SPRING . 2011WEAR IT WELL

Hey,Madeline in this issue...

Fashion Shoot: Old Hollywood 5

Madeline Raids Your Room: AnneFairfield-Sonn 1

Hey, Man: Legwear 2

Interview: Ranee C 2 Mixed Feelings on Chanel 4

Regina Desantis ‘12FounderandEditor-in-Chief

Hallie Santo ‘12Editor-at-Large

Claire Shiplett ‘14ChiefofPhotography

Shadae Beale ‘12Treasurer and Webmistress

Taylor Bass ‘13Acting Treasurer

Brittany-Rae Gregory ‘12Secretary

Kara Bernert ‘12 Afiya Addison ‘13Layout Directors

Lisa Valera ‘12Ky Deng ‘14Yuki Zhu ‘14Layout Team

Angie Alexander ‘11Anya Clifford ‘12Helen Driftmier ‘14Manuel Legrand-Gomez MITWritingStaff

Alexandra Fuiks ‘14Photographer

Anne Marie LaScala, ‘11Laura Gruberg ‘11Nabeela Arshi ’12Yasmine Devi-Chou ‘12Nia Phillips ’12Leyla Chaieb ‘13Models

SPRING, 2011

Photo: December 2010

Simplicity seems to be Annie’s signature. When she isn’t dancing the night away with her TZE sisters, you’ll most likely see her wearing a V-neck T-shirt and comfortable jeans paired with timeless gold earrings or a chain necklace. And like most new Englanders, Connecticut-born Annie knows how to wear her cloth-ing well even in the coldest of winters. “I love sweaters with fold-over necklines,” she says, pulling out a cheery green piece that she loves to wear at Christmastime.

Room

What’s old is new in this issue of Hey, Mad-eline. While my fellow staff members have

showcased Old Hollywood glamour at its finest and commented on the latest additions to Cha-nel’s legendary line, I’ve chosen to pay a call on Annie Fairfield-Sonn: a second-genera-

tion Wellesley woman with a keen eye for style...

I made myself comfortable in Annie’s oversized single in Claflin – where she serves as first-floor RA – while she immediately pulled out a few of her favorite formal dresses. As a member of Tau Zeta Epsilon, Annie knows her way around the society formal circuit and always dresses to impress. She showed off two of her favorite Britt Ryan outfits – a black dress accented with a shiny bow and a simpler turquoise ensemble.

When she’s in need of new threads, Annie heads to Newbury Street or her favorite outlet stores. She gravitates to the bright patterns of Lilly Pulitzer and Vineyard Vines and usually totes along a vibrant Vera Bradley or Dooney & Bourke bag. But as Annie attests, she isn’t your stereotypical “straight-up popped-col-lar prep.” While she wears plenty of hand-me-down scarves from her mother and grandmother, her fa-vorite is a playful Italian piece patterned with horse

Annie’s love for themed parties adds an eccentric streak to her wardrobe. Among her sunhats and other innocuous-looking headwear, you’ll likely find her Indiana Jones hat and a red headband decked out with lobster claws. These quirky items corrobo-rate Annie’s definition of her personal style: “classic prep with a twist.”p

Hallie Santo

Raiders

RANEE C.

Yes, even Madeline sometimes wonders what guys think, so for our newest column we’ve enlisted our favorite y-chromosome bearing MIT junior, the strapping, manly, androgen-y Mr. Manuel Legrand to share with us some (non emotional) feelings on women’s fashion every once in a while.

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Babson student Ranee Cheung is quite the businesswoman, and her pantyhose company, RaneeC, has expanded tremendously since its launch in October 2010. The young enterpriser sat down with Hey, Madeline Editor-in-Chief Regina DeSantis to discuss her passion for nylon.

Thank you for meeting with me! What do you hope to gain from this interview with Hey, Madeline? How did you hear about us? I heard about you from a mutual friend of ours. I am looking to branch out with my pantyhose company and expand to other colleges, including Wellesley. When you’re selling stockings, you’re focusing on women, especially in our age group.

Where are you from originally? Did your surroundings affect your fashion choices? I’m from Hong Kong. I’ve lived there my whole life and still go back every summer and winter. Most of the girls in HK wear patterned tights, even when they’re just walking down the street. You show off your legs, but you’re still covered up.

Are you planning on branching out to include more items? Right now, no. I’m focusing on bringing in more styles for pantyhose. I want to see how the market reacts to this and expand to accessories.

