Do you dress for yourself or for others?
There’s a full-fledged ”Fashion Extravaganza” at the SUB on Friday, complete with models, music and food.
Coordinator Dre Curtis, a student at the School of Architecture, said the show will be a mélange of Albuquerque styles.
“One thing, too, about this fashion show — I’m bringing everyone together,” Curtis said. “I’m bringing my DJ, Vivitous Sessions models, Samuel S.Q. of Superior Quality Jersey; NMX Sports — they work with children in sports events in the community, Nicole and her skate shop, Silver, and her art gallery, Cirq. I am bringing a lot of entities like that, people in Albuquerque who are trying to do something to keep it family based.”
Designer Melisa Hart said this show will be more relaxed than other shows she’s worked in.
“It’s not that we’re not taking it seriously,” she said. “It’s going to be a well put together show, but at the same time, everybody sort of just walked into it like, ‘This is for fun. We’re going to have a good time. We’re going to have a great result.’”
Hart added that she liked working with the college crowd.
“I am actually closer in age to the college crowd than some of the other crowds, so I feel like I relate a little bit better,” she said. “I feel like things are a little more casual and a little more fun.”
The show intertwines elements of skateboarding and fashion, said Curtis, who also manages the local skate team Team Dank.
“It’s going to be the first fashion show that has a skateboard video of my skateboard team playing while the models are walking,” he said. “It’s going to be the first to have an art raffle. I am going to raffle all types of things. It’s going to be the first fashion show at UNM of this capacity, this level of quality.”
And with great quality comes great responsibility. Accordingly, the first act focuses entirely on educating people about New Mexican fashion, Curtis said.
“It’ll show the models’ personal clothing to show their personal style and how New Mexico college students, or New Mexico models in general, or New Mexico individuals, have their fashion sense,” he said.
Contributor Nicole Montes, owner of Silver Skate Shop, said fashion in Albuquerque tends to be a step behind.
“The fashions kind of get here later than everyone else,” she said. “I like people, like (Curtis), that are out there kind of doing their own thing, without really caring what’s going on. He definitely ends up being a very fashion-forward type of individual … It’s refreshing to have someone like him, or a handful of people, who are doing things in this town.”
There will be a halftime of sorts with a marching band from California, a pep rally and DJs. Act two features a combination of Team Dank’s skate video projected on the walls, music booming from the sound systems and models strutting down the walkway at the same time. It’s a lot to take in, Curtis said, but it works.
“I hope — and I don’t hope for a lot of things in life — but I hope that’s it’s a packed crowd, sold out,” he said. “I hope that everyone goes (and) enjoys their time, because it’s going to be from little kids to the more mature. So I hope that everyone gets the feeling that there’s a young man out there that does care about them, and he wants to see everyone happy. And that’s why he put this fashion show on.”
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*“Fashion Extravaganza”
SUB Ballrooms
Friday at 7 p.m.
$8 General Admission, $5 Students
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