MICA hosts the Annual Benefit Fashion Show, Reflections, on Saturday, April 17 at 8 p.m. in Brown Center’s Falvey Hall, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., with a preview for the MICA community only on Friday, April 16 at 10 p.m.”
Link: http://www.mica.edu/News/Annual_Benefit_Fashion_Show_April_17.html.
This year the always sold-out event features 11 practical and outrageous collections in a wide array of disciplines. Famed photographer and MICA alumnus Derek Blanks ’00 will be a celebrity guest and MC at the show.
The theme and title of the 2010 show, Reflections, looks at the evolution of fashion in the past, present and future. Fashion has a way of being in a constant cycle of rebirth, emulating the past while innovating the looks of present society. It reveals what has already been seen, and then imitates it in a new and innovative way. It is a physical manifestation of current thoughts and societal issues, cycling back to the theme of fashion as a reflection.
Prior to the show, Vintage and Vogue, a benefit sale and silent auction of gently worn, timeless designer accessories and apparel will take place, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Brown Center’s Leidy Atrium.
After the show, audience members are invited to mix and mingle with the designers and view an exhibition of fashion-inspired photography, illustration and fiber arts in the Falvey Hall lobby as well as the Rosenberg Gallery, both in the Brown Center, on display Tuesday, April 13-Tuesday, April 20. Fashion pictorials of the students’ designs photographed by Blanks will be part of the exhibition.
