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Sometimes joy is a radical act.
“When I was in middle school, I wore bright, patterned pants that I called my ‘confidence pants,’” said Emma Rubinson, a senior in fashion design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. “They made me feel bold, expressive, and a little uncomfortable. Facing my fear of judgment helped me gain confidence in myself, and inspired me to always wear my heart on my sleeve.”
At 4 p.m. Saturday, May 15, Rubinson and six classmates will present their work as part of the Sam Fox School’s 92nd Annual Fashion Design Show. Filled with sleek silhouettes, saturated palettes and crazy-quilt textures, the show titled “The Collective” is a full-throated rejection of pandemic-era dourness.
Life in the time of COVID
Snapshots of how one WashU family lived, worked and thrived in a year that threw us all off balance
The Nussinov family (from left) Maya, Tsitsi, Zohar and Ethan walking their dog, Pi, in Clayton’s Oak Knoll Park. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)
February 22, 2021 SHARE
In 2020, so much about what we know to be normal came to a grinding halt for the Washington University in St. Louis community. One week in March, we’re looking ahead to a spring “break,” and then suddenly it’s a hiatus turned into a couple of months that’s turned into a way of life. A sea change, that no one really saw coming. Yet the work of the university went on and goes on as the pandemic spills into 2021. How? Because of all of us.