118 CommentsYou keep dressing sharply and Bwog will keep taking your picture! Here, another week’s snapshots of Columbia’s most stylish students.
Katherine Taylor, BC ’13, Hewitt Dining Hall
Where are you from? Originally St. Petersburg, Russia.
What’s your major? I want to major in ballet and psychology.
What inspires your fashion sense? I think the thirties and fifties. I like–it’s very feminine, cute.
What are you looking forward to right now? Summer and beach time!
What’s the most interesting class you’re taking? Probably ballet.
Moooore!
Genevieve Jacobson, CC ’12, College Walk
What’s your major? Anthro and art history.
What’s your favorite class this semester? Twentieth Century Art with Brandon Joseph.
Funny! Someone else also said that a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. It’s incredible. I love it. He makes a red square interesting.
What’s your inspiration? Chloë Sevigny.
Where are you going? I’m going to meet up with a friend to do some de Tocqueville reading for CC.
Elena Villareal, CC ’13, College Walk
What’s your major? Undecided.
What’s your favorite thing to wear in winter? My amazing Cole Haan space boots.
What’s your inspiration? Myself.
Where are you going? I’m going home to study, finally.
Cody Geronimo II De La Vara, CC ’13, John Jay Dining Hall
What’s your major? I’m thinking right now math perhaps. I was thinking music, but I don’t think I want to anymore.
What’s your most interesting class? Honestly, I like my Calc II. . .but CompSci’s pretty sick.
What’s a class you want to take? Basic Electroacoustics.
What inspires your style? I don’t know. Where I come from – San Diego. Things that are funny; very silly old clothing.
What are you looking forward to right now? In two weeks, this famous techno musician from Chile named Matias Aguayo is coming to Market Hotel and making some sick music!
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118 Comments
@there are fashionable people at columbia… it’s just that none of them are shown here
@Not like the 50 millionth commenter matters buttttt BWOG THIS HAS TO STOP. YOU’RE HURTING MY EYESIGHT. WHAT HAS HAPPENED? YOU CHANGED, MAN.
@person genevieve looks like a cute little elf and if that’s not fashionable fashion sucks
@WBAR god cody, why you gotta dress like you just tumbled outta bed to go to John Jay or something? You’re at an elite institution now, a lot is riding on your sartorial choices.
@Cody not too sure why I was picked,
I am blatantly not on college walk.
@fred you guys need to chill the fuck out and listen to matias aguayo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ7TO2-0ZvM
matias aguayo “rollerskate”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsxV_qNVdec
rebolledo feat. matias aguayo “pitaya frenesi”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3ED1z2WK4
matias aguayo “minimal (dj koze remix)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsxbOlNMN4
closer musik (matias aguayo + dirk leyers) “one, two three (no gravity) (ewan pearson remix)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo3fcqfEQ6I
matias aguayo “new life”
CODY YOU ARE A BOSS
@wut wut
@Smsh a lot of insecure mothafuckers go to CU/Barnard to be shitting all over their fellow students. Congrats & keep it up!
@Anonymous To quote Kurt Vonnegut (loosely), anyone who uses as much animosity as you all have to attack a photograph on a fashion blog is \like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.\
Chill The Fuck Out.
@call me crazy but looking back on the photos, it’s hard to believe this is not a joke. No one is smiling and some or looking at the camera. This could be straight out of the Onion. Terrible piece, or a poorly conceived joke.
@person The second girl looks like a cute little elf and if that’s not fashionable fashion sucks.
@These people Probably don’t feel too good about themselves after reading the comments about themselves.
AWESOME.
Also, NONE of these people ARE SEEN ON COLLEGE WALK.
@Anonymous just because they dress hella weird doesn’t mean they’re fashionable. ew.
@This post has 99 comments, but a compliment aint one.
@Anonymous plenty of people on this campus stand out from “the sea of A&F”. is there even a sea of a&f? an extraordinary number of people here are well-dressed with a distinctive personal style, but of course bwog picks only those people who look like they got dressed in the dark.
@Note to self: Avoid camera-toting Bwogger on college walk at all costs! I feel bad for these folks – there’s practically no way to be featured in “As Seen on College Walk” and come out untouched. Keep your head up guys!
