Our Crowdfunding Groups
Who Are We?
STITCH is a fashion and photography publication housed in Northwestern University. Since its creation in 2006, the student-run magazine distributes multiple issues per year to the student body, the Evanston community, and select stores in Chicago. It is wholly funded and produced by student efforts.
The mission of STITCH is simple: to set fashion free. STITCH's mission is to bring fashion to the forefront of Northwestern’s campus, examine the industry with a critical lens, and not take fashion at face value. We strive to provide a creative outlet for both our readers and creators. We believe in the power of fashion as a form of self-expression and aim to provide a platform for all students to share that with the Northwestern community.
Our Work:
We’re on the Internet at stitchfashion.com and stitchnorthwestern.com: here, we have digital versions of our print magazine, online editorial pieces, podcast episodes, and all the other digital content that we create. We also have Facebook and Instagram pages, where we have street style and other social media–centric content!
Our Goal:
STITCH is always growing and changing, and we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to share our love of fashion. Recently, we’ve started expanding into multimedia content such as video look books and podcasts, as well as social media–centric content such as street style features. Because of this, our needs in terms of equipment and technology are ever increasing. Thus, the purpose of our project is to expand our technological capabilities as an organization and enable our creators with improved equipment based on our growing needs in digital content creation.
Additionally, we’re working to set fashion free by making STITCH as accessible as possible. We’re hoping to make STITCH membership open to students of all backgrounds by purchasing creative equipment for our team so that prospective members of our organization are not limited by the equipment they already have. We want to make sure that anyone can join STITCH, even if they don’t own an expensive camera or audio equipment.
Help Us Set Fashion Free:
Content creation is expensive: a single lapel microphone costs $50 and a DSLR camera could cost up to $3,000, or even more. So, we’d like your help in helping us fund a pool of equipment for use by STITCH staffers for years to come. We’re excited about the opportunity to explore and expand new types of content such as video look books and profiles, collaborative photo shoots, and much more. Every single dollar raised will go directly toward increasing our creative capabilities and will be greatly appreciated!
$10 covers one full month of domain hosting for our website, stitchfashion.com. Keep our content alive and help us reach new audiences!
It's expensive to pay for the Adobe software that all of our designers on staff use to create graphics and spreads for our online and print magazines. With $20, you can help us pay for a month of Adobe suite for one of our designers.
With $30, you can help a STITCH photographer take better, more professional photos by funding the purchase of a tripod for our photography and multimedia teams. Give the gift of literal stability!
$50 funds the purchase of a lapel microphone for our multimedia team. With this, we can create amazing, professional multimedia content and allow those without professional audio equipment to realize their multimedia content dreams!
With $75, you can help us make more content in the field and get more footage by funding the purchase of an external battery pack for our multimedia team's video cameras. With this, we can stay out longer in the field and get more amazing footage!
For $100, you can help us greatly improve the quality of our photoshoots by funding the purchase of a backdrop. With this, we can take amazing, professional-level photos at our editorial photoshoots!
For $250, you'll be able to help us fund the purchase of a new lens for the photography team. This will help us greatly improve our capabilities as a team, and will allow photographers without access to lenses chances to improve their skills and content.
$500 will help us purchase a set of strobes for our photography setup, which will greatly increase the quality of our photography content. Having access to strobes will also give our photographers the opportunity to gain experience with professional-level photography equipment, which will serve them well in the future!
$1079 fully funds three annual Adobe Suite subscriptions for three of our design, multimedia, or photography team members. With this, we'll be able to give STITCH members who cannot afford the Adobe Suite opportunities to learn professional-level creative software, giving them access to both increased content creation capabilities as well as professional development opportunities.
With $2000, we'll be able to purchase a DSLR camera for our team to keep in perpetuity. With this, you'll help us provide opportunities for individuals without DSLR cameras to contribute to STITCH, and will help us lower the financial burdens and barriers that come with magazine membership.
