Braving the ‘Wilderness’ together JoJo Barnard, Delaney Lavelle, Sienna Martens, Sophia Manos, Maggie Mass, Elizabeth Nation, Callen Romell, Maya Tackett, Priya Thoppil, Isa Truan, Camilla Vandegrift, Nate Williams, and Harriet Zettner March 18, 2025
![A ZINGER FROM ZENOBIA: Freshman Zenobia Sims strikes a pose during the fashion show in a flowy white dress designed by junior Lidia Meaux. Though Sims said she knew vaguely of Meaux through her sister’s friend prior to the show, she was assigned to model for Meaux’s design randomly. Despite the unfamiliarity, the model and the designer turned out to be the perfect fit. “[Meaux] makes really great dresses, and I was very proud to be one of her models for the fashion show,” Sims said. “So I thought, ‘Hey, why not show it off for everyone?’” Sims said that unfortunately, Meaux’s designs did not place in the top four spots this year. “But in the end, it was still really good, and I liked how [the dress] was made,” Sims said. “It felt really comfortable, and I really appreciated how it looked.” As a first-time participant in the fashion show, Sims said she decided to be a model to expand her horizons. “I just wanted to do something new,” Sims said. “It felt fun. And to dress up, or to have someone dress me up, when I don’t even know what I’m going to be dressing up as, is really interesting to me, and it just makes me excited. I like the unknown.” Although she said the fashion show went well, Sims said some confusion backstage made the process more chaotic. “We had Act I, and we were all trying to get ready, moving around,” Sims said. “We had to keep our volume down because you could hear us from the stage.” Sims said Act II was similarly chaotic, with many models losing track of where they were supposed to be in line. “But in the end, it did come out really well–surprisingly, for a bunch of high schoolers,” Sims said. “But then again, some of [the models] have been in this way longer than me.” Now that her first experience as a model for the fashion show is over, Sims advises students who are interested in modeling in the future to be prepared for showtime. “Mostly, work on your walk, and work on how you’re going to look,” Sims said. “And there have been so many people who are like, ‘I don’t know my designer, I don’t know where they are,’ so just keep in contact with your designer at all times.” Caption by Camilla Vandegrift.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/54378475889_b0443a533d_o-1-e1742414839283-880x1200.jpg)