We don't do fashion. We are fashion.

Fashion is my life.

I live it, breathe it, eat it. I think about fashion every second of every day. Even when I have a "bum day" (and those are rare), I'm still conscious of my fashion choices. Fashion, to me, is everything.

Naturally, Fashion Board was the perfect club for me. I was so excited when I got that yellow application on my first day. I immediately filled it out.

When I attended my first Fashion Board meeting, I was so intimidated. There's almost 150 people on Fashion Board, and all of them are...well...fashionable. But moreso than anyone would expect. It's like taking the 150 best-dressed people at USC and sticking them in a room together. And then, the be-all end-all of fashionista divas stands up--his name is Marquis Bias, and he is (as far as I can tell), the only male on fashion board. He makes all of us girls look like frumps. I've never met anyone more fabulous in my entire life. Naturally, I was (and still am) intimidated by him.

When I tell people that I'm on Fashion Board, they don't get it. They're like, "What do you even do? Sit around and talk about Project Runway?" In a word, no. We do all sorts of things--we host USC Fashion Week in the spring, we help out with fashion shows, we have speakers come in and talk to us about how the fashion industry really is, we have sewing classes, we host style workshops, and we do community service.

Today we had our first event--Lee Denim Day Jean Drive. We raised a ton of money for breast cancer research by selling baked goods on Greene Street and at the Coliseum. We also collected clothing to give to foster children. It was a lot of fun, and it was all for a good cause.

Fashion board is definitely something I will continue doing throughout college--after all, as our motto says, I don't do fashion. I AM fashion!

Keep it classy and fabulous!
xoxo, Laura