Pittsburgh Magazine: Lunar Gala’s annual Lunar New Year Fashion Show, which started in 1997, is Pittsburgh’s longest-running fashion show and one of the largest. “We’re planning on holding a capacity of 1,250,” says one of Lunar Gala’s producers and previous models, Anita Cheng.
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It's astonishing to me to hear about the programs that have come out of this school and its alumni. It is funny to me because most people consider our school a “computer school” or they think of engineering, and it is funny to me because there are so many creative people and clubs that come out of CMU. I love to see articles like this that advocate and demonstrate Carnegie Mellon's creativity. I also didn’t even know that this fashion show was a thing that happened at Carnegie Mellon and I sometimes rely on articles like this to point them out to me. I think it is great to have collaborations like this that encourage cross-departmental collaboration between different disciplines like designers choreographers and music makers. I think it's great that there is a club even focused on student opportunities and work even with students outside of campus and around Pittsburgh to create a community and event where students can receive mentors and learn how to collaborate with other designers.
My roommate and 2 close friends are a team on the Lunar Gala line-up for this year and it’s been very exciting to see it come along. I think it’s great that this year as the article points out that the event has been contained within the CMU student body enabling it to be completely run within the student body. I didn’t know the fashion show originated from the Taiwanese Student Association or that it had been around for 27 years. I think it’s really impressive what the students are able to create under the odd hours for which it operates. I know through my roommate that the meetings are held at 11 Pm and later to accommodate everyone’s busy CMU schedule. The late nights and huge body of work by each designer is very admirable and I am very excited to see this year’s line up themed to “liminal.”
Lunar Gala is a large part of the CMU community. While my older sister was still an undergrad at CMU, she worked on several Lunar Gala shows as a sound designer. I know multiple costume designers currently working on Lunar Gala pieces for this year's fashion show. It is one of my favorite times of the year, as the past two times it’s been live-streamed so I could watch it from the comfort of my couch. I didn’t know that Lunar Gala was nearly a 30-year-old tradition for CMU, and I am so happy to learn that they are starting to partner with local businesses around the Pittsburgh area. I think everyone is continuing to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, so it’s nice to see that Lunar Gala is using Style412 and Gidas Flowers to help support the costume designers and buy flowers for the day of the show. Overall, I hope I can see Lunar Gala this year, and I am excited to see what they do in the future.
YESS! I AM SO EXCITED FOR LUNAR GALA!!! I know that there are a few design and production students in the costume design program who are a part of the line up as they've designed a few pieces, and I am so excited to see their work. And these are some DPs I think are some of the coolest people I've met at the school of drama. I hope to work with them so closely in the future. I just bought my ticket for Lunar Gala and I'm looking forward to all the pieces being shown off. My friend, Marissa, is also one of the models for the Gala. I think it's so cool that this event is so large and so well known in pittsburgh. When I committed to Carnegie Mellon, I wanted a school that was super intergrated into the town itself, and LG is a such an example.
I am using this article as an opportunity to promote Räyya, Jackson, and Sukie’s line at the Lunar Gala this year. They are so incredible, as people and as creatives, and I CANNOT WAIT to see their collection that closes the fashion show this year. Last year, by extraordinary, spectacular, stupendous, gorgeous, awesome, incredible, breathtaking, talented, intelligent, and overall MAGNIFICENT big, Emma Pollet, now working at La Jolla Playhouse and soon to be president and princess of the universe, designed and built her own fashion line for Lunar Gala 2023. I cried and screamed at her utter beauty and awesomeness, and I know I will again this year as I see my dear friends grace that stage. I wish the tickets were less expensive. I am always in awe of how the team is able to transform the lowly CMU Wiegand Gym into a breathtaking platform to present these works of art.
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