@Anonymous asdf
@bleugh I feel like this article takes 30 minutes to produce from the time the columnist steps out of their room to publication. I see plenty of fashionably dressed people every day and these people, while I am sure interesting in their own right, are by no means standouts. Written by the right people, this column has all the potential to be interesting.
@great idea The room hop person should do a feature called OFFICE HOP.
That way the students can see the potentiall very unusual offices of the professors.
their cool stuff, how they decorate, the books on their shelves etc…
I vote for room hop person who did ZOE’s room to do OFFICE HOP
@this column should focus on the combo of the interview and the clothes.
Everyone has their own distinct style.
BWOG should manage to capture the student’s quirkiness and complement it with a great interview. The clothes are just an excuse to interview interesting columbia students and faculty ( and everyone knows there are many) The students are being nice to pose, they would benefit from nice pics.
The ROOM HOPS are great. They showcase the quirky rooms and manage to make the students’ rooms also lok great and interesting.
The ROOM HOP person should do a feature called OFFICE HOP, and feature cool offices from columbia and barnard professors.
@this column sure gets a lot of responses……
@Nathan What really annoys me about this whole situation is not the clothes these kids are wearing (what makes these kids really fashionable is that they are unique in comparison to the sea of preppy A&F around them), but the fact that Bwog would take photos of them and not expect this highly insulting discourse. People who go beyond the average will always get persecuted for being different, especially at Columbia, and I think Bwog should just be a little more professional and think before placing these types of individuals into the line of fire.
and Elena and Genevieve are fierce.
@awwww Awww thanks for being so SWEET! Glad to know I stand out hahaha
@awwww Nathan is so sweet! Hahha even tho I dont knoe u thanks for such a nice comment! Glad to know I stand out!!
@Anonymous also, what is genevieve doing on anything related to fashion? girl needs to look in a mirror before she leaves the house.
@Anonymous knee socks will never be in.
ever.
sorry.
@Anonymous i mean, that’s just wrong
@Anonymous i mean, that’s just not true
@Mike COOOOODDDDYYYYY
@Matt I love Cody.
@Anonymous Cody is fine
@uhh ugly, dirty, far from fashionable… utterly sad.
@Anonymous genevieve’s face is too pretty not to be shown in this picture!
@Anonymous genevieve rox. but what is that picture? she deserves better.
@As much as these photos may not be flattering... … you have to give these people credit for giving time into their outfit. Most people at Columbia trot around in sweats and flip flops (yes, even in the Winter), or socks and flip flops… And lets not forget how many people skip the step of trying to dress up and just throw on Columbia apparel.
@This is a very valid point! Even though this isn’t exactly the hottest crop of Columbia fashion I’ve ever seen, I appreciate anyone trying to do more than slap their greasy hair into a top knot, and head to class in their pajamas. I’ve seen far too many platform flip flops on Columbia to hate on these people for doing something fun with their clothing.
@can I comment and be a catty graduating senior:
1-did you mean to make your boots look like uggs?
2-head-nod to ke$ha, torso-nod to 2nd grade ballet dancers??????
3-ugly betty: so maybe you’re not too self-inspired.
4-urban outfitters goes through the washer a few thousand times.
sorry, not fashion!
@can i comment and be a candid graduating senior:
you’re a stuck-up shallow bitch! :)
@obs Way to take it personal- you must wear a vomit-inducing combination of all the outfits. I’ll call you…Barnard. :D X0
@lol Oh yes, because I point out just how pathetic you are for judging people’s outfits like a fucking high school freshman bitch, I am now one of those horrible barnard students! Good god, I’m so hurt! How dare someone insinuate I go to college across the street and, GASP! wear ugly clothes!
Poor little girl, maybe if you spent more time acting like an adult instead of pissing and moaning about outfits and Barnard students, you might actually make some friends!
@Anonymous you can whatever be whatever you want little princess!
be a candid graduating senior (whatever the fuck that is supposed to suppose)
@oooo Genevieveeeee MWAHHHH you look kyoooooot!
@damnnnn damn ppl need to give everyone a break. If u dont like it then dont look at it! Stop hating for no reason. High school years are so NOT over
@uhmm.... ballet’s a major at barnard?
who spends 50 g’s to major in that?
and ppl try to say barnard and columbia offer the same standards in education
@Anonymous 1. It’s dance, not ballet.
