Phoenix Fashion Week benefits Susan G. Komen for the Cure Phoenix with the Fashionably Pink Celebrity Fashion Show. Each designer will design one outfit inspired by the color pink for the runway. The apparel will be worn by celebrities and breast cancer survivors, sponsors will silent-auction off unique pink items.
Phoenix Fashion Week is a 3-day event featuring fashion experts, fashion workshops, fashion gives back, and of course runway shows. Phoenix Fashion Weekproduced a “Fashion Forward” fashion show and party celebrating the hottest movie premier of the season at the W Scottsdale. In continuing his dream of “Bridging Designers and Buyers”, Brian Hill along with the team of Phoenix Fashion Week partnered with W Scottsdale and Macy’s to produce the Sex and the City 2 Fashion Show, Wet deck party and also, Arizona’s first advance screening of the actual movie; and it was huge success.
Models ripped the runway with Macy’s fashions from chic and casual attire to alluring bathing suits. The fashion show was complimented with belly dancing and ended with four models which imitated the four friends and leading cast of Sex and the City, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. The team of Phoenix Fashion Week left no detail to chance. From the four special drinks designed again after the four friends and leading cast of the movie to the heavy gift bags which included Sex and the City Martini Glasses, A Dirty Blonde Cocktail, Sarah Jessica Parker fragrance and an endless pile of special offers and discounts.
Again, Brian Hill, Executive Director of Phoenix Fashion Week along with his team of more than 40 passionate fashion professionals pulled off another fabulous fashion show at the elegant but stylish W Scottsdale Hotel. The evening was just fabulous and adding a Martini under the stars ended this evening with class.
Phoenix Fashion Week kicks off for its sixth year on Thursday, Oct. 7, featuring a new focus on sustainability and green living, as well as a “Fashionably Pink” celebrity fashion show to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Phoenix Fashion Week will have everyone seeing green, as the three-day event will be highlighting healthy environmental practices as the concepts apply to fashion.
More than 200 designers were invited to apply for runway slots for this year’s fashion week, with 24 established designers, 10 emerging designers and six accessory designers ultimately nabbing those coveted spots. So rest assured, what you’re about to see is the best of the best selected from all across the Valley.
Attendees, be prepared to look over with a keen eye all that’s up-and-coming in the designers’ Holiday 2010 and Spring 2011 collections as you peruse the runway shows, trunk sales and workshops showcasing pret-a-porter, evening, resort collections, luxury sportswear, celebrity designer, high-fashion swimwear and chic accessories.
Phoenix Fashion Week in its sixth year is once again gaining national acclaim for bringing charitable endeavors to the runway. For the third year, the organization is partnering up with Susan G. Komen for the Cure Phoenix, the local chapter of the national foundation to help raise cancer awareness. Born out of a promise between sisters, the Susan G. Komen Foundation has become the largest network of people with the common goal of fighting to end breast cancer over the last 26 years. With over 100,000 survivors and activists and even more supporters, the foundation is constantly finding more ways to voice their mission and create awareness for the cause.
At 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, over 30 designers will open Phoenix Fashion Week with Be Fashionably Pink, a celebrity fashion show at the W Scottsdale benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure Phoenix. Phoenix Fashion Week has also created silent auction event in an effort to raise money for the foundation. Throughout the evening attendees will be able to bid for select items generously donated by participating designers, artists and sponsors. 100% of the proceeds from the auction will go to the Susan G Komen Foundation. Guest will also have a chance to donate directly to the foundation the night of the event.
There’s no Bryant Park here. Nor is there a Heidi Klum-produced reality show competition leading up to it.
So what? There are reasons aplenty to be proud of Phoenix Fashion Week 2010. The sixth annual shindig features more than 30 emerging and established designer runway shows, swanky after-parties, designer sample sales, educational seminars, workshops, a film premier, and thousands of guests. Oh, and PFW happens to make some serious contributions to charitable organizations.
The event supports Helping Hands Arizona, Partners in Malawi (an HIV wellness center in Africa), and Susan G. Komen for the Cure Phoenix. This year, everyone will “think pink” to benefit the Komen foundation with a celebrity pink carpet event followed by the “Fashionably Pink Celebrity Runway Show.”
By the time the designs from Smoke & Mirrors hit the runway, it was standing room only and DJ Mr. P-Body’s musical selections had the crowd salivating for some glamour and, not uncoincidentally, some exposed skin. And they got them.
Smoke & Mirrors designers Michelle Chaplin and Emily Brandle presented their upcoming spring/summer collection of little dresses, shorty halter-top rompers, and stuff like that. They stuck with a few boldly printed fabrics, which probably makes mixing and matching a snap if you want to buy multiple pieces, but if you don’t care for teal and magenta, you might not be nuts about this particular season at the house of S&M. I do like the tight cropped pants/flirty top combos they look really chic and kind of ’50s L.A., and one of them was shown in subdued, classy black and white.
Speaking of flirty, maybe you already know this, but the doormen and serving wenches at Radius, the home of Friday’s PFW after-party, are especially smiley-faced and adorable. Most of the female drink-bringers looked spiffy in high black boots and tiny tight dresses, and the rest were wearing what remains of the world’s inventory of perilously low-slung trousers (remember those?). The gents weren’t so stylin’, but their combo of buffness and diplomacy is beautiful to watch.
A highlight of the late evening at Radius was a runway show of “Halloween” costumes from Yandy.com. If you check that link, you’ll see that just about anything can say “Halloween” if you make it scanty enough and maybe add some thigh-high stockings and stilettos. Like, say, Disney’s Cinderella.
If you can track down Smoke & Mirrors’ previous seasons’ inventory, their black-and-gold-lace Babe dress is a super-cute empire-waist mini, with a low-cut, strappy bodice, that would dazzle any holiday bash. Folks were also snapping up Rekha Krishnamurthi’s Divine dZigns. The colorful, elegant cotton-blend tops come in styles to suit almost every body type, and when Krishnamurthi takes them back to New York, they’re gone — unless a savvy buyer gets them into a Valley boutique.