Printer-friendly versionStreet: You're the head of The WALK project. How did you get invovled?
Lea Artis: I'm co-president of DZine 2 Show, the fashion society on campus. We see ourselves as encompassing everything fashion for the student body, and we thought our next best move would be into fashion journalism and so we founded the magazine The WALK. I'm the executive editor for the magazine along with my many other duties for Dzine like director of our fashion show.
Street: Has the first issue been a success?
LA: I'd say it was a success in that we got it out there. We are learning as we go. You know what they say about your first time.
Street: What do they say about your first time?
LA: [laughs] It's a learning experience you could say.
Street: Can you tell us about the launch party?
LA: We like to do things big and fabulous. We're a fashion magazine so it's in our nature - it's in my nature personally. With the party Walk the Walk we went on the motif of "You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?" We had a huge cocktail party downtown and tried to make it a big, fabulous red carpet event. We took a lot of pictures that will be featured in out next issue. We had a walk-off contest that featured amateur models as well as our previous models with a huge cover unveiling. It was a lot of fun.
Street: Was there a winner of the walk-off?
LA: There were multiple winners of the walk-off. We had two girl winners and two guy winners.
Street: How were they determined?
LA: Me and my co-director Christina Celuzza judged the walk-off as best as we could, splitting it up into people with experience versus amateurs.
Street: And what do they win?
LA: They are receiving a free photo shoot with our head photographer, Zoe Grossman.
Street: Will the money you earned go towards funding the magazine?
LA: Definitely. We need a lot of money for the magazine. As you can imagine, it is quite an expenditure, but we are funding it through a lot of different initiatives.
Street: How do you find the models?
LA: We do a huge scouting event on campus every year in January. This year will be a little different because we'll be looking for magazine models as well as runway models for our shows. We're going to be doing kind of an invite-only event for auditions.
Street: Will I get an invite?
LA: Uh. if you're lucky.
Street: What are the criteria to get an invite?
LA: You have to be in some way attractive or appealing as a model. You have to have a look, be able to walk, have a certain, I guess, je ne sais quoi about yourself - an "it" quality, I guess you could say.
Street: So how many people are you looking for?
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