Designer: Rachel Roth
Title: Tano Couture – Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Rachel Roth, from San Jose California, was practically raised on comic books and video games. As she got older she discovered her interest in sewing and eventually that led to cosplay. It quickly took over her life and ten years later she is still cosplaying strong and running her own geek fashion store. “I first started sewing with my grandma and was making my own clothing,” Rachel says. “Once I began cosplaying with my friends is when sewing really took off for me. So as soon as I graduated from high school I knew I had to go to fashion school ASAP.”
She graduated from FIDM with a fashion design degree and then created her own geek clothing store, Unicorn Sushi, and took on costume commissions on the side. For a year she worked at Sarah Seven as one of the main hand seamstresses doing lace detailing on their wedding dresses. When it comes to her own designs, Rachel says she works with different types of fabric, combining soft feminine detailing with harsher bolder designs. She loves mixing different types of fabric texture as well as playing with different shapes in a garment and creating new silhouettes out of them. You can see this in her geek couture design for The Her Universe Fashion Show this year. “My design is inspired from my favorite spunky Jedi, Ahsoka Tano. I took a lot of inspiration from her last look in The Clone Wars.”