Her winning look was a puffy coat, skirt and winter hat that seamlessly combined materials from tulle to wool to nylon the silhouette and colors - reds, oranges and touches of blue - hinted at the shape of a red panda. The movie reflected Guillermo Heselton’s experience growing up in an Asian household and reminded her of her mother.

Guillermo Heselton won the judge’s award for her look inspired by Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red,” which tells the story of a young girl whose path to puberty unexpectedly involves turning into a red panda when she loses control of her emotions. Two winners were chosen as per tradition – one by the audience and one by a panel of judges of fashion industry experts and past winners. And the energy this year is insane everyone brought their A-plus, -plus, -plus, -plus, -plus game.” “But it was great to come here and see my fellow designers again. “I was feeling some anxiety meeting in person,” she said. It’s a community of artists cheering on each other’s work, according to Cindy Guillermo Heselton, one of the evening’s winners. If you missed this event, and love going to cons, Ashley will be at Megacon Orlando this May.Many of the designers have competed in multiple years, and therefore got to know each other and form supportive friendships. Sadly these were not recorded, because this would be amazing to listen to! He would also explain what the moral of each epsiode was.

He would explain to the actors what was happening in the episode, where it was going, and what Star Wars information was relevant to each episode. We also got to learn how Dave Filoni would give breakdowns before recording Clone Wars and Rebels. That’s how Ashley Eckstein became Ahsoka Tano AKA ‘Snips.’ She did, and despite being told she needed more of an accent, she got the part! This was after ‘snipping’ back at Dave Filoni that she was doing the accent properly. But, she was told to come back with an Icelandic accent and try out for a young new character we have. She originally auditioned for Padme (and almost left because there were so many people there), but was told she sounded too young. She then went into some behind the scenes stuff, like her interview with Dave Filoni. I have quite a few of those dresses in my closet! One random fun fact I learned was that Ashoka inspired Ashley to start the ‘Her Universe’ line of clothing. Ashley began giving us her background, and then went into a Question and Answers section.Īs someone who only recently had the Star Wars universe expand via Clone Wars and Rebels (thank you to my co-host for pushing both series on me), this was so much fun, and all the information was new to me. This event felt very similar to a panel you might see at a local con, just with a much nicer background.

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