Andrew Fezza

On Thursday night, Andrew Fezza spoke in the basement of JJ White. His posters of his models and clothing were all around the room and he also had mannequins modeling his masterpieces. He started speaking at around 6:05 and finished at 7. He spoke for way longer than 15 minutes. He talked about how he grew up and went to Cheshire academy and how he went to Boston College and was originally going pre med. One of his good friends was into fashion designing and another one of his friends moms is the reason he became interested in designing clothing. He said he never really thought of being a fashion designer while growing up. He told us about how he struggled and had some times where he wanted to give up on designing clothing but pushed through and is happy that he stuck with it. After he told us about his life he asked if anyone had questions. Literally everyone in the room asked a question and made it so much longer. There were so many people in the room that I could hardly even see the guy. His wife was there with him and our headmaster, Mr. Nozell, was also there listening. I didn’t really like it because it was boring for me because I’m not into art or fashion designing or anything like that. I did like hearing about his life and the turning points of his career. It gave me a better outlook on fashion designing and how long the process is. He told us that it takes him 8 months to design one season of clothing. He is currently working on winter of 2015 I’m pretty sure. He seemed pretty laid back but he said that he was really nervous about speaking in front of us and that a lot of things at Cheshire Academy have changed. Someone asked him what his favorite memory from Cheshire Academy was and he said the smoking section and that they had a lot more freedom. I was going to take a selfie with him but Caroline and I just took one together instead.