The Art Institute of California Inland Empire location hosted its third annual fashion Empire scholarship fundraiser and student design competition fashion show on Satruday, June 11th, 2011 at the Million Air hanger in San Bernardino.
Ticket sales go towards a scholarships for the school's Fashion Design and Fashion & Retail Management Programs. The Art Institute of California – Inland Empire Fashion Design students competed to earn a Grand Prize Scholarship of $2,500. The Second Place winner earned a $1,000 Scholarship.
This years theme was Jame's Bond's Casino Royale and was held in a hanger for private jet planes. The center of the hanger had a raised platform for the runway. Off to the left side was a casino with Craps and Blackjack tables. Attendees gambled with play money in large bills. The gambler with the most money at the end of the event won a prize.
They had a photo booth where you could grab a fake pistol or other props and pose with the Robert Delgadillo illustration cut outs. The James Bond character and red headed Bond Girl. The Bond caricature looked like a young Sean Connery.
The food being served on silver platters by waiters swarming the place was fantastic. From filet-mignon to delectable deserts.
A special showcase featured the couture designs Project Runway designer Michael Costello. There was a pre fashion show performance by America's Best Dance Crew Season 4 winners: We are Heroes. Macy Gray was was the headliner. Her perfomance was enthusiastic and energetic.
“At 32 MY GIRLFRIEND DRESSES ME LIKE A 17 YEAR OLD”
by Rolando Ramirez
Growing older isn't only hard on women, it's difficult for men to accept it also. Nobody wants to get older, it sucks! Everything hurts, we have to watch what we eat, if we have any hair left we have to comb it, but we all strive to enter our aging with dignity.
Getting past our twenty's, having kids, marriage, watching our metabolism slowly come to a grinding halt all signal a need for readjustment and reevaluation. We begin to see things differently. We set aside certain dreams that never transpired and focus more on the one's that did. We ground ourselves, adapt, and conform to the compromise of what we wished to be in life and what we were able to achieve.
It's a slow and grueling process because deep inside we all feel we grew up way to quick and resent the way we spent the time we did have. We could have all done and we could have all been so much more, but taking naps, dancing, playing video games, and just hanging out felt so right at the time.
As a gender we deal with our “coming of age” differently from women. We poke fun at it. We build up a tolerance for it. If we are getting fatter our friends lightly jest about it. . . daily, repetitively and for the rest of our lives!
Feeling a little insecure becasue you are starting to look a bit thin on the once glorious mane of rocker hair? No problem once your friends find out. It's there job to gather up enough insults and jokes, and then yell them, email them, text them, post them until balding can no longer possibly bother you.
You grow calluses or get new friends at the support group. We're guys, having a sense of self awareness and being confident is essential. The goal is to know our flaws, accept them, and be confident despite them. Put simply, learn to move on. It's expected from a “guys guy”, a “dude's dude”, a “manly man”. To veer from, that is to break guy rules, codes, and etiquette.
That's why a group of real guys out for a drink laugh at the head to toe walking billboard for “Ed Hardy” at the bar or the 40 year old with a 32 waist and size 40 "Ecko" pants. Sadly enough there is an updated addition to this group the 32 year old skater/emo guy, Me!
I know you're asking, how did I “Mr. Guy's guy” end up in this predicament? Well it started with a pair of slightly tight, not completely skinny jeans my girlfriend gave me for my last birthday. The pants looked good on me, but guess what? She thought they didn't look good with my, at the time, current t-shirt and shoe selection. So what came next was a small invasion of v-necks, bright polo's, and plaid button ups. They were followed by vans, and of course tighter jeans.
At the zenith of my discombobulation what stared back from the mirror was (starting from the bottom) a pair of teal vans, a gray pair of Levis 514 (super skinny), a deep V t-shirt joined by a vibrant colored big square plaid shirt, a red NY Yankees "New Era" flat bill fitted cap, and yes, the iconic wooden rosary with the matching “I LOVE BOOBIES” rubber bracelet. She had turned me into a 32 year old 17 year old, and I didn't like what I'd become.
Get Savvy in Corona
by Rachel Pisano
Boutique shops in the Inland Empire were once difficult to find. Now in every city or community you can find a great boutique clothing store.
In Corona, Sumthin Savvy, takes boutique shopping above and beyond by incorporating a full service salon and spa. Sumthin Savvy is truly a one-stop-shop.
Located at the Shops at Dos Lagos in Corona, Sumthin Savvy provides an all-inclusive experience.
You can get your hair and nails done, a spray tan, a little touch of Botox and a cute outfit all without traversing the southland freeways. With nearly a decade of business under their fashionable belt and with the ebb and flow of the economy, Sumthin Savvy has expanded their inventory to include great on trend pieces at an affordable price.
Featured as winner of Best Women’s Boutique on the Inland Empire’s HOTLIST, Sumthin Savvy is a boutique that keeps the foot traffic coming by catering to its customer’s needs and like owner, Adrienne, says, “We are like family.”
Sumthin Savvy
2790 Cabot Drive Suite 145
Corona, CA 92883
(951) 277-2909
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