MYTHS & LEGENDS
The 5th Annual Green Is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza
March 8 & 9 at 8pm, Doors and Reception at 7pm
Carbondale Recreation Center

We are proud to sponsor this wonderful event in Carbondale! ROAD TRIP!

The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents the 5th Annual Green Is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza on March 8th and 9th. This year we unravel ancient myths and legends, some familiar and some mysterious, to draw out age-old themes of earth and humanity that continue to be relevant in our current social climate. Fashion and environment dominate the journey. High fashion, as well as wearable art, graces the runway with multi-media backgrounds, music and theatrics. Over 100 creatives from throughout the valley and beyond come together to create a show that dazzles and dares!

Myths and Legends is taking a step up technically, as well. Thanks to True Nature Healing Arts and Alchemy, CCAH is exploring the use of “projection mapping”. This new technology allows images to move and wrap around the set bringing these images to life. Many cultures are explored throughout the show with appearances from the Hopi Spider Woman, Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of the skies … Read more!

A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD {A Stylish, One-Woman Show to Benefit Denver Film Society’s}
Part of the Women+Film Voices Film Festival
Sunday, March 3rd at 7pm
L2 Arts and Culture Center

Fashion Denver is proud to sponsor this fashionably fabulous event!   Enter FASHD and you will get a $25 ticket for the second tier GA seats. Just make sure to  pick that specific seat type.

An evening of wit, wisdom…and a whisper of gossip makes its Denver debut on SUNDAY, MARCH 3 at 7:00 PM at the L2 Arts and Cultural Center, on the corner of Colfax and Elizabeth (just west of SIE Film Center.)

A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD is co-written and performed by Susan Claassen whose performance in this 90-minute show has been called “utterly captivating.”

Tickets start at just $35.00, and are now on sale at denverfilm.org. VIP tickets are $100.00, includes gold circle seating, a post-show champagne reception and a picture perfect photo with “Edith”.

Honored with an unprecedented eight Oscars, Edith Head remains one of the most powerful and influential women in Hollywood history. In her six decades of costume design, she dressed most of the great stars from … Read more!

Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution 

Thursday night was a truly incredible collaboration of talented people! I was very excited to be a part of the showing of Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution and the reception that followed (where I met Pat Cleveland…OMG! But more about that later).

The film was so interesting and well put together! I think, a lot of the time, people dismiss fashion as something that’s frilly and unimportant. Shallow, even. But what I’ve always felt is that fashion is a visual and artistic representation of where we are in history. Versailles ’73 captured that so well. It showed how five American designers, not taken seriously in the global fashion industry, were able to shatter the doubts of the rest of the world. They were able to prove themselves, and the fashion show at Versailles put American designers on the same plane as other respected designers around the world. These American designers came to Versailles to compete against the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, Pierre Cardin, and Emanuel Ungaro. The American designers, after putting on a fabulously entertaining show, then became household names. You might just recognize them: Anne Klein, Stephen Burrows, … Read more!

Maya gets caught up on all of the exciting events that Fashion Denver is participating in and gives us a wrap up!

By Maya

Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution
Thursday, January 31^st at 7pm
Sie Film Center
2510 East Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80206

For more information and to purchase tickets, click here!

Fashion Denver is beyond excited to present this fashion documentary! Set in 1973 in Versailles, France(ooh-la-la!), the film shows the stunning designs of Givenchy, Dior, Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent, and Pierre Cardin (Vive la France!), as well as Halston, Oscar de la Renta, Anne Klein, Stephen Burrows, and Bill Blass (USA! USA!). And when a group of African American models board the plane to walk the runway in France, they make more than a fashion statement. They make a statement about the changing times, and end up putting African Models (and American fashion) on the map.

As if that didn’t sound exciting enough, the post-film reception and fashion show is sure to be marvelous! Fashion Denver’s own Brandi Shigley and her band B.Sue will be serenading your earholes, and the talented designers Gabriela Martinez and Sahar Pazirandeh are going to be showing off some beautiful designs. … Read more!