What happens when the Ludlow Mining Strike meets street fashion? We’re about to find out.
MIXED TASTE: THE LUDLOW MINING STRIKE + STREET FASHION
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater
2644 W 32nd Ave, Denver, CO 80211
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Doors open at 6 PM
Program begins at 7 PM
Featuring the Ludlow Mining Strike, a mini fashion show featuring Equilibrium Clothing, and Brandi McMichael of Fashion Denver on Street Fashion.
On Wednesday, August 26, Fashion Denver founder Brandi McMichael is taking the stage at MCA Denver’s Mixed Taste to talk about one of our very favorite subjects: STREET FASHION! 👟🔥
And because this is Fashion Denver, we couldn’t just talk about fashion.
We had to make it walk.
Ludlow Mining Strike + Street Fashion?!
That’s the wonderfully unexpected premise behind MCA Denver’s Mixed Taste.
The long-running lecture series pairs two seemingly unrelated topics for one evening of storytelling, curiosity, and unexpected connections. This edition brings together the Ludlow Mining Strike + Street Fashion at MCA Denver’s Holiday Theater.
The evening begins with Tony Garcia, a playwright, director, and actor who serves as the Executive Artistic Director of Su Teatro, one of the nation’s leading Chicano theaters. For decades, Tony’s work has preserved and expanded Chicano and Latino cultural narratives through original plays, performances, and community engagement.
Tony will take us into the story of the Ludlow Mining Strike, exploring an important and complicated chapter of Colorado history through his lens as a storyteller, artist, and longtime cultural leader.
And then, before Brandi takes the stage to dive into Street Fashion…
FASHION SHOW! 🔥👟🔥
A five-minute mini fashion show featuring Deb Henriksen’s Equilibrium Clothing will become the live bridge between Tony’s exploration of Ludlow and Brandi’s exploration of Street Fashion.
Ludlow Mining Strike with Tony Garcia → FASHION SHOW 👟🔥 → Street Fashion with Brandi McMichael
Two seemingly unrelated topics.
One runway in between.
And who knows what connections we’ll discover?
From the Street to the Runway
A five-minute mini fashion show will serve as the live transition between the two presentations, featuring designs by Denver designer Deb Henriksen of Equilibrium Clothing.
It’s quick. It’s local. It’s expressive.
And that’s exactly the point.
Street fashion has never belonged exclusively to traditional runways, glossy magazines or fashion houses. It comes from people.
It comes from sidewalks and skate parks. Music scenes and subcultures. Neighborhoods and nightlife. DIY kids, punks, hip-hop, surfers, skaters and generations of people who got dressed without asking the fashion establishment for permission.
The street has always had something to say.
And eventually, fashion started listening.
The mini runway show brings that idea to life before the Street Fashion presentation even begins. Rather than simply talking about clothing as a form of expression, we get to watch people move through a space wearing clothes created right here in Denver.
Street Fashion Through Brandi’s Eyes
Following the fashion show, Brandi will take the stage to share the history and culture of Street Fashion, along with her own perspective shaped by decades spent at the intersection of fashion, action sports, music, entrepreneurship and Denver’s creative community.
Long before Fashion Denver existed, Brandi was designing her B.Shigley handbags while working in the action sports world, traveling, exploring and absorbing inspiration from the people and cultures around her.
Those experiences helped shape a philosophy that continues to run through Fashion Denver today:
Style doesn’t have to come from the top down.
Sometimes the most influential fashion begins with somebody on a sidewalk wearing something in a way nobody has seen before.
Street fashion is personal.
It can communicate where we’re from, what music we listen to, what communities we belong to, what we reject and what we’re dreaming about.
Sometimes it becomes a movement.
Sometimes it becomes a billion-dollar trend.
And sometimes it’s simply one person getting dressed in the morning and deciding, “Yep. This feels like me.”
We love that.
Denver Fashion in the Mix
We’re especially excited to bring a little piece of Denver’s independent fashion community into Mixed Taste through our collaboration with Deb Henriksen and Equilibrium Clothing.
For five glorious minutes, the lecture stage becomes our runway.
Then the runway gives way to conversation.
Because fashion isn’t frivolous. Clothing carries history, identity, rebellion, creativity, community and culture.
There are stories walking around on our streets every single day.
On Wednesday night, we’re going to talk about them.
And naturally…
LET’S FRIKKIN’ GOOOOOO! 👟🔥