BPR Field Reporter Tina Guthmann attended Sam's show in Boston and sends us this report - thanks Tina!
Sam Donovan, runner-up in the first season of
Lifetime’s Under the Gunn, presented his collection as a part of the
Fashionably Late series at Boston’s Liberty Hotel on November 5. Sam is a native of the Boston area, so it’s
always fun to support him.
This time, Sam presented what I like to call
a ‘sporty glam’ look. We know that
athletic wear is the new casual wear for those who work out (and those who
don’t) so I was happy to see Sam’s interpretation. He takes it up a notch and makes it dressy,
too. His inspiration was a Twitter
argument that attacked Serena Williams for looking masculine and resulted in
author JK Rowling coming to her rescue.
How is that for the start of a collection?
As Sam states,"It just felt like this amazing,
empowering moment that challenged the idea of what it meant to "look like
a woman". There have been so many instances challenging what is
"womanly", and could feel the fury that Rowling and Williams must
have felt at that comment. So I wanted both a sporty feeling, but the look of a
warrior, so I looked to Furiosa and Mad Max for a little bit of edge; yet
another challenge to the conventional idea of femininity.
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