How do you choose your web site models? You model too, right? I don’t model; I take the photographs with just a plain digital camera. But for my next shoot, my friend will be taking photos with a DSLR.

Where do you get the inspirations for your patterns? I don’t actually design. I find styles from different places, and I resell them.

Why did you choose to attend Babson rather than a fashion institute or art school? I never had a direction until I came to Babson. Business is ingrained in our daily life, and I want to create something on my own. Fashion is something that I like doing, even if I’m just browsing through trends. Fashion just hits me.

Who is your favorite designer? Valentino! I just watched his documentary. It’s all about “living the dream,” and I love it.

How successful has your online business been? I launched my company on October 1, 2010. On cam-pus, there are about 20 customers, all of whom purchase in different quantities.

How would you describe your personal style? I’m wearing my favorite outfit right now: a plain white shirt, a jacket, a belt, tights, and denim miniskirt. I almost changed my style because of my sister. She wears a lot of

dresses, so sometimes I wear dresses…with my tights, of course.

What advice do you have for other college women looking to start their own businesses? Just do it, and don’t be scared of any ob-stacles. Promotion is hard – it’s not easy reach-ing out to every student at Babson. It’s hard, but I’m trying to make my business more inclusive.

Interview has been condensed and edited.

visit www.raneec.com

Leggings, pantyhose, tights… men really wouldn’t be able to tell the differ-ence. We get the purpose, and they really could look fantastic with the right outfit, but, if possible, show those sexy legs! “Perfect, I can show them off in my fishnets!” you might think. I hate to break it to you, but fishnets in particular are not very appealing to men (except if you’re, say, a prime minister of Italy, or a fifty-something-year-old state senator). Pat-terns are acceptable, but we prefer solids; and try to avoid unnatural colors, like olive. If they’re pantyhose, stick to skin-colored or black. Next on the list are jeggings. Jeg-gings are what we call “body-type-spe-cific.” If you don’t know what that means, just YouTube a clip of Conan wearing jeg-gings and you’ll immediately understand. Not all hybrids are a good idea. Ligers? Great. Grapples? Not so much. The point is, if you don’t have the legs, don’t wear the jegs. As per every rule, there is an exception. Leather or pleather leggings…HOT DAMN! We’re all for those. Just watch those panty lines, and for God’s sake, no C-Toes, please!

MAN

hitting the pavement.

Feminine details meet classic vests and jackets for a modern look that’s Sinatra and Hepburn all at once.

style that caught our attention

I can’t pretend that anything I write will dis-suade you, my reader, from idolizing Chanel. I too adore anything black, tweed, quilted and chained. I wrote my first research paper on Coco Chanel in the fifth grade and made a black silk-lined skirt from Cha-nel textile when I was thirteen. C’est simple, j’adore Chanel. Nonetheless, I have mixed feelings about the fashion house’s recent Spring-Summer Haute Couture show that both bewildered and bewitched Parisian crowds on January 25. It was a mixture of truly unfor-tunate styling and exceptional final pieces. During the underwhelming first half of the show, I found myself questioning whether it should even be deemed “haute couture.” It’s taboo to match leggings with a dress; and drop-waist skirts and A-line flared jackets should never be used in the same sentence, let alone worn by the same model. Some other key pieces from the first half of the show included skinny-legged pants (some of which were sequined) paired with two-piece suits, and egg-shaped dresses with marshmallow tulle protrud-ing from the hem. Need I say more? Truth be told, there is an element of obscurity to most Chanel shows that adds a playful touch to the brand’s overall classic sophistication. In this show, however, these mismatched, unflattering elements ac-

complished nothing but to portray the models in over-styled, under-refined outfits. The only elements that save the beginning of the show from total revolt are the majestic color combinations of mauves, metallics, creams and blacks, and the lovely fabrics encrusted with crystals. In a nutshell, poor taste masked by fine textiles. I am not one to dwell on the past; and like the Chanel show, this column will end on a happy note. The minute I saw a white-crystal-encrusted, pink-satin-trimmed sheath dress turn the corner, I knew that grace and taste had returned to the runway. Although the second half of the show did feature a few more odd pairings, there were numerous extraordinary sepa-rates. The fabric was so luxurious and opulent, even Marie Antoinette would be envious. Some of the pieces looked like liquid crystal, cascading from the body in a loose, fluid silhouette. I am a stickler for details, and this show presented arguably the most exquisite em-bellishments I have ever seen in any collection. I quiver with envy at the privileged few who will soon walk the red carpet in the “hautest” dresses haute couture has to offer this season. -Helen

CHANELmixed feelings on Spring-Summer line from

1. LV and Rodarte paying homage to 1930s Shanghai glamour in their S/S 2011 collec-tions: both lines have created strik-ing abstractions of traditional Chinese dress by updat-ing the cut and exploring the line between modest and more risqué.

