Sparkly dresses, high heels and bold prints strutted into Eastern Market Shed 3 on Friday for Michigan Fashion Week’s 10th anniversary show.
More than five hundred people attended the elegant evening.
The event began at 4 pm and was scheduled to continue well into the night with more than 30 designers. from all over Michigan showing their designs, which range from children’s clothing to haute couture.
This year’s theme was “It’s a Jungle Out There” to shine a light on how the world has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many designers presented their summer collections, which were looks suitable for a vacation or a trip to the beach.
Samaiyah Abdur-Rahman’s Haus of Imani launched its first fashion collection on the catwalk. It consisted of swimwear for men and women in eye-catching colorful patterns.
There were not only fashion brands but also many vendors.
Vendors and entrepreneurs included leather bag designer Carolyn Schief and beauty concierge Nicole Norman, owner of a model beauty market called Bliss Beauty.
Norman’s mobile beauty market, which started in 2021, consists of clothing and beauty brands. The truck includes Branded Hair Co. products like edge control, hairspray and more.
Norman, the owner, says that in July, the beauty truck will go on a three-month beauty tour to different states.
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“Right now I’m going to the salons or trying to keep up with different events, whether it’s with the Eastern Market or Fashion Avenue in Livernois,” Norman said.
MI Fashion Week has a program called the International Fashion Society that specializes in helping models and designers develop their careers.
Fashion designer LaTerry Mohsin, owner of Sew Modest Studio, believes events like this are important for reaching out to the fashion community in Detroit.
“Events like this allow us to bring everything together, network and bring all the fashion communities together in one space,” said Mohsin.
While Mohsin doesn’t run fashion shows, she creates a fashion space for younger designers at Sew Modest Studio to create dresses and learn basic sewing skills.
Michigan Fashion Week is an organization that focuses on building and connecting talent in fashion design, modeling, photography, and other fields of creativity. It was created by Loren Hicks in 2012 and has grown every year.
The next Michigan Fashion Week event is the Fashion Summit which takes place in September.
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