2. She said dance and psych, not just dance. Many dance majors choose to double major.
3. Someone who wants to pursue a professional dance career but wants an education so that they can find another job when they’re forced to retire around the age of 30.
4. Just because you have no appreciation for the performing arts doesn’t mean that they’re not worthwhile.
@surfin' UWS What an idiotic thing to say.Many people take secondary majors out of interest and passion.
It’s a calling like anything else. Is it any sillier than Eastern religions, Creative Writing or any of the dozens of Columbia majors that don’t involve a straight path to Wall Street?
Just because something doesn’t require you to write an essay and post on courseworks every two days does not mean that it is not worth learning, honing, and committing to.
…Morons.
@agreed so many of these posts make me realize what a bunch of really nasty INSECURE people i go to school with…shame
@truth can we rename this feature “hipsters as seen on college walk”? since when does well-dressed = wanna be brooklynite scum?
@umm excuse me?? Brooklynite scum? You wish you were from Brooklyn, pal.
@Blame the photographers! Y’all need to take better pictures
@sexylibrarian2010 quit hating, yall just wish you had space boots. don’t take a horribly botched photo of a cute girl like Elena and subject her to all these pretentious and disturbed people.
@cutiewithabooty Elana rocks—stop hating on a girl who knows what she’s doing and working it well!!
@disappointed bwog, it’s okay if you don’t have a good sense of fashion and are therefore drawn to people with a similarly poor fashion sense. But, I can usually depend on you to ask witty questions and take decent photographs. This does neither.
@Anonymous I hope Elena’s inspired by herself because I sure as hell am not inspired to anything except maybe vomit at her fashion sense.
@Anonymous It takes some chutzpah to say you’re inspiration is yourself in the first place
@everywhere the carnabetian army marches on,
each one a dedicated follower of fashion
@WOW I want to call Stacey and Clinton right now.
@yes, please call them NOW!! I think that What Not to Wear should chose some pathetic college kids and their horrible “styles”
@Anonymous Bwog, can your sense of style be any worse or any more homogeneous? I’m so sick of seeing these frumpy, dirty-looking hipsters. The first girl is probably the most different, but she doesn’t even look that stylish or well-accessorized. I could do such a better job. Sometimes I wonder if these posts are meant to be taken seriously or is this some kind of sarcastic joke on what not to wear…
@Anonymous can’t even see no. 1’s dress because of the retarded angle at which this photo was taken. come on bwog!!
@Anonymous For real, Bwog needs to step up its game. Every week these get worse and everyone picked is CC/BC’12 or ’13
@Anonymous you spelled Cody’s last name wrong.
@oh wait but let's be real Genevieve rocks.
@Oh boy! No reason to be mean to the subjects, goodness! They were just going about their daily business. Question Bwog’s choices, but let’s not be assholes. That said, it would be cool if the photos were a bit better, so we could get the full scope of these charming individuals’ styles.
@Cody has an AWESOME name. Geronimo?? That sounds too cool to be true. but yeah, I think Cody is the cutest/coolest out of them.
@surfin' UWS You can always count on Columbia students to take a few minutes from our busy required reading-filled Sundays to channel the plastics from “Mean Girls” and bitch out fellow students.
Oh Columbia. Never change.
@Dude You’re so above it all!
@surfin' UWS Yeah I kinda am actually.
See me not insulting these random people to feel better ’bout myself; that’s me being above it.
Putcho hand in the air and touch my sole while you’re here.
@Anonymous to the daily editor: be more discriminating about the photos you post. #2 could have been good, but she clearly wasn’t ready for the picture–and not in a cute candid photo way, but a bad photography way. I’m a frequent BWOG reader and I believe this feature could be great. Just try harder. Ask better questions. Take better photos. Make an effort. Follow the BWOG standard.
@Anonymous Number 3 looks like Ugly Betty, except less well put together. Does she have any concept of color coordination? The coral bag and the horribly fitting pink shirt compliment each other about as well as… well I don’t know, but it’s grotesque.
@Entirely Unrelated I have high hopes for the class of 2014:
http://www.fmylife.com/miscellaneous/8432968
@what what the hell kind of picture is that of Genevieve?
@If you call this "stylish" then I guess I can wear a banana peel on my head and call it “haute couture.”
@please note: Cody’s Winnie the Pooh charm
@seriously? all these kids have their own quirky sense of fashion which is what this article is highlighting. so all you pretentious fashion slaves, get off your high horse and deal with the fact that not everyone struts around campus in heels and haute couture.
