Archives for July 2012

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is showing a temporary exhibit called Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, which shows the fashion styles of Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada. Both are of Italian origin but both come from different eras. The exhibit is very interesting because you learn about their styles of fashion. Schiaparelli’s style focused on the bod, or “waist up” because in her era, women were expected to sit in cafes and only their top half of their body would be seen. Prada’s style was to focus on the bottom half, or “waist down”, because women were working hard and walking around, and used her style to give an expression of modernity. Schiaparelli’s line of clothing focused on elaborate tops and jackets with plain skirts and plain shoes. Prada’s line of clothing focused on beautiful skirts or dresses embroidered with sequins, mostly on the hem, and the exhibit showed a whole case of her shoes. The exhibit showed the clothing based on several themes. They were “Waist Up/Waist Down,” “Ugly Chic,” “Hard Chic,” “Naif Chic,” and “Classical Body,” “Exotic Body,” and” Surreal Body.”

            In my opinion, I love most of their clothing because in their styles, I can feel that both designers designed their clothes to help women feel and have power. However, I really disliked Prada’s shoes. They were very bulky and had unique “hippy” colors that I feel would just destroy the beauty of the clothes. I also disliked some of Schiaparelli’s hats because I felt that there were too decorations on them. I understand how in their respective era, they were trying to express their “modern feminism” but in our current society, their fashion styles, in my opinion, are more masculine than feminine.

            This exhibit is open until August 19, 2012 so if you live in New York City, you better take a look at this exhibit! As a student, it’s free to go, as long as you show them your student ID, you can probably use your high school ID, and by the way the prices to enter are “suggested”. It doesn’t matter your gender, or your age, you will enjoy this exhibit and appreciate it for its unique beauty.

Yesenia Ramos, 17, is attending her last year at H.S for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice. She enjoys playing basketball and won a trophy for MVP (most valuable player). She stopped playing basketball because of a knee injury. She wants to become a journalist like her cousin, who is now editor of LATINA MAGAZINE. Even though, Yesenia been through some struggles in her academic life, she knows that noting can push her away from her dreams. She believes that writing is the best way to express your emotions and when there is no one to talk to, she can grab a pen and paper.

 Born on June 20, 1995, Lisa Chung grew up in New York City all her life. She lives with her mother and younger brother in an apartment in lower east side. Lisa currently attends Baruch College campus High school and is taking a college now course in Baruch College during the summer. She is part of the I Heart My Community service club and the badminton club in school. Her interests are watching asian dramas and reading teenage fantasy fiction novels. There is a Library right behind where she lives so it wouldn’t be surprising to find her walking down the shelves of books in the library looking for interesting reading books. She enjoys starting off her day having a steaming cup of green tea in the morning and drink water throughout the day.

Vicky Chan was born on a snowy Christmas eve. She grew up in a suburban Brooklyn neighborhood and later at age 9 moved to Manhattan, lower east side. She is currently a rising senior in Baruch College Campus High School and is now attending summer writing classes at Baruch College Now in hopes of pursing a writing career. 
She loves to read and would spend every waking moment reading if she could. You would find her reading whenever she has any spare time between classes, on the train or at home. Her favorite types of books are adventures, mystery, paranormal, fantasy, fiction or any book she can get her hands on.
With her head constantly up in the clouds she is a very clumsy person. She would stare into space for hours dreaming up stories of dragons, magic and heroes or heroines in her little world of imagination.

Daniel Dornbaum is currently in his final year of studies at Baruch College Campus High School and resides on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He is a contributor to The Paw Print (Baruch’s College Now newspaper), and is the editor of the sports section of his high school newspaper. He enjoys running through Central Park, and along the Coney Island shoreline. He will always know the score of the most recent Yankee game, and hopes to one day broadcast all of their games. Along with playing three varsity sports, he is the president of the student government, and has a very long and arduous year ahead of him.

