The Runway Report: What’s Hip. What’s Hot. What’s Now!
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| LaFredia Brown-Morris |
The World’s Largest Traveling Fashion Show Celebrates 51 Years
Ebony Fashion Fair is set to deliver a riveting fashion extravaganza with The Runway Report: What’s Hip. What’s Hot. What’s Now!
Fabulous meets fierce in the 51st annual fashion show as the latest trends and unique styles are unveiled. The YMI Cultural Center will debut The Runway Report in Asheville on October 29, 7:00 p.m., at the spacious Orange Peel on Biltmore Avenue.
Commanding the catwalk will be 13 alluring models who will work the runway in designs by a host of the best designers in the world, including Christian Lacroix, Sarli, b. Michaels, Carolina Herrera, Ruben Singer, and Jean-Louis Scherrer.
Each $25 ticket purchase includes a copy of Ebony Fashion Fair
magazine. In addition, attendees will have a choice of a one-year
subscription to Ebony magazine or a six-month subscription to Jet
magazine. Incredible door prizes will also be given away during
intermission by the show’s sponsors. Ticket holders will have a chance
to win round-trip airfare for two to any destination, courtesy of
American Airlines or American Eagle.
Other prizes include a one-year supply of hair care items from Luster’s
Pink collection and products from Fashion Fair Cosmetics, the number
one cosmetic company in the world for women of color.
Ebony Fashion Fair is fully equipped with special effects, hip-hop and
R&B music, and all the entertainment of a Broadway show. Known for
its commitment to giving back to the community, the show has donated
over $55 million to charitable organizations and scholarship funds.
Proceeds from this show will benefit the YMI educational programs.
Ebony Fashion Fair Chairperson LaFredia Brown-Morris says, “Asheville
will be a step ahead as the YMI presents the most sensational fashion
show in the area. We will see cutting edge trends and rare collections
of clothes for men and women. Asheville and surrounding communities
will find out what’s hip, what’s hot, and what’s now when the show hits
the Orange Peel on October 29.”