@Actually, this article is suppose to highlight Columbia’s most “stylish” and “sharply” dressed students. None of them meet the criteria…
@does it ever say ‘fashion’? because personal style does not necessarily have anything to do with the fashion world. I agree they’re not ‘fashionable’ but they have their own style and aesthetic outlook, and just like the Sartorialist and other street fashion bloggers show, that’s interesting enough!
@I second that! Well said, Lady.
@lol ppl r real haters for no reason
@Anonymous The reason is that they’re insecure about themselves and feel the need to insult others to feel better about themselves.
@Comment MadLibs Replace every “style” with the word “penis”.
Replace every “fashion” with the phrase “marsupial sex”.
@Anonymous that was the worst joke I have ever heard.
go back to writing for the Mind of Mencia
@Hahahahaha Seriously one of the best insults I’ve heard in a while.
@Fashion is not to be taken lightly. No, really. Especially since Fashion Week was only last week, this is an insult to fashion to say that these people are the epitome of campus style. Number 1 has a cute flower in her hair, but that’s about it. Number 2?? Come on. Just because she wears a dress from the 90’s and disgusting socks does NOT make it cool or ironic. If she maybe had those socks in some heels, as the runways have shown, perhaps I’d cut her a little slack. Number 3 looks like my grandmother’s couch after her cat vomited Cheetos on it (that orange bag- yeck!). And 4 is just cute. We can excuse boys a little more, as sexist as that is. Too bad he hasn’t formed a sense of style, common to freshman boys.
Please read/glance at the Sartorialist. Scott Schuman is fantastic and those people have real style.
@lol the stick up your ass? it’s fucking huge
@Anonymous It’s a designer stick, though
@So obvious... …that the above commentor is the same person who throws darts at every “College Walk” post. Meticulously does she write a scathing paragraph, replete with her superior perspective on how to remedy the crisis (because she, of course, is right). Oh, and it’s in numerical order. Thank you for gracing Bwog with your insight, because evidently there is only one way to be stylish.
@Anonymous Awful. Just awful.
@Anonymous shit these pictures are awful
@hmmmm number 3 is pretti bad!
@hooray for San Diego!
@hmm bwog, learn how to photograph your subject properly. just…browse the sartorialist or something.
@yeah agreed. while i have noticed the trend of pigeon-toed, tiny-legged hipsters, these photos are just ridiculous. get a decent photographer!
@um... ballet isn’t a major.
@... at barnard it is.
@cc '11 no it isn’t but dance is a major
@eh, give her a break. she’s a freshman. from barnard.
@damn …ice cold
@cc'10 at least the barnard girl isn’t as fugly as the cc ones…damn no wonder guys have to go across the street
@Anonymous GENEVIEVE IS AWESOME
@julian tutelage yeah she is
@anyone? “jon jon’s getting F’d tonight”
@whoa Cooooooooody
@Anonymous holy shit. can they be more indy or ugly?
if i were an prospective student and saw these pictures (alone with the history of this feature), I would decline my acceptance, or withdraw my application, immediately. It makes Columbia seem really weird and indy.
@hi you are an idiot
@Anonymous why? because I don’t like when people dress like they cobbled together outfits from a 1970’s thrift store?
Why would I want to be surrounded by people who are stupid enough to dress that way?
@hi why did you come to Columbia?
@Anonymous For the intellectual culture. It seems that a majority of comments here agree that the people are badly dressed.
For the record, clothing is not really a huge indicator of intelligence, but if I could i would goto a school without idiots like these. Assuming there was such an alternative.
@Anonymous you spelled indie wrong…
and yeah man, who cares about diversity… it’s pointless, we should all be the same.
@uhh I’m right with you man…
@too many space soldiers on this campus…
@Bwog, Stop! just because theyre dressed different does not make it fashionable!
@umm ok bwog, i get the fashion sense in #1, and possibly #2, but 3 and 4? seriously?
@seas kid none of these pictures have any redeeming qualities.
@lol I was going to say the opposite… the first one is ho hum tweed got it off the sale rack at H&M and no risks- could be anyone off the street
@hey you guys spelled Matias Aguayo wrong
@Anonymous aw, these kids are adorably weird
@wow damn, codys the man