All I can ask is, "What happened to Fashion at The Park?" D town's version of the tents at Bryant Park. It was around for a few beautiful years and this past fall when I was anticipating snabbing a front row, nadda! No seat to be had! There are various metropolis's creating their own fashion week to brand their city as a fashion beacon. The city that I am most impressed with is Charleston.
The Charleston Fashion week is well organized, highly publicized and anticipated! Participation is growing and even their model search garnered over 700 entries! Wow! That is the direction Dallas needs to be headed. Everyone in town talks about how Dallas is a southern Fashion Mecca but are we really? I mean, how is that translating to the national fashion movement? It is not apparent that we are serious about presenting an innovative fashion week that garners the participation of emerging designers or peaks the interest of established ones either. At least not for the long haul.
I went to two previous Fashion at the Park fashion shows "in the tents" and it was awesome. DJ Lucy Wrubel was doing her thang perched in a DJ booth, all in black interns were everywhere, show goers were dressed to the nines and the energy was sick! I can not believe that it was so short lived! Well, a new crop of chicsters will be producing a Dallas Fashion Week come Fall 2010. Industry Creative PR will be of course behind the scenes. More details to come...
