Category Archives: Arts & Entertainment

Denver’s mini Project Runway: A blast from the past

Tonight I was watching Project Runway All Stars featuring Denver’s Mondo Guerra and it brought me back a few years. In 2007, I was one of the producers on The Fashion Project at Tamarac. Designers competed head to head to win a trip to NYC. Mondo won the competition. In this excerpt, designers had $100.00 to spend at Ace Hardware and made a dress. In Project Runway All Stars, Mondo chose binders, trashbags and tape. In our Ace competition, he used garbage bags, gumballs, and chicken wire. This video brings back memories. Filmed by 2 of my favorite film makers Mas Hacienda and Ben Kronberg and featuring several of Denver’s amazing designers…

Watch the 1st episode of Project Runway All Stars and follow the excitement! You can also watch live at The Beauty Bar every Thursday evening. We are so proud of Mondo and our other past Colorado contestants on Project Runway; Fallene Wells, Julie Tierney, and Gretchen Jones!… Read more!

Call out for designers for FROCK OUT 2012!

DPL’s Fresh City Life announces a call to designers.  For their third design competition, Frock Out: Come Undone, Fresh City Life partners with Brandi Shigley of Fashion Denver and they’ll host Denver’s young, creative designers for Spring’s most exciting fashion event.

Frock Out: Come Undone: Independent Designers Challenge

The Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life  and Brandi Shigley / Fashion Denver announce a call to designers for Frock Out: Independent Designers Challenge – a runway show and exhibit.

Juried designers will show five designs (one designer’s choice created especially for Frock Out, and four challenge pieces that can be new or from the designer’s current collections).  Twelve designers will be accepted for this runway show and exhibit.

Challenge Requirements-

·      All designers must schedule an interview with the jury panel on Saturday, January 21st 9:00am-1:00pm. To schedule your interview time, please contact carrie@fashiondenver.com .

·      Portfolio reviews will be held at the audtions.

·      One challenge piece must be completed, ready to exhibit and delivered to The Denver Public Library Fresh City Lounge on or before March 14.

·      The other four designs must be completed and ready for runway rehearsal on Wednesday, April 18.

·      All challenge designers must … Read more!

Young Adult Special Screening!

This movie looks fun fun fun!!

Post a picture of you in highschool to our Fashion Denver facebook wall and you will win a Young Adult T-shirt! You must come to Fashion Denver to pick it up.

FREE SCREENING!

You and a guest are invited to a special advance screening of YOUNG ADULT on Tuesday, December 13th at 7pm at the AMC Cherry Creek. Please visit www.gofobo.com/rsvp and enter RSVP code: FADENJHYA to download your complimentary passes. (Limit 2 passes per person, while supplies last. Passes do not guarantee admission. Seating is on a first come, first seated basis. ARRIVE EARLY.)

http://www.youngadultmovie.com

Opening Date: December 16, 2011 (Wide)|

Rating: R
Running Time:  94 minutes

Synopsis:

Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.

“Young Adult” reunites Jason Reitman, Academy Award® nominated director of “Juno,” and Academy Award® winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody.

Win this t-shirt from Young Adult, the movie! Read more!

Models at Tinsel

Not everybody is a size 3 and 5’10 and that’s okay. In fact, that’s the fun that we love to have at Fashion Denver and our markets! We bring in women and men from all over our creative community and have them strut their stuff on our “runway” aka “mansion stairwell.”

Tinsel is going to bring out some pretty amazing people to strut their stuff.. just to name a few….

Mia Voss: The brains behind CRAVE Denver and The Mia Connect

Coles Whalen: Singer / songwriter

Ryan DiFranco: Entrepreneur

Chella Negro: Musician & creative organizer

Abby Jordan: Comedian

Kathy Bacon: Mentor and non profit professional

Megs Burd: Bingo hostess, Fashion Denver Saturday shop girl and woman about town

and more!!… Read more!