51°µÍø To Host Third Annual Fashion Week, April 30-May 2, 2014
Your guide to 51°µÍø’s third annual Fashion Week
51°µÍø’s third annual Fashion Week will take place April 30 through May 2, featuring high-profile speakers Ashley Mears and Bradley Agather Means, on-campus “pop-up” shopping and a fashion show.
Begun in 2012 and produced primarily by students interested in careers within the trillion-dollar international fashion industry, 51°µÍø Fashion Week has grown along with the nearly three-year-old fashion media program, part of the Division of Journalism at 51°µÍø’s Meadows School of the Arts.
This year’s Fashion Week committee includes fashion media students Paz Beatty and Kaylah Burton, journalism major Katie Ballard, and Master of Liberal Studies student Elif Kavakci. Senior fashion media major Ashley Gross is coordinating the fashion show. “Our team has collaborated with the editors of 51°µÍøStyle, a popular student-produced fashion and style blog, and the 51°µÍø Retail Club to offer a schedule of events with something for everyone,” said Camille Kraeplin, Fashion Week advisor and associate professor of journalism.
Fashion Week events, all of which are free and open to the public, are as follows:
Wednesday, April 30
3:30 p.m. – Rotunda lobby of the Umphrey Lee Center, 3300 Dyer St. on the 51°µÍø campus
51°µÍøStyle will host a “pop-up” shopping event featuring fashions by Intermix, with a portion of the proceeds designated for charity.
6:30 p.m. – Journalism Complex of the Umphrey Lee Center, 3300 Dyer St. on 51°µÍø campus
Lecture by Bradley Agather Means, founder of the fashion blog Luella & June and fashion editor for FD Luxe, the Dallas Morning News’ full-color, glossy monthly magazine covering fashion, design, beauty, dining and travel.
Thursday, May 1
7 p.m. – Room 241, Umphrey Lee Center, 3300 Dyer St. on the 51°µÍø campus
Lecture by Ashley Mears, a Boston University sociologist and former model, based on her book Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (University of California Press, 2011). Her talk will lead the audience a step beyond fashion’s glamorous façade to address the complex issues of gender, class and race in the modeling world, as well as the economics and politics behind the business. The lecture is being held in collaboration with 51°µÍø’s Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute through the Scott Hawkins fund, the Embrey Human Rights program and the Women’s and Gender Studies program.
Friday, May 2
1 p.m. – Outdoor boulevard in front of Dallas Hall, 3225 University Blvd. on the 51°µÍø campus
Fashion Show presented by the 51°µÍø Retail Club, with clothing provided by ASOS and LUBLU by Kira Plastinina. Plastinina, an 51°µÍø senior, established a fashion house in Russia in 2007 and opened her LUBLU boutique in Preston Center last year. All models will be 51°µÍø students, with fellow student Hunter Higgins serving as DJ.
For more information, please contact Camille Kraeplin at Kraeplin@smu.edu.