2 .Enjoying the glimpses of classic Hollywood glamour on red carpets; notably Mila Kunis’ Vera Wang and Dianna Agron in J. Mendel at the Golden Globes.

3. The rise of models defying the gender binary is a welcome change, such as the stunning transsexual Lea T, featured kissing Kate Moss on the cover of Love magazine and in a Givenchy campaign.

4. The Dynasty-esque sequined glamazon trend on red carpets lately. It’s overwhelming in both texture & volume – padded shoulders never suited anyone; this look should have remained in the eighties.

5. Celebrity perfumes – seriously, enough already. With the release of Katy Perry’s Purr, with the predictably tacky cat-themed bottle and advertisements, and Lady Gaga’s an-nouncement that her upcoming scent will be influenced by blood and semen, it seems time for celebrities to retire from the industry.

THE BAD, &

THE GOOD,

THE UGGS.

GLAMOUR

because the world outside is grey, because midterms are impending, and because maybe I’m feeling a bit drab, I’ve decided it’s the perfect moment to infuse my style with a bit of old-fashioned, silver-screen

Madeline

GLAMOURMadeline

I’m not going to sit at my battle-scarred laptop and pretend that I am a style maven. I do not plan to become a designer when I finally decide to grow up. I missed Mercedez-Benz FashionWeek, and to be perfectly honest, this English major in Brooks Brothers Oxford is still disillusioned over the ruin of the English language, and how spaces between words is becoming “so last century.” I recently chopped off my hair at Salon G20 on Newbury Street, have not been a size zero since I was fourteen, and disguise my laziness with a wardrobe of Oxford shirts, fitted jeans, and navy blue blazers – a far cry from the Ameri-can Apparel neon colors, Ke$ha “garbage-chic,” and somewhat (I’m sorry to report) cheap-looking Kardashian-esque tunics and leggings that I see just a bit too often.

Now that my lack of qualifications has been thoroughly laid bare, here is my point: I really do not believe that to be truly “fashionable” one must follow trends or purchase completely new wardrobes with each cycling season. Not every person does this, but every now and again, while walking to class, I see a Wellesley student with just a bit more swing in her step, possibly rocking an outrageously colored pair of pants or dangerously high heels, or maybe rainbow Mohawk hair and incredibly beautiful tattoo designs, and I have to smile. Of course, most of these individuals probably would not consider them-selves runway aficionados, either.

Hey, Madeline is not here to tell you what we think you should wear or what we think you should do. Quite frankly, I really do not care what you are wearing, and I care even less if you follow the up-to-the-minute fluctuations in style trends. When I started this magazine in October 2009, my intention was to shine a light on those who show their personalities, their moods, and their creativity via clothing. The way you dress on the outside reflects the way you feel about yourself, and no matter what you are wearing, you should own your style. You should know that you’re a knockout in sweatpants, hot pants, and everything in between. This magazine is not for conformists or followers, nor is it attempting to masquerade as a bible of all things Vogue. Hey, Madeline is as difficult to label as the individuals it showcases – and its amazing staff.

Speaking of the staff, I cannot begin to thank the newly-formed layout team (especially Kara Bernert), who rose to the impossible task of creating a permanent framework for Hey, Madeline. I would also like to thank the Executive Board for their creativity, the photographers for their vision, the models for proving that beauty and brains are not mutually exclusive, Ekin Erar for the cover art, and of course the writers for their attitudes! I will never be able to repay my mother for her financial, emotional, and artistic support for this endeavor, and our next issue, generously commissioned by the Davis Museum, will feature the work of West African artist El Anatsui. I also extend my deep-est gratitude to both SOFC and SOAC, and am indebted to the SHEs, Ethos, and Punch’s Alley for their willingness to collaborate. We at Hey, Madeline are excited to announce two new organizations with whom we will be working: the store Essentia and blog College Fashionista. Last but never, ever least, thank you Hallie Santo for being the glue that has held Hey, Madeline together, even when everything seemed to be falling apart.

As for you, dear readers, I hope you know, even during the worst of times, just how special you are…and do not forget to wear it well (whatever “it” may be).

Regina DeSantisFounder and Editor-in-Chief

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