Anamaria Luna's ePortfolio

Anamaria Luna values family, respect, and loyalty. Luna has worked on several creative and fashion forward projects that will help in future career endeavors. Luna wants to remind women all over the world that comes from different background and are different shapes and sizes, that they are beautiful and can be successful at anything they want. Luna believes that it is important to work hard but also enjoy life and live in the moment and surround yourself with positive things and people. Through spreading kindness and acceptance for everyone, and compassion, Luna wants to make a difference in lives and be a positive impact to all.

Anamaria Luna stands for women empowerment, acceptance for all, and positivity. Luna’s brand stands to show that you can achieve whatever is you set your heart and mind to as long as you put in hard work and dedication. Luna is hard working, a team leader, empathetic, companionate, and always eager to learn new things. As someone who is always eager to learn new things, Luna is excited to expand her experience and knowledge through her future career endeavors.

STRENGTHS: Great team leader skills and great multi-tasking skills.
WEAKNESS: Overthinking and worrying.
OPPERTUNITIES: Obtaining a career in a successful field that will financially support the start to her own business and help support loved ones.
THREATS: Other college graduates that are also applying for jobs and have more connections.

Objectives:

o To obtain a corporate job.
o To increase her civic engagement experience
o To own multiple investments.
o To begin her own company.
o To have her business donate to multiple charities.

Goals:

o To modify resume and cover letter and begin applying.
o To begin volunteering
o To begin putting money in small investments.
o To create ideas and begin a business plan
o To find and make a list of charities that mean a lot to her

Objectives:

o To obtain her Baccalaureate Degree in June.
o To travel after obtaining a career for at least five years.
o To complete her business plan by the end of the summer.
o To get a summer internship
o To get more fit and live a healthier lifestyle

Goals:

o To pass all her classes this semester.
o To make a list and budget plans for future destination adventures
o To work on each step of her business plan each week
o To begin applying for summer internships
o Begin a work-out routine and healthier meal plans

Fashion being inspired by religion

 

             Designers get inspiration from almost anything and the most unexpected things (Reich-Storer, 2016).  In The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York exhibit: Heavenly Bodies, religious symbols inspire the creativity of designers like Gianni Versace. For many years religion has been an inspiration for garments in the fashion world.

Religion has always been a part of fashion throughout history, and Gianni Versace is one designer who has displayed that. Versace’s Fall 1997/98 haute couture collection shows various gold mesh dresses with cross embellish pieces on them (The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2018). One specific dress from this collection is a gold mesh and leather dress with amber appliqued crystals placed as a cross. This collection was the last collecting Gianni Versace did and debuted before he was murdered. Gianni was always inspired by his surroundings but, he was also fascinated with ancient Greece and Rome. According to Versace (2018), his collection “revealed his appreciation of ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantine crosses, madonnas, 18^thcentury court style silhouettes, and 1920s and 1930s themes of the Vienna Secession, Vionnet, and Madame Gres”. One can see the several crosses embellished on a lot of the clothing in Versace’s Fall 1997 collection.

The cross is an iconic symbol in the Christian religion. The cross is widely worn and cherished by Christians because of what it represents. The cross first symbolized the death of Jesus Christ because that’s where they crucified him and killed him. People were scared to show their crosses in risk of being punished, but after Constantine became emperor he abolished any type of punishment because he believed that the cross was a symbol of the son of god (Roberts, 2011). This lead to the reinforcement of Christianity in the Byzantine Period by Constantine.

The Byzantine period was a major influence for Versace when creating this collection. During the Byzantine period the emperor Constantine reinforced Christianity not for the act of good but out of fear of the power of god (Crouch, 2017). The colors used during this time represented different meanings. Gold in the Byzantine period represented purity, royalty, and the glorious life after death (The Meaning of colors Symbols in Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance Painting, 2017).Gold can also be a representation of wealth and riches.

Gianni Versace’s Fall 1997 represented how designers use the history religion to create beautiful haute couture pieces. Versace’s fascination and appreciation for the past, and historical religious empires themed throughout his garments. The colors Versace used were also influential colors during the Byzantine period, they represent the purity and wealth of the empire. The religious Christian symbol like the cross also made debuts throughout his collection. The representation of the Son of God and Jesus Christ was important to the Byzantine emperor Constantine and it is style a symbolic artifact to the Christians of today. The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art New York exhibit: Heavenly Bodiescontinues to display garments that represent the history of religion and how designers used their symbols to create a theme in their garments.

 

 

References

 

Crouch, C. (2017, July 26). Religion in the Byzantine Empire. Retrieved from http://www.byzconf.org/religion-byzantine-empire/

 

Evening Dress Fall 1997 Haute Couture (2018) Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81147

 

“Versace, Gianni.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Retrieved June 14, 2018 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gianni-versace

 

Reich-Storer, K. (2016, September 22). Where do fashion designers get their inspiration?? Retrieved from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/shopping-on-mount-street/where-fashion-designers-get-inspiration/

 

Roberts, M. S. (2011, September 12). The Cross. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/symbols/cross_1.shtml

 

The Meaning of colors Symbols in Byzantine, Gothic and Renaissance Painting. (2017). Retrieved from http://www.historyofpainters.com/colors.htm

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