Fashion students showcase talents
On Saturday night Lethbridge College fashion design students and models from the college’s dramatic arts program joined forces to bring a one of a kind fashion show to city residents. The annual “I’ll Show You Mine ... Deconstructing Costume, Constructing Fashion” event allowed students in the first and second-year Fashion Design and Sustainable Production program at the college to show case their talents for a live audience, and to get a taste of the high fashion world many will enter into in their post-college careers. The Herald was given a sneak peek of the show at the dress rehearsal Saturday morning. The student designers had to design and create five complete outfits for the show, everything form formal evening wear, to playful swimwear, to far-out fashion oddities.
“It’s nice because you get to share your accomplishments with everybody else,” said Tiara Crow Flag, one of the student designers being featured in I’ll Show You Mine. “And this show displays it in such a fun way. It’s such a nice way for all of our classmates to get together and have a good night together.”
Fashion student Bruce Tiefenbach stagemanaged the show. He said timing was everything when you put on such an event.
“It’s a ton of fun and hard work,” he admitted. “There is a lot of preparation. It is months of planning, but it all pays off because it is a lot of fun. We have models changing between walks. We need people changing them. They need to know what’s going on. It takes a lot of cooperation to carry it all off.”
Fashion Design and Sustainable Production course instructor, and fashion show producer, Brenda Brandley said the show was intended to help give her students a sense of what they might encounter in the fashion business once they graduate.
“Everybody wears clothes, and it is the third largest industry in the world,” she explained. “We really love to doing it, and our students get so excited to show their stuff, and to let people know what they actually accomplished (in the course). It is amazing with all the garments they produce, and the research, and the marketing, they do.”
Brandley was also grateful for the community support her students always receive when they put on their annual, year-end show.
“We usually have a great turnout for the show, and the community is wonderful,” she said.
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