Josie Collier
Executive Features Editor
Senior Dani Arensdorf will make a name for herself in the fashion and design industry when she shows her line “2001” in the 2019 Los Angeles Fashion Week.
L.A. Fashion Week is an organization that highlights influential artists and designers in the fashion community. Arts Hearts Fashion, puts on L.A. Fashion Week, New York Fashion Week and Miami Swim Week. Arensdorf received a spot in the show after reaching out to the production company and speaking with the head of the company, Erik Rosete.
“My [design] teacher has connections and he knows the guy that runs L.A. Fashion Week and the production company,” Arensdorf said. “I volunteered at L.A. Fashion Week in November, [and] I didn’t have an interview [for the show,] but I knew [Erik Rosete] before and kept in contact since I volunteered last year.”
Arensdorf’s first experience as an L.A. Fashion Week volunteer included steaming the models’ clothes and helping set up the runway. Since Arensdorf knew some of the designers at the event, she helped them and their models get ready for the show backstage.
“It was a really cool opportunity because I got to go backstage,” Arensdorf said. “Going to a show is one thing, but going backstage and actually seeing everything that goes on behind the scenes is really cool.”
Arensdorf’s love for fashion began at a very young age. She took design and fashion classes when she was younger and is currently enrolled in a design class at SoCal Regional Occupational Center (SCROC), which is located in Torrance and allows high school students to specialize in a career they want to pursue in the future. Arensdorf’s design class teacher, Kenneth Chang, gave her the connection to the L.A. Fashion Week community.
“I have been doing fashion for a really long time, [and] I’ve always loved making clothes and designing,” Arensdorf said. “I have been sewing for a while so that was always something I loved but I think that I have just always loved fashion [and] creating stuff.”
The line that Arensdorf has been working on to debut during L.A. Fashion Week is called “2001.” The theme is very futuristic and uses a lot of geometric and asymmetrical shapes in the clothing designs. Arensdorf’s inspiration for the lines came from Tokyo fashion trends and designers such as John Galliano and Tom Ford.
“Fashion is a way to show a different side of you,” Arensdorf said. “ [Fashion] just inspires me all of the time and seeing stuff like things in the world, people wearing different things, or seeing people on the streets [and] also places, things and food inspire me.”
Arensdorf hopes to pursue a career in fashion and design in the future, and one day be a creative director of a famous brand or her own brand. Before creating her own brand, Arensdorf wants to become more experienced in the business side of the fashion world.
“I am trying to start my own brand which will hopefully be in the next few years,” Arensdorf said. “I want to get experience first [and in] college [I want] to study fashion design, fashion marketing and the business side of it too is going to be really important.”
L.A. Fashion week will take place from March 22-24 at The Majestic in Downtown Los Angeles, California.
“Fashion is just such a cool thing,” Arensdorf said. “Everything about it is so unique, and everyone can express themselves differently. I love how you literally just be yourself.”
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