New Facebook Page!

ECO-Style Student Association

 

 

As promised before, here is the official page for the new club in the Human Ecology program I started! Check out the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/71497095@N03/6463422903/in/photostream. If you would like to have a closer look at the detailed information rather than a screen shot of the page, you can go on the actual facebook link and like our page to show your support and find out regular news about events for ESSA at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/ECO-Style-Student-Association-ESSA/278946235456360.


With this new facebook page, the ESSA group is hoping to spread a compelling message to the majority of the University of Alberta campus and the wider Edmonton community about fashion sustainability. Not only are we hoping for our message to be heard around the community, but to inspire people to become involved in our events and in chats about fashion sustainability through facebook posts which will hopefully influence them to create an active habit to think ‘green’ in their personal lives. Facebook is evidently one of the top sources of social media in today's world. I know all my friends, and most of my family and acquaintances have a facebook profile! It creates an easier and faster way to communicate to many people at once which is helpful when trying to promote a short notice event or share interesting facts. It also a beneficial way for others to discover ESSA’s page through other friends that have liked our profile by showing the recent actions in their newsfeed. Since we categorized our page as a University group, people that are in University will find it much quicker than people that are not because they belong to the same facebook category. It all interconnects one way or another! Another helpful factor is when typing the word ‘eco’ in the search tool for people that are interested in sustainability, ECO-Style Student Association shows up under that category automatically! With that said, I can confident believe that this advertisement will easily communicate information about our club and the fashion movement we are trying to start.

Some other ‘eco’ or ‘sustainable’ groups I found while typing in ‘ECO-Style Student Association’ in facebook search:

-       Eco bike

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ecobicycle

-       CompromisoEco

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/CompromisoEco

-       Eco Green

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ecogreenforever

Websites also show up on facebook results:

-       www.eco.org

-       en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eco

-       www.ecoproducts.com

As well as friends that have joined these groups also show up under the results!

Facebook gives many sources and links when search a simple word. This is really amazing. Facebook you are awesome and I am egger to work with you on this project in promoting ESSA!!

Introductory Blog Post - Alice Sech

Hello readers!

My name is Alice Sech, but my family and close friends usually call me Alicja, which is pronounced Ali-c (like in cinnamon)-ia (this sound cannot be found in the English speaking language, but that’s as close as I can relate it to!). I come from a Polish background and I’m first generation in my family to live in Canada. I was born and raised in Edmonton and have always had a close connection to the ever growing Polish community such through being involved with church groups, dance groups, and festivals. I have always had close ties with my family’s heritage and have traveled to Poland during my summers whenever I could. As I spent my recent years in Poland, I fell in love with the European life and knew that there is more out there, in a sense that there are more beautiful places to visit in the world. My optimism led me to finally pursue my dream and travel most of Europe this summer for 2 months. I began in London, then off to Amsterdam, Paris, Germany (Delizsh, Berlin & Munich), Poland (Ilawa), Prague, Vienna, Croatia (Split & Hvar), Italy (Roma & Ostia), Spain (Malaga, Madrid, Ibiza, Barcelona, & Valencia) and ended my journey back in London. It was a trip of a lifetime! I never experienced so many heritages, fashion, multiculturalism, history, and all sorts of situations all at once.  This trip allowed me to unfold my artistic inspirations and explore one of my biggest passions in life, fashion.

I’ve been interested in fashion ever since I can remember. I have always loved to manipulate clothing and accessories to express a certain story, theme, movement, or emotion on the body. In other words, I wear clothing to express a form of art. Yes, I am the weird one (by appearance) walking through the U of A campus stuck in the past wearing vintage clothing or wacky pants imported from Asia or exotic accessories from India. I truly believe in expressing your inner artist. One thing about myself is that I do not like to follow societal norms and I express it by dressing unique!    

To pursue my dream in fashion, I am currently taking the Human Ecology program at the University of Alberta. My major is in fashion design and minor in marketing. I also like to be involved in extracurricular activities outside of campus to get a hands on experience in the fashion industry. In the past I have been involved with agencies such as mode models http://www.modemodels.com/edmonton/ as a fashion stylist for photo shoots and fashion shows, Western Canada Fashion Week as a volunteer for backstage and marketing coordinator (which happens twice a year for a whole week) http://www.westerncanadafashionweek.com/, and as a fashion show coordinator/ event planner at an Edmonton’s locally owned fashion magazine, Parlour!  http://parlourlife.com/. One of my biggest projects was to throw a charitable fashion show, featured by Parlour magazine, to save the Strathcona swimming pool from being shut down by the city. You can get more information about it at this link blogged by a local Calgary fashion designer and where you can also see a shout out to me after the show! http://melncolydesigns.com/20101112/off-the-deep-end-fashion-showart-exhibition/.

If you’d like to see more of my work in detail, I have a personal blog of my fashion experiences you can check out at http://alicjasech.wordpress.com/.

For my current project I am starting a fashion sustainability group at the U of A to help promote and educate the campus on a better sense of how to reusing clothes and accessories and still make it look stylish and modern. A blog is in process to give more information about the club and I will post it up in the nearest future.

All for the love of fashion!

Alice xx