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Cassandra Casas Rojas

Cassandra Casas Rojas is a Mexican American designer and founder of the CasasRojas clothing brand. The inspiration for her work revolves around innovation and reinventing the future to be truly timeless. According to Cassandra, the whole idea behind the CasasRojas clothing is based upon the idea of the evolution of the women suit. As Cassandra states, “a women suit is known to be tailored, built in woven fabrics, but why can’t it be comfortable, and still feel like the look rises to the occasion, why can’t the idea of the women suit be reinvented? No one says it can’t be, it just hasn’t been done.” According to her website, CasasRojas is a brand that strives to create designer apparel at an attainable price and releases small runs of exclusive pieces of clothing every couple of months. As also stated on her website, Casas Rojas believes that "A woman should have the luxury of feeling like a badass but also be comfortable." and also states, "I plan to interpret and push the concept of the women suit in fleeces, interlocks, and jerseys."

Website: CasasRojas.co

Instagram: @_casasrojas

Early Life

Cassandra Casas Rojas was born in Monterey, Mexico on January 3rd, 1995. She Quickly moved to the United States when she was only 2 years old and grew up in the small town of Dinwiddie, Virginia. She grew up doing sports like cheerleading and dance and credits these sports for having taught her discipline, and the results of hard work. Casas Rojas recalls that while she grew up in a small town and did everything she thought she was supposed to do in order to get into a top school and become a doctor, she found herself second guessing her career choice and questioning whether or not she would be able to frequently confront loss as a part of that job. At this point in her life, Cassandra remembers feeling a bit lost in terms of what she wanted to do in life, and that is when she began to ask herself, "Hmm where does my clothes come from? people wear clothes every day, what job opportunities exist behind my clothes?" This question is what sparked her interest in the field of fashion. From there on, while Cassandra knew it would not be easy and she was aware that she might have to work twice as hard to catch up to and compete with students who had dreamt about becoming fashion designers their whole life, she was up for the challenge.

Education

Eventually, Cassandra attended Kent State University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design and a minor in Marketing + Entrepreneurship.

Distinguished Honors and Events

- September 2017 International Youth Design Competition in Beijing, China

- October 2018 International Youth Design Competition in Beijing, China

- April 2018 Kent State University Alchemy Annual Fashion School Show in Kentucky, Ohio

- April 2018 Undergraduate Research Symposium in Kentucky, Ohio

- April 2018 Fusion IFFITI Student Design Competition in Beijing, China - March 2019 iD Emerging Designer Awards in Dunedin, New Zealand

- October 2021 Fashion Forward Disruption Through Design Exhibition in Dunedin, New Zealand

Notable Achievements

- Casas Rojas competed in her first competition in China and this was her first collection to go international.

- Cassandra's senior thesis went global and won. (Thesis linked below)

- Casa Rojas became a global published designer and lived in New Zealand for a year in an exhibition and was published in a celebration of 20 years of fashion in Dunedin.

- She also went on to launch her own brand called CasasRojas which she still runs today (linked below)