Meagan Hu

Every vintage T-shirt tells a story, don’t it

If I’m ever wearing a thrift store buy around my dad, I always make sure to let him know, especially the price (“Fifty cents. It was the half off sale!”). He hates it when I buy used things, so natura…

Why is Yao Ming so tall?

Throughout the semester, we’ve discussed an array of topics that address Asian and Asian American issues. But when we take a step back and look at all that has been covered, we realize that we’ve bare…

Chamber of secrets

Dear IC Big Room,

It’s like you’re Star Magazine or some other gossip source that seems to soak up all the juicy news. You get to listen in on so many campus group meetings, even the ones of those clo…

Western names

One of the perks of rooming with your BFF is that you constantly hear new stories about their past. As of late, the most memorable of such personal history exchanges between the two of us resulted in …

Not just a model minority

In one century, the stereotypical Asian has gone from being passive, backwards and exotic to being the overly hardworking, musically and mathematically gifted “model minority.” Think back to high scho…

A question of fetish or taste

Weezer has been a staple in our music libraries since the times of training bras and dances that are over before Paces begins. How could we resist Rivers Cuomo singing cheeky lines to us about teen an…

On beauty

On a steamy afternoon this past summer, Meagan and an Asian-American friend of the same age and gender, seated in the Taipei metro, found themselves in a sticky situation. Across from them was a leath…

Far from our roots

Our biggest concern in having a column with an “Asian perspective” is that you will perceive us as angry political crusaders charged with a righteous mission to correct the wrongs of institutional rac…

Intellectual fashion?

Earlier this semester, I found myself receiving fashion column advice from two of the most fashion unconscious people I know, Mickey Katz and Dwight Smith (mad love, bros!). Among their ideas for my c…

Cult of size zero

Flipping through a March 1924 issue of “Today’s Housewife” that I recently received as a gift, I was amused by how archaic most of the topics were. One article advised that if young girls watched the …

Fantasy fashion

For the first second, it looks like a normal high-heeled shoe until you realize that something has gone disturbingly wrong. The heel does not protrude vertically from the platform of the shoe, but ins…

Self awareness of fashion

The subject of Kanye West has come up consistently in various conversations I’ve had over the past few weeks, which got me thinking about his music in terms of the subject of this column. It is an inc…

Self-mockery is the latest in luxury fashion

I rarely find products with designer labels plastered on them appealing. This summer, however, a certain bag caught my fancy on the streets of New York City several times. It was nothing more than a p…

Stay true to your style and ignore trends

Fashion weeks around the globe herald yet another season of new styles and trends for mainstream consumers to covet.

Models this season are outfitted in bright blocks of color. Metallics and sequins d…

Heeless heels backward step toward foot binding

Fashion is so saturated with extreme and ridiculous designs that sometimes nothing seems to faze me anymore. But I recently came across a shoe that made my jaw drop. It wasn’t the $3,500 price tag. Or…

No shame in drag in the post-feminist era

It was sometime after dinner on Saturday night, and I was flopping about my room to the raspy crooning of Lil Wayne on his new single “Lollipop,” getting inspired for the night of debauchery ahead at …

Unveiling the inspiration for Marc Jacobs' Fall 2008 collection

I’ve managed to get halfway through the semester without even alluding to Marc Jacobs, but that’s about to end because of the recent New York Fashion Week show for his Fall 2008 collection. One discla…

Fashion on the streets of London

London is a city steeped in history. The winding, confusing mazes of roads that compose much of the city streets follow the paths that the Romans first constructed more than two millennia ago. It is s…

That other F-word

While I am a devoted fan of the show Project Runway, this season has been a bit tepid for me. It has placed too much emphasis on catering to specific clients and as a result, has detracted from the de…

Prada collection challenges gender conventions

While I don’t usually look at menswear collections, the recent buzz around the Prada Fall 2008 men’s collection got me very interested. According to the review by Tim Blanks, the collection included “…