Dan Madsen
Publicist
Her Universe
dmadsen@araca.com
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Ashley Eckstein and Her Universe Bringing a Galaxy of New Star Wars™ Fangirl Fashions to Star Wars Celebration Europe in Essen, Germany
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 29th, 2013 – For the first time, actress and entrepreneur, Ashley Eckstein, the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars has partnered with Reed Exhibitions to bring her fangirl fashion apparel company, Her Universe™, to Celebration Europe July 26th thru the 28th in Essen, Germany. Eckstein will be personally meeting and greeting fans in the Her Universe shop in the official Celebration store and providing styling tips as well as signing autographs with Official Pix in the autograph section.
“I have been trying to make my Her Universe designs available to our European fans for a long time,” said Eckstein. “There are fangirls all over the world and I am beyond excited to have the opportunity to bring my Her Universe shop to Celebration Germany!”
Star Wars fans attending Celebration Europe in July will have a real treat as Eckstein is bringing 200 of her exclusive Return of the Jedi 30th anniversary necklaces to Germany. Each necklace comes with an autograph certificate by Eckstein. They will be first come, first serve. In addition, she will be bringing a selection of designs for female fans of all ages including dresses, tunics and fashion tops. Highlights include an exclusive design by Clone Wars Supervising Director Dave Filoni featuring Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker, limited to only 200, as well as a Celebration Europe exclusive Darth Vader dress using art Eckstein has loved from Japanese tea towels.
Star Wars Celebration Europe is being held at Messe Essen in Essen, Germany July 26th-28th. It is produced by Reed Exhibitions in partnership with and under the authorization of Lucasfilm Ltd. For more information on Star Wars Celebration Europe including activities, guests and where to purchase tickets go to: http://www.starwarscelebration.eu/Home/
Photo credit: – Kelsey Edwards Photography- http://www.kelseyedwardsphoto.com/ and Preston Mack Photography – www.pmack.com
About Her Universe
Her Universe was launched in 2009 by actress and entrepreneur Ashley Eckstein, and her partner, The Araca Group, known as one of the most innovative theatrical production and merchandise companies in the world. Her Universe was created to directly address the expanding market of female fans by entering into its first agreement with Lucas Licensing to develop and produce a line of female-centered Star Wars apparel and accessories. The success of that line was followed up with a collection for the Syfy network including such shows as Battlestar Galactica and with BBC America for Doctor Who and with CBS Consumer Products for Star Trek. You can learn more about Her Universe and purchase the current line of fangirl apparel and accessories by going to www.heruniverse.com and by following Eckstein on Facebook (facebook.com/HerUniverse) and Twitter (twitter.com/HerUniverse).
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This Return of the Jedi necklace honors the 30th Anniversary of the epic film. Her Universe has only made 1,250 necklaces to celebrate the anniversary. This extremely limited edition piece will come with an autographed certificate by Eckstein and will only be sold at Disney’s Star Wars Weekends, San Diego Comic Con and Celebration Germany. 200 necklaces will be available in Germany and they will be sold on a first come, first serve basis.
Feel the Power of the dark side as you pretend to be Darth Vader in this super flattering and stylish A-line dress. Subtle yet recognizable to any Star Wars fan, you’ll impress others with this fashion twist on Darth Vader’s famous wardrobe.
Perfect for spring and summer, this A-line Rogue Squadron dress features the Rebel Alliance symbol on the front and the title “Rogue Squadron” on the back!
Ashley was honored to have Dave Filoni, Supervising Director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars design another shirt for Her Universe. Inspired by the final scene from Season 5, this shirt features Ahsoka walking away from Anakin who is left with her Padawan beads in his hand. This is a limited edition shirt and will only be available for a short time.
Celebration brings Star Wars fans together from all over the world and so Ashley felt that it was only appropriate to represent several different cultures all on one shirt. This design features the famous line “May The Force Be With You” in multiple languages! Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Italian and many other languages are represented in the form of the opening crawl of Star Wars!
Revisit the dark side in this retro tee featuring the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader! This is a recreation of a popular shirt back from the 80’s.
For the 30th Anniversary of Return of the Jedi we used this well-known design from the classic Han Solo Underoo’s set for kids, from the 80’s, on this new retro tee.
This gorgeous artwork featuring Padme Amidala is the perfect complement to our previous best-selling Her Universe Padme Nouveau shirt.
When Ahsoka got a new costume in Season 3 women and girls wanted to Cosplay as her! The costume is very difficult to make so Ashley wanted to provide an easier and more comfortable way to dress up as one of your favorite characters. This tunic is extremely comfortable and even comes with thumbholes!
Cosplaying Princess Leia has never been so comfortable! Pretend to be everyone’s favorite Self Rescuing Princess with this costume hoodie from Her Universe. By wearing this lightweight zip-hoodie you can be Princess Leia with the hood up or just geek chic with the hood down.
By popular demand, Ashley heard the requests to create a scaled down version of our popular adult Princess Leia hoodie for young girls. Now, here it is! Slip the hoodie on, buns and all, and you instantly become a self-rescuing princess!
Everyone’s favorite little droid comes to life in this ultra comfortable R2-D2 hooded tunic -available in both adult and youth sizes!
Everyone’s favorite little droid comes to life in this ultra comfortable R2-D2 hooded tunic -available in both adult and youth sizes!
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