Evelyn, an Asian person, wears her hair long with blond highlights at the bottom, minimal makeup, gold hoop earrings, a gold bracelet on both wrists, and a simple gold necklace with a small pendant. She wears a sleeveless diagonal striped shirt, blue jeans, white boots, and wears a manual camera around her neck. She sits cross-legged and rests her elbows on her knees.
Evelyn Rude is a queer AAPI Gen-Z creative based in Austin, Texas. Her focuses are photography, creative directing, and content creation for social media platforms. Her heritage as a Vietnamese American with Japanese culture from her adopted parents can be seen in her photos series and creative work such as K of Koi and Outside the Gold fishbowl. She uses her creativity as a voice for the AAPI and queer community telling her story through her work. Currently she is pursuing her journalism degree and is heavily involved in creative direction and story telling. She finds it important that her work has diversity and is able to express a story or a message for her clients, herself and the communities she is involved in.
Evelyn has been involved in working with Gen-Z creative agencies such as Adolescent Content, Fly on Wings Agency and personal freelancing. She has been involved in New York Fashion Week working with designers such as Claudia Li and is involved in providing content for Rice Spice Magazine. Her work has been published in magazines such as Mob Journal, Selin Magazine, and Vigour. Outside of photography, Evelyn works with companies as a micro influencer and has been partnered with Mejuri and Outdoor Voices.
DAPPERQ’S 7TH ANNUAL QUEER NEW YORK FASHION WEEK SHOW IN BROOKLYN MUSEUM
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With the world slowly normalizing back to social settings from Covid-19, DapperQ finally emerged from hiatus after two years of no fashion shows.
Returning to the Brooklyn Museum for their seventh annual show, the energy was exciting and lively on Thursday night. The runway was placed in the middle of the vast room with the skylight glistening on it. Guests were slowly coming in dressed to the nines. The anticipation of the return of DapperQ was immense. The wait was over after two years.
As the lights dimmed, the crowd of over 1,000 guests hushed. Opening the show, Gay hip hop artist Cakes De Killa left the crowd in awe as he strutted the runway with his two backup dancers. For the return of DapperQ, there were 8 designers including project runway’s very own Hester Sunshine with her label debut Hesta.
The show was packed full of performative art, a cheering crowd, and support from all sides of the room. With 70 models representing the 8 designers, the show was a lengthy one. None the less, the models were diverse from non binary models to only transgender models walking for Transguy Supply. The youngest model bring 10 years old was Noella McMaher.
Featured designers:
Cake De Killa opening, two Black models hold hands. The model on the left wears sunglasses, a black patent leather bomber jacket with white stripes on the bottom and cuffs, and other white lettering and images. They wear an animal print skirt and white socks. The model on the right wears yellow, blue, red, and black plaid in a button down shirt worn open and a kilt-styled skirt that hangs at their knees. They wear black socks with white stripes and several silver necklaces. Both of the models’ hair is worn short and blonde.
Freeman by Micky, the same Black models in the previous image wearing the same ensembles kiss one another. The model in plaid holds the side of their walking partner’s head.
Lessur, a Black model wears their hair red and shoulder length, with the shoulders and arms covered in sheer black and a shiny silver dress that is cut high on the thighs and low between the knees. They hold a metallic purse and wear tall black lace-up leather boots. Their eyeshadow is shimmery.
Hesta, a white model sits in a wheelchair wearing red eye makeup, red hair barrettes, fuzzy yarn on their arms to their wrist and high waisted red, white, black, and green plaid pants. They wear a sheer black top and black and white Converse-style sneakers. They wear their hair medium brown and also have a brown beard.