Post by jay on May 22, 2017 7:05:57 GMT
serving you teen vogue realness
Name: Olivia "Liv" Hendry
Age and Birthday: 19 // February 3rd, 1998 // Aquarius
Orientation: Bisexual
Gender: Female
Reason for Enrolling in an Arts’ School: Fashion Design
so ya wanna know more?
well, here ya go.
Appearance: Liv, a self-proclaimed fashion icon, is incredibly fussy about up keeping her appearance up.
Personality: Liv is in a major transitional period of her life, which has recently affected her resolve.
Likes (5+):
-Minimalism in fashion // Her personal style is mostly influenced by contemporary Korean street fashion.
-Sewing & embroidery // Whether she's fixing a seam for a friend, or stitching angry words on decorative fabric, she finds the act stress relieving and, above all, fun.
-Photography/Editing // Of course, being raised under the guide of two fashion photographer parents, Liv has learned the craft and it has grown to become a side hobby of hers. Liv likes to organize experimental shoots for herself, and her friends where they can all pretend to be high end photographers and models sporting all their latest thrifty finds. Liv is currently working on a fashion zine that she wants to attempt to sell on campus
-Drag // Liv loved the LGBTQ+ scene of Los Angeles, and thrived in it during her high school years. When she turned 16, she began participating in drag shows under the drag king alias of Sir Bitch. Her performances and constant attendance of shows allowed her to network in the drag community, and several drag queens that reside in LA commission her for outfits or outfit repairs.
-Sunglasses // Odd, maybe, but Liv's absolute favorite accessory is a pair of sunglasses. Her prized possession is her collection of 65 pairs of sunglasses. Circle frames are her favorite kind.
-Her mother // Olivia's mom is her best friend, and her biggest inspiration. She is forever thankful to have been born to such a talented, patient, and fierce woman.
Dislikes (5+):
-Quiet // You can take the girl out of the city, but you certainly can't take the city out of the girl. After spending her entire life in two bustling cities, Olivia absolutely must have some sort of excitement happening. She's already ready to go, go, go and only stops to sleep just enough to maintain her buzzing energy.
-Sugar coating // She's not the type to say what you want to hear, but rather what you need to hear. She expects the same courtesy in return.
-Vintage stores that purchase things from second hand stores and sell them for 600% more than what they bought it for // This speaks for itself.
-Physical contact {with certain exceptions} // Unless Liv outright tells you that you are a person who can touch her, she absolutely hates being touched.
-Phi Phi O'Hara // Her absolute least favorite Drag Queen of all time.
Family members:
-Simon Hardy: Her father, who she has only recently become on speaking terms with again. When she was 12, he began to abuse cocaine due to the influence of his new position as Chief Editor of a high fashion magazine. Once Loraine discovered Simon using while Liv was in the next room, she quickly took action and started the process of divorce. Simon did not attempt to stop the process, nor clean up his act, and handed custody to Loraine while continuing his excessive use of the drug. Liv has begun speaking to him again because he recently made the decision to attend rehab in an attempt to get sober, and reconnect with his daughter.
-Loraine Felix: Her wonderful, beautiful mother. Once divorced Simon, and after relocating herself and Liv to San Francisco, Loraine and her childhood friend started an alternative fashion magazine local to, at first, Los Angeles and then after being invested in by a fashion insider, the magazine is now published and sold all over California. Recently, there have been talks within the company of opening a branch in New York City.
Backstory:
Olivia had been a surprise to her parents, to say the least. The two freelance travel fashion photographers had never planned on having children, as their career relied heavily on their ability to relocate at a moment's notice. But one morning of unusual nausea prompted Loraine Felix to nervously purchase a pregnancy test at a South Korean convenience store. At the time, Olivia's mother was on assignment to shoot for the cover of 1997 May South Korean Vogue and the one person who could possibly be the father was currently in London doing a publicity shoot for an interactive art exhibit being installed at the Tate. The two parents had often had an on-again-off-again relationship since their wee days in undergrad at NYU, the the nature of their career made it difficult for both of them to attempt to keep a serious one, but spent most of their time together when the two were in their residences in the city.
