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Students and volunteers strutted their stuff in the Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room in the Edmon Low Library Tuesday.
The visual merchandising and promotion class put on its annual fashion show as part of a project for the design merchandising class.
For the project, students in the class break up into different groups to make the fashion show happen.
There are groups that work with models, promotion and planning, Ashlee Goolsby, a senior from the promotion group, said.
Goolsby’s job has been to get word out about the show and help contact the media and get people to come to the show, she said.
The group in charge of the models dressed them and put on their makeup.
“We had to get models to do the show,” Lyndsay Cantrell, an apparel merchandising junior, said. “We had to get students that were apparel design majors to give us clothes.”
The theme of the show was “Fashion; read all about it,” which the library inspired, Goolsby said.
The show started with reserved looks showcasing a more reserved type of girl. It then progressed to a rock-n-roll and hip-hop attitude.
The girls at the beginning had their hair in buns and wore glasses, but when the music picked up and rock-n-roll style girls had fake tattoos and their hair came down from their ponytails, Megan Duplantis said.
The students spent most of their class time and a lot outside time working on this project, Cantrell said. She said the students have had it on their mind all semester.
Some groups had to start working on their parts sooner, Goolsby said. Groups in charge of sponsorship and the models had to start getting volunteers earlier to make the rest of the show possible.
“I was nervous because we had never full out practiced the show with the girls changing and doing makeup,” Duplantis said.
Goolsby said she was glad a lot of people from the College of Human Environmental Sciences came to the show. There were VIP cards set aside for advisers and teachers, so she was glad those places were filled.
“I had never been to a real fashion show,” Goolsby said. “When I was sitting there watching with the loud music, it had a real fashion show vibe to it.”
Not only did this fashion show help design students gain experience, but also raised money for the United Way, each ticket sold went straight to the organization.
The students had fundraisers at Chili’s and Chick-Fil-A to raise more money for their cause.
“I felt like all of the hard work came together,” Duplantis said. “I think it well for us putting every aspect together and having no experience.”
The theme of the show was “Fashion; read all about it,” which the library inspired, Goolsby said.
The show started with reserved looks showcasing a more reserved type of girl. It then progressed to a rock n’ roll and hip-hop attitude.
The girls at the beginning had their hair in buns and wore glasses, but when the music picked up and rock n’ roll style girls had fake tattoos and their hair came down from their ponytails, Megan Duplantis said.
The students spent most of their class time and outside time working on the project, Cantrell said. She said the students have had it on their mind all semester.
Some groups had to start working on their parts sooner, Goolsby said. Groups in charge of sponsorship and the models had to start getting volunteers earlier to make the rest of the show possible.
“I was nervous because we had never full out practiced the show with the girls changing and doing makeup,” Duplantis said.
Goolsby said she was glad a lot of people from the College of Human Environmental Sciences came to the show. There were VIP cards set aside for advisers and teachers, so she was glad those places were filled.
“I had never been to a real fashion show,” Goolsby said. “When I was sitting there watching with the loud music, it had a real fashion show vibe to it.”
Not only did this fashion show help design students gain experience but it also raised money for the United Way. Each ticket sold went straight to the organization.
The students had fundraisers at Chili’s and Chick-Fil-A to raise more money for the cause.
“I felt like all of the hard work came together,” Duplantis said. “I think it well for us putting every aspect together and having no experience.”
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