awards 2022 Red Carpet Fashion Report - Awards Avatars for 2022

[Jo Marshall]

Awards Ceremony season is upon us, and it's time to get all dressed up for the big event! 

Before we launch our ceremony, we encourage everyone to change their forum avatar to their character wearing glamorous attire like the kind you'd see on the red carpet. 

There's no need to get things perfect – lots of players just find a picture of their character's actor somewhere on the web and use that, like so: 

But if you're looking for something more spiffy, you can also head to the Graphics Requests forum and open a new thread asking for some help.

Make sure you leave plenty of time for the team there to help get something that works – best to start earlier than later! 

Once you have an image you like, you can change your forum avatar by following these instructions.

 

Challenge: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create the designer name for your avatar's outfit. You can include as much or as little detail as you want. Loaned from the Nova Collection from Betazed? Stolen from the Qo'nos M'ritih museum? Designed by Bajoran protégé Gelys? A showpiece by the Trill artist Pana? Weave a tale around it and it'll be featured in an FNS article.

[Serala]

Commander Jaelyne Isa is looking rather stunning in a simple black gown.

 

Edited July 1, 2022 by Jaelyne Isa

[LCDR Aine O. Sherlock]

Aine is rocking gold again this year. Her dresses lace work was commissioned from Romulan artisan craftsman and was hand done with a traditional form of Romulan knotting.

[Sera]

Sera’s dress hails from the independent Earth designer, “Gherkin,” who is headquartered in San Francisco.  She entered the eccentric designer’s showroom to escape one of the horizontal rain showers that the city is known for during her academy days.  Illogically enamored with Sera’s svelte form, he took her as a muse and demanded to have the honor of dressing her for formal events which Starfleet is known for.  He simply wouldn’t take “No” for an answer.  

Sera’s dress is bias-cut from Triaxian silk to best accentuate her form.  The color used is Imperial purple which is slated to be the “Color of the season,” and is going to be featured heavily in Gherkin’s upcoming fall collection.  Gherkin is quoted as saying “I think this color shall play magnificently against her creamy skin and verdant green eyes.  It shall suit her like a moonlight sonata, darling.”  Being mindful of Sera’s Vulcan, heat-loving nature, it is also lined with a heat retaining liner, which she finds most…agreeable.

[+ Yalu]

Yogan Yalu descended the grand staircase and entered the main awards hall six hours early.  Confident that he wasn't going to be late, he proceeded to assist the staff in putting out the centerpieces dressed in a classic black tuxedo designed by Vulcan textile historian T'Pantz.

Completing his look was a Bajoran silk bowtie by infamous D'jarra holdout Raunda Kollur, a patterned pocket square by Andorian allergist Onleefur sh'Neezin, and imitation eyeglasses by the only optician ever involuntarily dismissed from the Trill Science Ministry, Dr. Yucansi Jusfyne.

[Alieth]

 

Following her tradition for the third year in a row, Alieth attended the ceremony in a Vulcan-designed dress. This year, however, in contrast to the traditional Chi-ree models she usually preferred, she has opted for a dress created by Kawarda of T'Paal, a revolutionary couturier from the shores of the Voroth Sea. Following T'Paal's traditions, this is a long dress set with hundreds of semi-precious stones, black and gold, in a technique known as og-tanaf, a complex style of embroidery with string laced with sehlat vibrissae. And yet, it features a dramatic bare-shoulder neckline, a common design on the temperate Voroth coast, but absolutely inadvisable in the continental areas, one that would elicit more than a few raised eyebrows in the traditional desert cities, and which has earned Kawarda the nickname of a disturber of peace and convention.

Last but not least, she complements the dress with an IDIC of vintage design, possibly a family heirloom.

[Hallia Yellir]

A garment of old Earth origin, Hallia was somewhat giddy to show off something that had been custom made just for an occasion like this. From an old friend who owed the Yelikan a favour, Moss Zoras, owner of the Bolian owned brand, Spill the Jeans. Despite them specializing in denim and setting a new wave of trends for Bolarus, she knew out of anyone, they would know how to pull off a particularly ancient garment such as this.

