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The Runway Collections
Dayton Fashion Week: The Collections
The Runway Collections are the capstone of the Dayton Fashion Week Designer Incubator Experience. In a weekend full of supporting emerging designers and local small businesses, community outreach initiatives, networking, education, and fun. Tentatively scheduled for March 21th-23rd, 2025, Dayton Fashion Week kicks off on Friday, March 21st with the return of Fashion, Mission, Mingle.
Fashion, Mission & Mingle will feature presentations and a panel discussion with industry insiders, while supporting, raising both awareness and money for area grassroots effort that are stepping up in major ways by empowering the to bring about positive change.Believe us when we say, you don't want to miss this celebration.
This experience will also feature:
** A Headlining Runway Experience
** Panel Discussions
** Speed Networking: here's your chance to connect with some of the areas established and up and coming fashion professionals and community leaders
** Fashion Plugs Have your 30 second elevator speech ready because this is your chance to plug your fashion business
** Community Outreach Plugs Have your 30 second elevator speech ready because this is your chance to plug your community outreach efforts
On Saturday, March 22nd Art, Wine, and Fashion returns with a headlining Designer from the Dayton Fashion Week Designer Incubator sharing the story of the inspiration behind their line and guide guest through creative exercises designed to help them tell their story via the painting process. We will also have a Chef on hand to help guest to create a customized entree based on their story and prepare a specialty entree on location, complete with a runway presentation. Making this a Fashion Experience like no other!
On the evening of March 22nd A Taste of (DE-FI)ance will feature a headlining designer from our incubator. Fashion has never looked or tasted so good–no there won’t be any Lady Gaga inspired meat dresses making their way down the runway! But The Taste of (DE-FI)ance is inspired by Italian Designer and Chef Anna Marconi’s Taste of Runway. We pair a skilled Chef up with fashion designers to create three course meals that not only compliment the origin of the fabric used in the designs but will also draw on artistic skills by using only ingredients and colors that reflects the design. For example, if the main fabric in being used in a design is Silk, then chances are the Chef will create a Chinese inspired appetizer that looks just like the design on the runway.
On Sunday, March 23rd, well close out Dayton Fashion Week with designer showcases headlined by (DE-FI) Designer Alum.
More details are coming soon.
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