The mission of the National Arts Club Fashion Committee is to help educate, enlighten, celebrate, and spread a good word about this fantastic art form we call fashion.

The National Arts Club is comprised of nearly twenty committees, ranging from Culinary Arts to Architecture. Fashion, although can be seen as the most non-useful and more frivolous of the bunch, can, however, find itself crossing paths in a practical manner with each of the whole. For example, fashion photography has become quite important in the world of still imagery, documentaries and films are dedicated to and depict fashion, there are buildings designed specifically to house a certain collection, museums built devoted to fashion, novels written for the sake of fashion, fashionable drinks and music that dedicate many verses to a said designer or style, there are balls and dance parties produced, all with anticipation of what people are wearing. Shakespeare would mean so much less without the costumes, and oh, the fabric! Red carpets for awards ceremonies and the like have all become a new kind of runway for actors and other industry types. There is even a way the fashion crowd "eats", or nibbles as an associate calls it- (I along with some of my friends and others are an exception to this rule). Whether you are considered in fashion or past season, from uniform wearers to exhibitionists, you are still a part of this realm of art where everyday we all figure out how to cover or minimally cover the best canvas on earth: Our bodies. We cannot escape it even if we tried. Even those who sequester themselves away from general society create their own sense of style, because to be creative is to be human. Fashion is EVERYONE and EVERYWHERE.

We in the fashion committee invite you to join along, celebrate and spread a good word about this very practical, universally and eternally relevant art form - for if clothing ceased to be made, where would we all be?

Welcome,
Chrishaunda Lee
Fashion Committee Chair