoe depart-ment. This heel saves you from the stiletto-induced embar-rassment of a Bambi inspired “catwalk” down Magnolia.

The wedge doesn’t need to reinvent itself to renew its lease in your closet. Its basic struc-ture stays the same, but this season it’s debuting new fabrics and bases for the heel. The es-padrille is returning and bring-ing with it wooden wedges and wedges hidden in the same fab-ric as the top to create a seam-less, tailored look.

The Flat- First it was blaz-ers, then the boyfriend jean and now our feet want in on this androgynous trend. Fur-ther proving just how cycli-cal fashion is (everyone has a picture of themselves running around in their fathers over-sized loafers), this spring flat is

the loafer. Loafers blend a mas-culine structure with feminine patterns and have quickly be-come this year’s favorite trend in flats.

Swap out your ballet flats for the strong-meets-com-fortable shoe and save your-self from a night of toe pinch-ing pumps followed by a morn-ing of bandages and reshap-ing your foot. This look is ver-satile and can be dressed up for the office, dressed down for the day or paired with a dress for a night out.

The Sandal- Gone are the gaudy gladiators that took for-ever to strap into and created some of the world’s worst tan lines. Seriously, by September my feet had an unintentional zebra henna tattoo that started at my feet and ended mid-calf. It’s been seasons in the making, but finally the sandal is taking a simple, minimalist approach. This season, pick up simple structures with bold colors for your sandal collection.

The Sneaker- This spring sneakers are stealing the spot-light with mismatched neons and even brighter patterns. Sneakers are mixing loud prints with metallic colors on unusual models. Stores are stocked with pastels, all white, patterned, striped and usual-ly a combination of the afore-mentioned styles.

The plethora of options makes the sneaker my favorite piece this spring because you can’t go wrong. And don’t ya just hate being wrong?

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Set of sisters place in Birmingham Fashion Week

Courtesy of Lynsey Weatherspoon photography

sarah Winford’s designs placed second in the emerging Design-er competition in Birmingham fashion Week.

Kelsey DavisIntrIgue WrIter

two sisters, Sarah and An-nakay Winford, placed in the emerging Designer competi-tion for the third annual Bir-mingham Fashion Week. re-cent Auburn graduate, Sarah, placed second and junior at Au-burn, Annakay, tied for third.

the 14 contestants were each responsible for design-ing a set of four different looks to be modeled thursday, Feb. 28, and Friday, March 1. From there, the top seven designers were selected. the remaining designers showed their collec-tion again in the finales on Sat-urday, March 2.

“I did more of a ready to wear separate collection that was in-spired by old Hollywood,” Sarah said. “There was some leather

and stripes, and it was all black and white and beige.”

Sarah said she watched old Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe films to help gain inspi-ration for the style that she was going for.

Featuring a more structured look, Annakay’s collection was inspired by famous architec-ture such as the Sydney Opera House and the Hoover Dam.

though the sisters’ designs and inspirations were differing, their color palettes were nearly the same.

“We were saying we could probably have all of our mod-els work out together and say it’s one big collection,” Annakay said.

Highlights of the experience for the girls included being sur-rounded by the fashion indus-

try, and getting to meet other designers, both local and more famous.

“Anthony ryan (a Project runway All-Stars winner) was there, so that was awesome,” Annakay said. “He touched my dress at one point that one of my models who was about to go out was wearing. I was so flat-tered.”

Both girls are keeping their options open for the future, but as far as the ultimate dream job goes, both mentioned how they would one day love to go into business together.

“At this point I’m just kind of applying and seeing what hap-pens. I would love to work for Marc Jacobs, but really, if An-nakay and I could just start our own label, that’s ultimately what we would like to do.”

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Fashion has changed. Long gone are the cumbersome rules that have invisibly governed personal style. As of late, the of-ten-rigid restrictions of dress-ing have mostly disappeared, allowing for true freedom in ex-pression of style.

Those at the helm of fashion can be tough critics. Despite many people thinking it’s frivo-lous, the wide world of fashion is nothing if not cutthroat. Per-haps Heidi Klum says it best on Project Runway, “One day you are in, the next day you are out.”

These so-called fashion lead-ers and experts no longer ex-

ert as much influence on us as in the past. While I do love my monthly issues of Vogue and Elle there are other resources to consult when pressed with an outfit problem or looking for inspiration.

But why this change?Of course, the Internet has

played a huge role in eliminat-ing staunch fashion rules. Most women can admit to having more than a few outfits pinned on their Pinterest boards.

Blogs, too, have helped, serv-ing as personal tomes of style and inspiration. Leandra Me-dine, also known as The Man Repeller, has a blog dedicat-ed solely to fashion that repels men. According to the website, her sartorial choices “include, but are not limited to harem pants, boyfriend jeans, over-alls, shoulder pads, full length

jumpsuits, jewelry that resem-bles violent weaponry and clogs.” Talk about creating your own style.

The rise of “street style” has proven to be a popular way to express personal style. For those unfamiliar with the term, “street style” it is exactly what it sounds like–what a person is wearing when they are walking down the street, going about their normal day. Websites like Street Peeper document the style of various fashionably in-clined pedestrians in cities like London, New York and Tokyo.

The beauty of being online is that we can post anything we want. Nothing has to be ap-proved by an editor or analyzed by a stylist. It’s realistic, relat-able and a wonderful melting pot of style.

Further aiding in breaking

down barriers is fast fashion, retailers like Forever 21, H&M and Asos have huge invento-ries that supply the most fash-ion-forward clothes with the current season’s looks straight from the runway. It’s about ac-cessibility and affordability–two factors that have before been a hindrance. Trends are readily available, and we no longer have to shell out a whole month’s worth in paychecks to get the newest Alexander Wang jacket.

Most recently, whites in a form other than cream have emerged as a big trend for win-ter. The advent of the cham-bray shirt has brought back the once-taboo denim on denim, evoking a better version of the unsightly 90s look. Color block-ing has been popular during the past few years, allowing us

to pair two, three and four col-ors together in whatever pal-ette we wish.

Thus, fashion has changed. It’s no longer the institution of exclusivity, but rather inclusivi-ty. We do, in fact, all have to get dressed every day.

Rules no more: street style and fast fashion lead the wayElizabeth WieckINTRIguE@THEPLAINSMAN.COM

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