A flowy gown, made from a delustered satin from earth and a sequin covered, tulle overlay. Spun from threads of silk from her home planet, she was excited to be showing off the craftsmanship of Yelik. From head to toe she was entirely decked out. Not to mention, the reds and pinks really seemed to compliment her skin and eyes, allowing the small pops of green to really catch the gaze of those she walked past.

 

Edited June 5, 2022 by Hallia Yellir

[Jo Marshall]

These are wonderful guys, well done! 

[Oddas Aria]

Great work!

Aria will be going for something simple.

[+ Hutch]

Loxley is wearing exactly the same as last year.

Because it was a lot of effort to get an actual suit made, so he has been (and will continue) to wear it for EVERY formal event until it falls apart. Weddings, funerals, awards ceremonies, fancy birthday meals - this suit.

 

 

He has considered changing the tie, just to mix it up a little.

 

[Lael Rosek-Skyfire]

Major Zaaia Leix rocks the red carpet this year in a classy, sophisticated white and black mesh dress that is turning heads.

Edited June 6, 2022 by Lael Rosek-Skyfire

[Piweh]

Lieutenant Commander Artinus Serinus from the Arrow arrived on the red carpet sporting a printed tux from Beauxtique in New Paris. According to Demetri Fulov, the designer, this red on black floral pattern is the perfect balance of feminine and masculine and is inspired by the warrior cultures of Fuedal Japan, and the Klingon Empire. It is a noted departure from wearing traditional Magna Roman formal, or a dress uniform like he has in the past.

Edited June 6, 2022 by Artinus Serinus

[Sal Taybrim]

Sal Taybrim is wondering if he forgot something.  Or how the years all blurred together so fast...

[Dekas]

Lieutenant Dekas is looking quite eye catching, choosing a rather feminine look this year. Wearing mostly stuff that he just thought was pretty at the time, along with having his nails painted. If anything on him is a name brand, he doesn't know it, he's just having a good time.

[+ Scotty Reade]

Scotty walking down the grand staircase. He decided to get fancy this year. 

 

[Kirsty L. Carpenter]

Quentin Collins repping Science Blue with his choice of tuxedo this year. 

 

((OOC: can I just say, this is ABSOLUTELY one of my all-time favorite things we do here. Everybody always looks so great and it’s just something for us, I just love it a lot, y’all.))

[Robin Hopper]

Kivik is wearing some traditional non-gendered J'naii formalwear and a pin representing the Pella flower from back home.

[Nathan Richards]

Ensign Nathan Richards is sporting a classy black suit with Engineering Gold bow tie. He is for sure ready for his red carpe appearence.

[Alora DeVeau]

I'm no good at this, so here's a picture. 😄

[Maz Rodan]

Lt.Commander Maz Rodan wondered if he’d beamed down to the right reception, or even the right decade. One of only a few individuals in the galaxy, Joined Trill and El-Aurians none withstanding, Maz actually remembers when mullets were the height of fashion. The First Officer of the Arrow sports a solid gold earring, which is only a clip on, since his mother would have a conniption.

[Ulasso]

Fresh from solving mysteries set on ancient Earth on the Holodeck, Ulasso liked his 1900s Earth fashion from the holo program a little too much. He decided to have a similar ensemble made for the Awards ceremony.

 

[Jalana]

While Jalana Rajel was not vain, she really liked the designs of her former host Famed Trill Fashion Designer Zindara and once more opted for one of her former designs. Rajel delivering ethereal goddess realness!

[+ Vitor S. Silveira]

Sil always has trouble when he is looking for the right tie, so he won't wear one

[Talos Dakora]

Talos went with a nice blue ensemble from the Elim Garak Collection. A vintage Starfleet lapel pin completes the look.

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[Wil Ukinix]

Because Lt Cmdr Wil Ukinix is unlucky in love, his second cousin First Secretary Keehani Ukinix from the diplomatic corp has volunteered to be his +1, much to his "delight"

Commentator: Keehani Ukinix is wearing a lovely red handmade outfit from the "Thorns of Betazed" collection by controversial Betazoid designer Nemivi Mex, while Wil Ukinix is wearing a suit and tie sourced from replicator CC3-12-A, Amity Outpost.