By MIKE CHAIKEN EDITIONS EDITOR Ebony Parish, as her fashion design alter ego Asa Gleek, earned the honors to be called the Raw Natural Born Artists fashion designer of the year for Connecticut in 2012. Asa Gleek, however, has more in common with flamboyant fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier or Vivienne Westwood, than a band built on luxe such as Calvin Klein or Michael Kors. Like Gaultier or Westwood, Ebony finds the art in the garments she creates. The Torrington resident said her move to creating fashion came about because “I sort of decided I was tired of art hanging on wall and I wanted to see art on people in every day life. I started… taking my designs and printing them on clothing, trying to figure out what was going to work and what wasn’t going to work.” Things began rolling in earnest for Ebony when she was asked to participate in a runway fashion show on Main Street in Torrington. “I panicked and said yes and then I panicked again. Then I asked the best seamstress I know, my mother, to help me put a show together that was going to be fashionable, artistic, and with [...]
By MIKE CHAIKEN EDITIONS EDITOR Ebony Parish, as her fashion design alter ego Asa Gleek, earned the honors to be called the Raw Natural Born Artists fashion designer of the year for Connecticut in 2012. Asa Gleek, however, has more in common with flamboyant fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier or Vivienne Westwood, than a band built on luxe such as Calvin Klein or Michael Kors. Like Gaultier or Westwood, Ebony finds the art in the garments she creates. The Torrington resident said her move to creating fashion came about because “I sort of decided I was tired of art hanging on wall and I wanted to see art on people in every day life. I started… taking my designs and printing them on clothing, trying to figure out what was going to work and what wasn’t going to work.” Things began rolling in earnest for Ebony when she was asked to participate in a runway fashion show on Main Street in Torrington. “I panicked and said yes and then I panicked again. Then I asked the best seamstress I know, my mother, to help me put a show together that was going to be fashionable, artistic, and with [...]