Fashion GEEK FASHION: Connect to your Caprican Roots!

November 11, 2010 - 11:42 am

Tauron smoker

It’s been over two millenia since the Colonials and the Cylons first inhabited our world, becoming the catalysts for humanity as we know it, but we continue to discover more about our past. As recently as January 2009, scientists have uncovered a lot of information about life on the colonies before the first Cylon War. In addition to the discovery of the connection between the ancient holoband and cylons as we know them, we’ve also learned a great deal about what they wore and how they lived. This week, a relic was discovered in an archeological dig in Tunisia, a briefcase that contained, among other things, a fashion magazine called Caprican Woman that was surprisingly well-preserved. The cover tells us that it is the “Tauron Issue”, and one of the photo spreads contrasts the differences in women’s fashion on Caprica and Tauron. Below, you’ll find a scan of the surviving pages of the photo spread.

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Fashion Geek Fashion: Tara Reich Brings Sci-Fi Sensibility to Couture

August 18, 2010 - 10:38 am

Tara Reich in Blue Box Dress

Generally, I don’t expect to discover talented fashion designers while visiting the blogs of my favorite comic book writers.  Yet, when I read Paul Cornell’s account of CONvergence 2010, several photos he’d posted of girls in Doctor Who-inspired dresses caught my eye. A 1960s-style TARDIS dress?! I wanted one immediately.

In this way, I discovered the work of Tara Reich.

Reich’s family is in the antiques business, and early exposure to items ranging from space toys to Roseville pottery sparked a fascination with Old World and contemporary design aesthetics.  However, it wasn’t until Reich, an avid fangirl, got involved in cosplay that she saw fashion design as a career option.  She graduated from the fashion design program at Columbia College, Chicago in 2009, and won the Chicago Fashion Foundation Scholarship that year.

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