Loraine waited until the shoot was over, and she was back in her Brooklyn studio apartment before calling up Simon Hendry to tell him the news and tell him she was unsure of what to do. Simon returned to the city a few days later, and the two met to discuss the future and what would come to be Olivia's future. After many tears, and long nights of talking, the two decided to start their lives together. They got eloped, and Loraine moved in to Simon's two bedroom in Astoria. And above all, they were determined to make it work with their careers. This had been much of Loraine's thought process during the course of decision making. She wanted to prove that mother's could work, and Simon couldn't help but be won over by her resolve. Loraine was a confident woman, with fierce determination, and although the timing could have been better, Simon felt lucky to start their lives together.
Olivia was born in New York, and spent her early childhood in that old Astoria two bedroom. In order to compromise, but still keep their careers, both parents began to work directly for high end fashion companies in Manhattan rather than live off their freelance assignments. Occasionally, the two still accepted freelance gigs in order to travel together as a family.
From the start, Liv loved the fashion world. It helped that she was immersed in it from birth, but Liv believes that no matter who she had been born to, she would have found fashion. Even from the moment Olivia could hold a crayon, she drew clothes, or so her mother claims. And by the age of six, Olivia had learned the skill of sewing from her after school nanny, and she started to create small outfits for various dolls. She always refused to let her mom dress her because she felt she had a better fashion sense, and Loraine couldn't argue, she did. Liv avidly collected the fashion magazines her parents would bring home from work, and proudly displayed her collection on a large white bookshelf in her room. She was the most fashion savvy third grader in her whole borough, and she wasn't afraid to let strangers know when they were wearing something out of season. Her parents often found themselves apologizing for her lack of filter (which was something that never really changed).
Unfortunately, however, the fashion industry has it's dark side and it happened to grab a hold of her father. He had gone from fashion photographer for the magazine, to the head editor himself. This required plenty of long hours, as well as the pressure to be facey and to network. This was the catalyst to her father's battle with a cocaine addiction, which ultimately led to the divorce of her parents after Loraine discovered Simon doing lines off the kitchen counter all while Live worked on homework in the living area.
Following the divorce, Loraine was drained from the city, and felt she couldn't view it in the same light as before, so she decided to relocate to be closer to her family in California. Of course, she was granted custody of Olivia, and she was to come with her. This is how Olivia grew to resent her father, and fall in love with her new home of LA.
She was 12 when she moved to LA, and attended a private performing arts magnet middle school. In it, she took specialized art classes as electives and accelerated general education courses. While fashion classes were not offered in the school program, she made due by taking both 3D Art classes as well as theatre classes. When she was given free range on projects in the art classes, she would use fabrics as her medium and created abstract outfits. Outside of school, she worked in the theatre costume department, assisting with both design and costume repair. The last two years of middle school ended up being a rather uneventful time in Liv's life. She wasn't particularly fond of her school, as she felt the pace moved too slowly for someone who had been honing her craft since she could hold a crayon.
High school, however, proved to be all the more exciting - for good and for bad. She attended yet another private performing arts magnet located in the heart of LA. Yes, traffic was absolutely horrible and her mom always had to ensure she left two and a half hours early in order to get Liv to school on time. This school certainly had more to offer than her previous middle school, and even had several classes that catered toward those attempting to break in to the fashion industry in the future. Her favorite had been History of Design, which was a course that encompassed the history of fashion trends started in Ancient Greece.
Freshman year of high school, Liv made who she would consider her first real friend. His name was Enrique Ruiz, and he was the son of a notable Hollywood producer. The two were absolutely inseparable. They met while both working on the first musical of the high school's season. Liv had enjoyed her time working in her middle school's theatre costume department, so she continued to volunteer to work with her high school's. Enrique was a bit of a theatre geek, with a love for both Brecht and Broadway. He was starring in the show at the time, a lovely
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