Designer: Rebecca Jordan
Title: The Diva Plavaguna – The Fifth Element
Rebecca Jordan, originally from central California, now lives in Simi Valley. She is married with a 4-year old daughter. She works as a professional prop maker at a large prop studio in Southern California and is surrounded by geekiness every day. She describes her job as “amazing.” She has been costuming since she was 18-years old and says, “I started getting more into geek fashion when noticing there wasn’t a lot of options for dressing nice and geeky.”
Her fashion has been limited to what she has done for herself and through private commissions for the last nine years. She adds that that has all changed with her new job, though, and her focus on props has consumed her time recently. “I do love designing and making dresses,” she notes with a smile. “I try to represent my geek inspiration for fashion through subtlety. I like to think you can keep something simple and still have it read very well. I love designing things I think would work great on all ages as well as all body types, too. I always lean towards natural fabrics and believing that it’s what is inside that counts in a garment. If you don’t have a good foundation the rest of the clothing will fall apart.”
Photo: Mark Edwards