Moore's Marketing and Communications team had the great pleasure of collaborating with award-winning filmmaker Glenn Holsten on the production of a short film about Lilah James '18, Fashion Design, and the healing process she experienced in creating her collection, Anxiety Descending, for "Century 21 Stores present FASHION SHOW 2018" on May 11 at The Barnes Foundation. The film was created for Holsten's site www.oc87recoverydiaries.org with its focus of "busting mental health stigma, one story at a time." Lilah's collection won both the Century 21 Best in Show and Adrienne Vittadini '66 Awards.
Below is an introduction by Holsten to Lilah James: Complex PTSD Recovery on the Runway.
"Recovery and creativity are a powerful combination. It’s always a thrill when we are able to connect with someone’s artistic expression journey in ways that defy traditional vocabulary —something instinctive inside of us says 'Yes — that’s EXACTLY what I was feeling!' Words aren’t necessary, but we feel something that we recognize as a truth, or a truth about ourselves. For me, that mysterious and wonderful phenomenon in the presence of art is, frankly, one of the joys of being alive.
I had such a moment when I first encountered the works of fashion designer Lilah James. Lilah is a young designer who recently graduated from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia. The college had hired me to create some video portraits of some of their awesomely talented students, and Lilah was on my list of terrific young people to meet one day when I arrived at the school with my video maker colleagues."
