Category Archives: Fashion Events around town

BACKSTAGE: 1990’s London Fashion Week Exhibition

A truly rare insight into the 1990’s London backstage fashion scene.
Bit Factory Gallery
851 Santa Fe Drive
April 1 – 30, 2016; Tue -Sat 11am-4pm
Opens on Friday April 15 until 10pm


LondonFashionWeek-KateMossA retrospective of photography portraits taken backstage during London Fashion Week in the 1990s with a focus on the early shows of fashion legend Alexander McQueen. The beautiful images by British photographer Gary Wallis provide a true insider’s view into rare and special moments in time.

The initial shows of designers including McQueen, Antonio Berardi, Robert Cary Williams and Matthew Williamson are captured stylishly on supermodels such as Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. The McQueen first collection images have been hidden away unseen for over 20 years until very recently.

http://bitfactory.net/exhibitions/   

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Artist Gary Wallis
Exhibition by Mario Abela.Creative
CONTACT:  Mario
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Fashion on Display at Darling! … A Fashion Fundraiser

Darling! A Fashion Fundraiser
A Fashion FundraiserMOPS International, Denver, CO
Thursday, April 14, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Palazzo Verdi
6363 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle,
Greenwood Village, CO

COST  $100 per person,
BOGO for Current MOPS Moms

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MOPS International {Mothers of Preschoolers} and women’s clothing retailer Evereve are partnering for an evening of fashion and fundraising featuring local moms this spring.

MopsDarling! A Fashion Fundraiser will be held Thursday, April 14th at the exquisite Palazzo Verdi in Greenwood Village, CO. The event includes dinner by Epicurean Catering as well as a fashion show featuring local MOPS moms modeling the Evereve Spring line.

The 2016 MOPS theme A Fierce Flourishing intersects beautifully with Evereve’s mission: To inspire every mom to embrace her beauty and power. Evereve celebrates and empowers moms with contemporary, trend-driven apparel and accessories. With over 60 locations across the U.S. including Aspen Grove, Belmar, Cherry Creek North, Park Meadows Mall and Boulder, Evereve has been noted in 5280, InStyle, Real Simple, People Style Watch, Self, Fast Company and the November 2015 issue of Inc. magazine. 

This year’s keynote speaker is Danielle Stangler, former MOPS mom and Founder / CEO of NeatCheeksRead more!

Green is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza 2016

On Friday March 12th I was fortunate enough to attend the Green is the New Black Fashion extravaganza and transformation fashion show at the Carbondale Rec Center in the Roaring Fork Valley. For the 8th year in a row, the Carbondale Arts and Humanities Council produces this event as a fundraiser for the Roaring Fork school district. Each year, the show is done with a different theme to send a powerful and motivational message to the audience. This year, the theme of the show was transformation.

I was elated to see that the small, delightful, and quant little town of Carbondale could give rise to such a fabulous production. The show featured 20 designers based in many different locations. From Carbondale itself, to Los Angeles to even Milan, Italy; the diversity of designers was vast. To separate the designers up a bit, this show did something I’ve never seen before. It featured dancing and mime segments before, during, and after the
models strutted down the runway. The performances all emphasized the transformation message/theme to the audience with powerful scenes from a butterfly growing its wings, to a mime performance about a young girl becoming a woman. At first I thought … Read more!

Grand Opening – DENV3R.CO – Colorado Inspired Apparel

Grand Opening – DENV3R.CO – Colorado Inspired Apparel
Created by Colorado Entrepreneurs and Designers  

9. Image of storeMarch 9, 2016 – DENV3R.CO is launching a retail store in the hip and fast growing DU neighborhood, right at the foot of the Broadway & Evans rail station.  

 -Join your Colorado friends in celebrating local entrepreneurship, design and fashion. 

 -Check out Colorado brands that are making noise nationwide.

-Get a peak at the design studio and meet the people behind the apparel created for numerous Colorado businesses and brands. 

-Support Colorado entrepreneurs and be one of the first to wear the fashionable, Colorado crafted apparel.  All DENV3R.CO products will be sold at a 20% discount.  

1. DENV3R.CO Family_ Jeremy (owner), wife Zofia (ESTAINE co-founder), Oreo and baby Ezra

The grand opening will take place on Friday, April 1st, 2016 at 2140 South Delaware St. #101 from 4 to 8 pm.  Evans Station Lofts is the newest and most progressive affordable housing community in Colorado that also allows Denver’s creatives and entrepreneurs to stay within the Denver city limits in a hip, award winning building.

“The dream for DENV3R.CO was not only to open a store that celebrates Colorado, but also to support local entrepreneurs by giving them an opportunity to get products into retail and in front of Read more!

Massif Fashion Week: Opening Night Runway Showcase

Fashion for a cause, Design for a difference.
Opening Night Runway Showcase
Saturday, April 2nd 2016
Massif Studios
2191 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80210

Massif Fashion WeekMassif Fashion Week (MFW) is an intimate runway event catered to retail buyers, fashion  enthusiasts, and the garment industry as a whole.

Massif will provide a relaxed atmosphere with a focus on high quality, ready-to-wear collections with an emphasis on construction and attention to detail. Join MFW for an evening of runway fashion, art, photography, and fun followed by a few days of fashion pop-up shop displays in the studio.

This season will include collections from J.Rhoden Designs, Skea, Armada, and Gino Velardi.

Massif Fashion WeekMFW is honored to be supporting Extended Hands For Hope. Proceeds from the event will go to EHH to a local shelter that protects victims of sex trafficking.

The opening night runway event and silent auction is scheduled for Sat. April 2, 2016 at Massif Studios 2191 S. Broadway.

For more information, tickets, and VIP seat reservations please visit massiffashionweek.com
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