[Shannon] Glasheen, 21, is a Boston resident who received a senior certificate from SFD this past year and took the school’s nine-credit advanced course this semester. After generating 125 sketches, she narrowed down her line to 25 conceptions and then sewed the five garments presented in the show. “I decided to make reconstructed recycled fabrics and reinvent the look of grunge from the ’90s,” she says. “I wanted to make it more feminine and modernize it, but still use the same shirts that were worn in the ’90s by finding them in thrift stores.” Glasheen found everything she needed at Boomerangs in Jamaica Plain and Urban Renewals in Allston — the plaid shirts she turned into short dresses came from the men’s department, and the Swiss-dot fabric that became half of a green-plaid tunic was converted from an old curtain. Glasheen is already planning another reconstructed collection, this time for winter, and is looking for freelance work.
-The Boston Phoenix, May 2008