Styling expression at Fashion Club

The Richland Fashion Club is an active opportunity for Dallas College students looking to demonstrate their enthusiasm in timeless vogue.
Operating in its third year, the club provides a campus-wide forum for students to express their personal style, discover new trends, gain extracurricular experience and join a community that shares a fascination with fashion.
Richland students Nathan Solomon and Abdel-Rahman Hatim, co-presidents of the Richland Fashion Club, spoke about their inspiration behind leading the club and the various opportunities present for students interested in joining.
“The fashion club is just a group of people who are into fashion,” said Solomon. “Fashion is everywhere. I feel like it’s a lifestyle. A lot of people are into fashion, but they don’t
know where to start or how to grow, and so it’s just a community for us to grow in our taste and our identity.”
The club, which encourages constructive discussion and seeking inspiration between members, aims to help students fit into their own sense of style and lead them closer to being uniquely themselves.
“We teach about color theory and proportions, and there are a lot of people who dress really well in our club,” said Hatim.
We’ll improve and I’ll see something you like, so it’s an exchange of ideas.”
Although it was largely inactive last semester due to a lack of members in leadership roles, the club already boasts a large audience and is filled with new students who have very little prior experience with the community.
“New experiences are always inherently cool,” said Hatim, describing the involvement in the club for students interested in joining.
“You’re bound to gain something. We have a lot of people who are knowledgeable, and they’ll teach you about Vivienne Westwood, or people in the ‘30s, so if you’re new to fashion and you’re interested in trying to get better, then the Fashion Club is a good place to start.”
According to Solomon and Hatim, the Fashion Club has just finished recruiting models and designers and is looking for a venue to host its upcoming fashion show on April 26,
which will be held in Dallas. More details are set to be released soon.
The co-presidents also discussed the significance of personal expression to them.
“The opposite of depression is expression,” said Solomon. “The ability to express yourself makes you feel more hope, makes you feel more real, makes you feel more happy, more delighted and just more alive.”
“There’s an ethos of rebellion,” Hatim said. “Going against the grain, like in higher fashion, is more sophisticated. The more you express yourself, the better you’ll get to know
your own self, and I feel like ultimately, you’ll feel better about yourself.”
The Richland Fashion Club hosts weekly meetings on Wednesdays at various locations announced through their Discord server. Students interested in joining should stop by the Office of Student Life & Engagement for more information.