Have you ever walked down the street and accidentally bump into a small Asian girl with nerdy glasses who keeps looking down at her feet and whispers a soft “sorry” and quickly shuffles her feet to get away? Well, that would be Melanie Ng. Melanie is a rising junior at Stuyvesant High School (haha get all of your laughs out right now) and doesn’t cheat on tests. She loves listening to music and plays viola in one of her school’s multiple orchestras. She is also a rookie on the school’s Ultimate Frisbee team, Stuyvesant Sticky Fingers, and is also a sub on the girl’s golf team. Yes, she’s a noob. She told me to tell you all that she gives you permission to call her one. She enjoys learning history and reading European literature, especially Shakespeare and Goethe. She despises science and math, especially chemistry.
Melanie is shy and timid around strangers. However when she can find someone like her and can communicate well with, she opens up and you will be able to see the real her. Loud, obnoxious, observant, and busy, she will always have time for her friends. She loves animals, especially dogs, and loves to travel the east coast to visit new places. She enjoys going to school early in the morning to watch the beautiful sunrise and to enjoy the quietness and tranquility of the world. 

She is a huge fan of Taeyang and his abs. She also despises G-Dragon and his weird hair styles. Both are from the K-pop group Big Bang. She is also a big fan of Lee Hung-Ki from F.T. Island. Melanie is a fan of good, unique, beautiful voices. She doesn’t really care about how famous a group is because of their physical appearance as long as their music is beautiful and pleasing to the ears. She also enjoys watching horror movies like “Hannibal” and “The Mist” and “The Omen”.

At the moment, she is attending the Baruch College Now Summer 2012 program. She is attending the program because she wants to improve her writing skills and wants to meet new people. She wants to attending Boston University or Columbia and to pursue majors in neurology and ethnomusicology.

Alison Kwong was born on October 20,1995 and attends Baruch College Campus High School. She will be a senior this coming September 2012 and graduate from High School the following year, 2013. Alison attended Pre-K when she was four years old before being placed into elementary school. For elementary school, she went to Benjamin Altman P.S 42 and continued her school life in Wagner Middle school. Alison is currently 16 years old and will be turning 17 in a few months. She lives in Brooklyn, Fulton St. and had been living there ever since she was born. Alison is highly interested in the medical field and wish to be able to attend a medical college/university. In her high school life, her favorite classes was writing arts ,Pre-Calculus and Art class. Alison had done a couple of volunteer works over the past years in high school. She volunteered to tutor young children’s at an after school program and translated paper work at an immigration center. Alison is currently attending a summer college program at Baruch College.

Karen Liang spent most of her childhood in a small neighborhood in Jackson Heights, Queens. She later moved to Lower East Side, Manhattan to complete her final year of elementary school and later continued on to middle and high school. She is currently a rising senior in high school.

Jia Min Zhao is your typical high school student. She is a rising junior at Brooklyn Technical High School. Currently, she is attending the College Now program at Baruch College. She loves watching Korean dramas even though she does not understand everything. She is trying to learn their language, though. She is a huge fan of KPOP and G-Dragon, a member of a band called Big Bang. She really idolizes him because of his unique styles and great composition in music.
She loves Chemistry but is in the BioEngineering major. This is because her mother does not want her to study chemistry, fearing that she would exploded herself in an experiment.
She enjoys reading books on her free time, mostly Sci-Fi or Dystopian books. She is quite shy around strangers, but very open to her friends. When she grows up, she would like to travel around the world. She hates the color purple, not because she does not support gays, but because she is just sick of the color. Speaking about supporting or not supporting gays, Jia Min is neutral about this issue because it does not affect her.
Her friends call her Fish because of a picture that was taken of her during Junior High, where her cheeks looked bloated. (It carried on to High School.) Her friends also think that she is bi-polar, but it is just that everyone has their good and bad days. Her friends also think she is crazy. They claim to know that she IS crazy.
She lives in Staten Island because she dislikes city life. She believes it is noisy and dirty. She prefers to live in suburbs, where houses are surrounded by white picket fences and the skies are clean from air pollution.

Allegra Kogan is a 16 year old Junior at School of the Future located in Gramercy Park, Manhattan. Focused on web design, Allegra uses photoshop and her extensive knowlege of the internet when she is hired for jobs. Generally you can find Allegra at her home in Riverdale, New York on the couch with her laptop and teacup yorkshire terrier named Sid Vicious. When Allegra is not at home, she is hanging out with her friends in various places throughout the city. In September Allegra will begin touring colleges, including her dream school the University of Pennsylvania. Allegra’s blog will serve as an outlet to update people about her daily life, as well as interesting things she stumbles upon in the city that never sleeps.