Iconic Star Wars voice actor Ashley Eckstein may be beloved by fans of the galaxy far, far away for her work as Ahsoka Tano , but she soon will take on the task that makes her the most nervous she is for anything : hosting the Her Universe Fashion Show at San Diego Comic-Con. The 2024 event will also be the tenth anniversary show, as Her Universe was able to produce a virtual version when live in-person wasn't possible. She spoke with CinemaBlend ahead of the fashion show on July 25 about the Mattel partnership for 2024 and the spread of geek couture.
"Geek couture" refers to how fandoms can be represented with high fashion that goes above and beyond cosplay, with Eckstein both hosting the Her Universe Fashion Show to showcase the designers as well as showing off some of the fashions herself. When I recently spoke with Eckstein, I asked how it feels for her to see geek couture spreading not only at SDCC, but beyond conventions at this point, and she shared: It's something that I'm beyond proud of, and it is something that I will take a bit of credit for. Not for the geek fashion trend – fans were designing geek-inspired fashion for years and years and years.
I just saw it at San Diego Comic-Con, I saw that the fans were using the hallways of San Diego Comic-Con as their runway, and I just thought it was such a travesty that the fans didn't have a proper runway to walk on. When we started the first fashion show, I had to talk about it with confidence, and so I came up with t.